resilienceSci on Twitter- resilienceSci: RT @grescoe: China's largest cities where the action is—but China Daily reports air, water quality make them barely liveable. http://t.co/G… May 23, 2013
- resilienceSci: Resilience and Recovery of Overexploited Marine Populations http://t.co/vZ58gqG6ZQ Fish resilient but too much fishing erodes resilience May 23, 2013
- resilienceSci: Changes in leading causes of death, years of life lost, & DALYs from 1990->2010 http://t.co/SKR2FTgtpa #GBD #visualization May 23, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @rhizomia: Guatemalan Rios Montt's conviction of genocide annulled - 'technical reasons. Una vergüenza http://t.co/Vwd7LO6dNW May 23, 2013
- resilienceSci: Instability & surprising synchrony of ecosystem services in #urban planning http://t.co/Toygu75g93 May 22, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @Revkin: I chat with @MarkTercek on range of approaches needed for a thriving #Anthropocene: http://t.co/lp6Ov501L3 (video) @aspeninstit… May 22, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @macroresilience: believe it or not, best book on immigration & problems of integration I've read: Zlatan Ibrahimovic's autobiography ht… May 22, 2013
- resilienceSci: For Swedish speakers- Swedish EPA interviews Carl Folke about ecosystem services. Podcast from @Miljodep: http://t.co/vPzNAlolN6 May 22, 2013
- resilienceSci: Rate of zoonotic disease emergence is closely tied to ag-environmental interactions, but limited ability to predict http://t.co/3eagecRaGH May 22, 2013
- resilienceSci: Impact of 2008 crisis on inequality across OECD: Income inequality rose but taxes & transfers mitigated impact http://t.co/RQBOEurjQT May 22, 2013
Category Archives: Ecosystem services
Readings on ES in a Social-Ecological Context (with a resilience emphasis)
Recently I developed a short reading list for PhD students working on ecosystem services at the Stockholm Resilience Centre. This list seeks to cover and introduce a broad area of ecosystem service research with a focus on understanding ecosystem services … Continue reading
Tim Daw on ecosystem services tradeoffs
In the video below Tim Daw, from the University of East Anglia’s School of International Development and the Stockholm Resilience Centre, explains his project Participatory Modelling of Wellbeing Tradeoffs in Coastal Kenya. The project, in which I’m also participating, has … Continue reading
Posted in Ecological Management, Ecosystem services, Scenarios
Tagged ecosystem service tradeoffs, fisheries, human well being, Kenya, poverty, Tim Daw, video
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Can Geoengineering and Planetary stewardship be combined?
Should we deliberately intervene in the Earth system to counteract the negative impacts of climate change? Certainly not, if we ask prominent Earth system scholar Will Steffen. In a recent article published in Ambio , Steffen and colleagues argue that … Continue reading
Posted in Ecosystem services, General, Reflections
Tagged Geoengineering, planetary boundaries, planetary stewardship
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Conceptualizing Social-Ecological Systems
I’ve recently been teaching about social-ecological systems and because I think it is important to conceptualize systems graphically these discussions caused me to reflect on the conceptual diagrams of social-ecological systems Conceptualizing something as a social-ecological system hides some aspects … Continue reading
Posted in Ecosystem services, Visualization
Tagged conceptual diagrams, social-ecological systems, system diagram, systems
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Ecosystem services and poverty alleviation
Ecosystem services for poverty alleviation (ESPA) is an exciting new research programme funded by a consortium of development and science agencies in the UK. I’m on ESPA’s international advisory board and they asked me for some thoughts on the ecosystem … Continue reading
A new global database of plant traits – TRY
An ongoing research programme in ecology is to use species traits to model ecosystem dynamics and function. Most of the effort on traits has focussed on plants. TRY is an exciting new global database of plant traits that has managed … Continue reading
Posted in Ecosystem services
Tagged botany, database, ecology, ecosystem function, Global Change Biology, plant traits
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Three new positions in ecosystem services research at McGill University
We’re looking to hire three new people to join our team working on the role of landscape structure and biodiversity in the provision of ecosystem services. The new positions include a postdoc to work on developing models of ecosystem services, … Continue reading
Posted in Ecological Management, Ecosystem services, General, Networks
Tagged job ad, jobs, McGill university, Montérégie, PhD
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Chicago invests in resilient ecological infrastructure
Leslie Kaufman in the New York Times has a good article, A City Prepares for a Warm Long-Term Forecast, that reviews Chicago’s efforts to improve its ecological infrastructure. The article describes the city’s approach to climate change adaptation: As a … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptation, Cities, Ecosystem services
Tagged chicago, chicago climate action, climate change, paved space, Seoul, trees, water
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Nobel Symposium in Stockholm
I just argued the human role in the Anthropocene with Will Steffen at the 2011 Nobel Laureate Symposium in Stockholm. In a mock court, in front of a jury of Nobelists, I successfully argued that: 1) Humanity has pushed the … Continue reading
Steve Carpenter wins Stockholm Water Prize
Big congratulations to my former post-doc advisor Steve Carpenter on winning the 2011 Stockholm Water Prize. It is well deserved as Steve has done a huge amount of really innovative work on ecosystem dynamics, ecological economics, large scale ecosystem experiments, … Continue reading