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Category Archives: Adaptation
NASEBERRY and 2-mode network analysis of a dynamic co-management process
A network approach to understand co-management, governance and complex social-ecological systems is becoming part of the toolbox used by researchers in our field, now recently in an article by Marín and Berkes (see below). A bunch of us is trying … Continue reading
Sea level rise estimates rising
There appears to be an increased need to worry about building resilience to sea level rise. From Stefan Rahmstorf‘s commentary A new view on sea level rise in Nature Reports Climate Change , 44 – 45 (doi:10.1038/climate.2010.29)
Rob Hopkins and Neil Adger on transition towns and resilience
Rob Hopkins founder of the Transition movement has a long interview with Neil Adger on resilience, peak oil, and climate adaptation on Transition Culture. Neil Adger is a professor in Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia and a … Continue reading
The Crises of Nature, The Nature of Crises
Maybe it’s just part of my personal PCSD (Post Copenhagen Stress Disorder), but it seems like one of the most interesting topics emerging in frontiers of the earth system governance agenda, is that of building global institutions able to deal … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptation, Big Back Loop
Tagged adaptiveness, Brian Walker, Center on International Cooperation, crisis, Oran Young
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Resilience Engineering
Resilience philosophy is spreading into many areas. Resilience Engineering is a collection of research organizations and laboratories that at least since 2006 is trying to re-define technology, people and risks in the light of resilience thinking. This is how they … Continue reading
Transition Towns and Resilience Thinking
The concept of resilience appears to be really spreading. One interesting group of people attempting to build resilience in specific communities is the Transition town movement. A global network of communities each of which is attempting to build their resilience … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptation, Cities, Networks, Reorganization
Tagged experiments, peak oil, Rob Hopkins, Transition Towns
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Tapping into the Collective Intelligence of the Global Environmental Change Community
Am I the only one feeling that the must be better ways to share research insights than just sitting down passively, and listening to a long list of key note speakers at a conference? Just what I thought. The Stockholm … Continue reading
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Are Epidemic Early Warnings, Really “Early” Warnings?
Information technological innovations seem to have played quite an important role in detecting early warnings of the current “new flu”, “swine flu” or H1N1. This topic is elaborated in today’s issue of New York Times. Apparently, WHO received the first warning … Continue reading
Should climate change research be 90 percent social science?
Nature’s Climate Feedback reports that Hans Joachim Schellnhuber in his talk at the Open Meeting of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP) urged social scientists to become more involved in climate change research: “Speaking as a … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptation, Ecological Management, Vulnerability
Tagged climate change, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, IHDP, social science
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Why do some countries adopt the Kyoto protocal and IPCC recommendations earlier than others?
How is science empowered in different countries? What are the actors and conflicts in different countries? Why is it that more democratic countries seem to adopt the Kyoto protocol earlier than others? The social sciences have a real role to … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptation, Networks
Tagged climate change, COMPON project, IHDP, Jeffrey Broadbent, Kyoto ratification, Philip Leifeld
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