resilienceSci on Twitter- resilienceSci: RT @BSRnews: To feed the world, don't grow more--use existing resources better. Great @ensia piece on #waste: http://t.co/pDaQ95JtGz by @Gl… May 25, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @MarkAndrachuk: "How many qualitative interviews is enough?" via @ECGGroup and @jenlove23 http://t.co/JWcrY5y9V2 #ecrchat #phdchat May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: Fun end to SRC Futures panel with a good discussion on ingredients & potential for a "good" #Anthropocene. May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @DianeOrihel: Reason triumphs, sometimes: #ELA Lake 227 was fertilized with #phosphorus this week, so this 44-year experiment continues!… May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @DianeOrihel: On May 7, scientists called on #DFO and #EC to reverse its decision to end world's longest #eutrophication exp't http://t.… May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: ESPA funded postdoctoral position for SRC lead project on poverty alleviation & coastal ecosystem services http://t.co/g60LUkWAV2 May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: @MichaelSchoon1 I put the "good" in quotes - but gave some criteria that could be used to define good May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @sthlmresilience: @MichaelSchoon1: indeed, that is a critical question and is being discussed during the panel May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @MichaelSchoon1: @vgalaz @sthlmresilience @FredrikMoberg @resilienceSci @gustafr good for whom? May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @sthlmresilience: So Prof Peterson says criteria for a good Anthropocene is that it is: Fair, Prosperous, Sustainable, Resilient and fun May 24, 2013
Category Archives: Cities
Haiti a year after the quake
The strong 2010 Haiti earthquake had its epicentre near Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital. It killed about 230,000 people, injured another 300,000, and made another 1,000,000 homeless a huge impact on a country of 10 million. The earthquake caused an estimated $10 … Continue reading
Posted in Cities, Inequality, Reorganization, Visualization, Vulnerability
Tagged earthquake, Haiti, Port-au-Prince
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Scale-crossing brokers: new theoretical tools to analyze adaptive capacity
Together with colleagues from Stockholm University we have just published an article in Ecology and Society called: Scale-crossing brokers and network governance of urban ecosystem services: the case of Stockholm Henrik Ernstson, Stephan Barthel, Erik Andersson and Sara T. Borgström, Ecology … Continue reading
Geoffrey West on Biological and Urban Allometry
Santa Fe Institute physicist Geoffrey West giving a talk about the allometry (scaling rules) of animals, organizations and cities (his work has been on resilience science before) – based on his great work with ecologists James Brown and Brian Enquist. … Continue reading
Posted in Cities, Networks
Tagged allometry, Geoffrey West, Santa Fe Institute, scaling, video
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Nile Delta at Night
Nile River Delta at Night from NASA’s EOS image of the day. They write: The Nile River and its delta look like a brilliant, long-stemmed flower in this astronaut photograph of the southeastern Mediterranean Sea, as seen from the International … Continue reading
Posted in Cities, Visualization
Tagged agriculture, irrigation, NASA EOS, Nile, Nile Delta, river, urban
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Bhopal 2011: Requiem & Revitalization
MJ writes about BHOPAL 2011: Requiem & Revitalization an International Students’ Workshop and Symposium, Bhopal, India January 23 – February 04, 2011. The workshop is organized by the School of Planning & Architecture, New Delhi, modern Asian Architecture Network (mAAN), … Continue reading
Resilience meets architecture and urban planning
- by Matteo Giusti [contact: matteo.giusti [at] gmail.com] – Does resilience thinking and architecture really mix? The answer is a clear “yes” if you ask urban planner Marco Miglioranzi, and Matteo Giusti, Master student at the Stockholm Resilience Centre. Together with the German based … Continue reading
Posted in Cities, Design, Ecosystem services, General, Networks, Visualization
Tagged architecture, dynamic design, planning, social-ecological systems, urban development
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Wilderness Downtown
Google Creative Lab has collaborated with the Montreal band, Arcade Fire to create a interactive web movie “The Wilderness Downtown” using Google earth. Director Chris Milk combines the nostalgia of the new Arcade Fire song “We Used to Wait” with … Continue reading
Posted in Cities, General, Visualization
Tagged arcade fire, art, Chris Milk, GIS, google, google earth, music, video
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Critical Reflections on resilience thinking in the Transition Movement
The Resilience Alliance website has pointed to an interesting working paper from Alex Haxeltine, and Gill Seyfang from the Tyndall Centre in the UK Transitions for the People: Theory and Practice of ‘Transition’ and ‘Resilience’ in the UK’s Transition Movement, … Continue reading
Posted in Big Back Loop, Cities, Networks
Tagged Alex Haxeltine, Gill Seyfang, Transition movement, Transition Towns, University of East Anglia
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