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Category Archives: Ideas
Richard Wilkinson gives a TED talk on impact of inequality
Richard Wilkinson, well known British public health researcher and co-author of the recent influential book on economic inequality the Spirit Level (which has been previously mentioned on Resilience Science) gives a TED talk about his research on the social impact … Continue reading
Posted in Ecological Economics
Tagged Equality trust, Inequality, Richard Wilkinson, Spirit Level, video
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Zizek interviewed by Al Jazeera on world protests and Occupy Wall Street
Zizek interviewed by Al Jazeera about the Occupy Wall Street movement, claiming that “The [liberal capitalist] system has lost its self-evidence, its automatic legitimacy. And now the field is open. This is a very important achievement.” Continue reading
Posted in Cities, Inequality, Reflections, Regime Shifts
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SFU Convocation Address – Global Resilience Requires Novelty
[On Oct 7th, 2011 Buzz Holling was awarded a Honorary Doctorate of Science at Simon Fraser University, in Vancouver, Canada. Below is his convocation address - editor] Sixty years ago I was where you graduates are now, but graduating from … Continue reading
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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Climate Stablization Wedges – an update, responses and critiques
A well know proposed strategy for reducing carbon emissions was the 2004 “wedges” paper in by ecologist Stephen Pacala and engineer Robert Socolow (Science DOI: 10.1126/science.1100103). For more on wedges see Carbon Mitigation Initiative website at Princeton. Robert Socolow has … Continue reading
Resilience of Totnes
‘Town’ series on BBC2 examines the role of towns in the UK. The last show in the series looks at the resilience of Totnes, the founding site of rapidly growing Transition Towns movement, which is represented locally by Transition Town … Continue reading
Posted in Cities, Reorganization
Tagged Dartington Hall, Totnes, Town, Transition Towns
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Analysis of impact of recent global crises on development
In the Guardian’s Poverty Matters blog Lawrence Haddad, director of the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) in the UK, writes What impact have the global crises had on development thinking? He summarizes some of the findings from an effort at … Continue reading
New resilience theory related book Phase Transitions
Ricard Solé, the well known complex systems scientist, has a new book Phase Transitions (here’s Table of Contents). It sounds interesting especially since Solé’s work frequently includes ecological and evolutionary dynamics. The book looks very similar it is to Marten … Continue reading
Biotic simplification and ecological reorganization
From a powerful review paper in Science on the Trophic Downgrading of Planet Earth (DOI: 10.1126/science.1205106) James A. Estes and many other ecological stars documents the strong role of apex consumers (i.e. big herbivores like elephants) and top predators (e.g. … Continue reading
Posted in Regime Shifts, Reorganization
Tagged apex consumers, ecology, James Estes, top predators, trophic cascade, Trophic Downgrading
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A parallel world
From David Denby’s review of Soderbergh’s new movie Contagion in the New Yorker: “Contagion” is, of course, a 9/11-anniversary movie, though probably not one that the public was expecting. Soderbergh appears to be saying, “I’ll show you something far worse … Continue reading
Posted in General, Regime Shifts
Tagged 9/11, contagion, movies, rationalism, reality, WHO
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