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: Greenlash
China’s blue-green Olympics
Coastal eutrophication is an increasing problem in China, due to their massive use of fertilizers. Large blooms of blooms of blue-green algae are clogging parts of the sailing course at one of China’s Olympic sites in Quindoa. Algae are being … Continue reading
A giant pool of money flows into global agriculture
As part of its interesting Food Chain series, the New York Times writes Food Is Gold, So Billions Invested in Farming about how investment funds are pouring billions of dollars into agriculture. One investment bank has estimated that investments in … Continue reading
Posted in Ecological Economics, Ecosystem services, Greenlash, Regime Shifts
Tagged agriculture, food, fuel, globalization, investment funds, speculation
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Scenarios and Resilience
People or organizations can focus their effort on a narrow goal, or they can diversify the uses of resources to explore and innovate. It is hard to do both at the same time. This pattern arises in politics as well … Continue reading
The sustainability of improving living standards
Australian economist John Quiggin writes on The sustainability of improving living standards in a world of climate change. He discusses responses to the Stern Review on the economics of climate change. In particular, its conclusion that stabilizing at the atmosphere … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptation, Ecological Economics, Greenlash
Tagged Adaptation, climate change economics, john quiggin, Stern Review
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Climate change amplifies eutrophication
Hans Paerl and Jef Huisman have a perspective article in Science that reviews how climate change may promote blooms of cyanobacteria Blooms Like It Hot (320 (5872): 57 ): Nutrient overenrichment of waters by urban, agricultural, and industrial development has … Continue reading
Posted in Greenlash
Tagged agriculture, climate change, cyanobacteria, eutrophication, Hans Paerl, Jef Huisman, water
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Biofuel production vs. Aquatic ecosystems
Simon Donner writes about his new paper Corn-based ethanol production compromises goal of reducing nitrogen export by the Mississippi River (Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 10.1073/pnas.0708300105) on his weblog maribo: A new paper by my colleague Chris Kucharik and I … Continue reading
Posted in Ecosystem services, Greenlash, Regime Shifts
Tagged agriculture, biofuels, climate change, coastal eutrophication, Gulf of Mexico, Simon Donner, tradeoffs
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Nitrogen transfer from sea to land via commercial fisheries
Roxanne Maranger an ecologist at the University of Montreal and other have a neat paper in Nature Geoscience Nitrogen transfer from sea to land via commercial fisheries that shows that commercial fishing removed substantial amounts of nitrogen from coastal oceans. … Continue reading
Posted in Ecosystem services, Greenlash
Tagged eutrophication, fisheries, nitrogen, Roxanne Maranger
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Mapping Coastal Eutrophication
Current industrial agricultural practices produce a tradeoff between agricultural production and the quality of coastal ecosystems, because agricultural fertilizers that increase crop yields lead to the creation of low oxygen hypoxic areas in areas which receive a lot of nutrient … Continue reading
Posted in Ecosystem services, Greenlash, Regime Shifts, Visualization
Tagged eutrophication, map, tradeoff, WRI
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Climate foresight and building resilience
In a WorldChanging article Conservation Easements, Climate Foresight and Resilience Alex Steffen asks if “resilience” is a good way to describe the need for resilience: If the nature of even non-catastrophic climate change is to make the world much more … Continue reading
Fish Piracy Feeds the Global Rich
A New York Times article Europe’s Appetite for Seafood Propels Illegal Trade describes how fisheries collapse is leading roving bandits to scoop up the world’s valuable fish leaving little behind for local fishers: Fish is now the most traded animal … Continue reading