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: Links
Links: R, Thai floods, Mongolian Herders, Oberlin, and Ashby
1) A set of ‘cheat sheets’ for programming various things in R – data mining, multiple regression, time series analysis, etc. 2) From AlertNet Thailand needs long term strategy to deal with floods. 3) From Solutions magazine Mongolian herders practice … Continue reading
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Tagged adaptive co-management, cheat sheets, cybernetics, David Orr, herding, homeostat, Mongolia, Oberlin, pastoralism, R, Ross Ashby, systems, Thailand
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7 Billion
1) Guardian visualizes world population growth estimates from UN. Nice comparison of similar countries, but results for Africa don’t look right 314 million people in Tanzania in 2100? 140 million people in Niger in 2100? A ten fold increase in its … Continue reading
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Tagged 7 billion, demographics, futures, global population
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Links: Melting glaciers, floods, and species responses to climate change
1) BBC News – Rivers of ice: Vanishing glaciers.- David Breashears retraced the steps of early photographic pioneers such as Major E O Wheeler, George Mallory and Vittorio Sella – to try to re-take their views of breathtaking glacial vistas. … Continue reading
Posted in General, Links, Vulnerability
Tagged climate change, floods, glaciers, species range shift, Thailand
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Links – reviews
1. Cosma Shalizi discusses recent paper in nature on networks and their controlability, and responses to it. 2. Tom Slee reviews network sociologist Ducan Watts – everything is obvious if you already know the answer. 3. Misha Glenny, author of … Continue reading
Links: death threats, uprisings, social memory, nature, and LIDAR
1) From Nature News, death threats are being sent to Australian climate scientists, including our Stockholm Resilience Centre colleague Will Steffen. More information from Australia’s ABC news 1 & 2. 2) How well are researchers able to forecast popular uprisings? … Continue reading
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Tagged books, climate change, death threats, Greg Asner, Jay Ulfelder, revolutions, TC Boyle, will steffen
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Links: ECloud, wikipedia, housing bubble, Vaclav Smil, CO2, and ice
Recent links that I liked. 1) Video of ECloud sculpture at San Jose airport. 2) Academics working with wikipedia from Chronicle of Higher Education. 3) Interactive graph of Case-Schiller house price index for 20 cities in USA, showing the continued … Continue reading
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Tagged art, carbon dioxide, Case-Schiller, Ecloud, groundwater, housing bubble, land ice, Vaclav Smil, video
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Links: writing, activism, First Nations, Arctic, immigration, and walking
A selection of links I found interesting from around the web 1) How to write about your science from SciDev.Net 2) Rob Hopkins from Transition Towns writes about the tension between creating change and activism in Transition and activism: a … Continue reading
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Tagged activism, arctic, Canada, climate change, facebook, first nations, immigration, science writing, Toronto, Transition Towns, transport, walkable neighbourhoods
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Short links: ecopyschology, ecodance, and urban innovation
1) Miller-McCune writes Studies show nature restores our spirits, improves our thinking, keeps us healthier and probably even saner: …“Attention Restoration Theory” or ART, which posits that a walk in the woods helps refocus the mind and revive the spirit, … Continue reading
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