resilienceSci on Twitter- 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
- resilienceSci: RT @vgalaz: Abt to kick off final global future panel disc @sthlmresilience "Creating a Good Anthropocene?" ft @FredrikMoberg @resilienceSc… May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: @ideas4sust @JamilaHaider Here us the link to paper http://t.co/KE174yxhae in Revue d’ethnoécologie (paper is in English) May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: @drk75 Sounds very interesting! Hope you make good progress. May 24, 2013
Category Archives: Regime Shifts
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
Interesting recent resilience papers
A few recent papers on resilience are quite exciting. Below are brief pointers to them. Hopefully we will have more time to right about them in the future. Steve Carpenter and colleagues Early Warnings of Regime Shifts: A Whole-Ecosystem Experiment … Continue reading
Posted in Cities, Ecological Management, Regime Shifts
Tagged Bill Currie, JP Evans, Kendra McSweeney, Oliver Coomes, Steve Carpenter
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Resilience and Life in the Arctic
On Thursday, March 10, 2011, the Resilience Alliance Board voted to accept Eddy Carmack as the new Program Research Director. Eddy is a climate oceanographer studying water and people from oceans to estuaries as scientific lead for the Canada’s Three … Continue reading
Posted in Big Back Loop, Reflections, Regime Shifts, Reorganization
Tagged arctic, climate change, Eddy Carmack, Inuit, Long Exile, panarchy, Resilience Alliance
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Resilience 2011: notes on regime shifts and coupled social-ecological systems
The Resilience 2011 conference was a unique opportunity to meet people and new ways of thinking about resilience. This post is dedicated to the sessions I enjoyed the most, and my research interests biased me towards sessions on regime shifts … Continue reading
Does an increased awareness of catastrophic “tipping points”, really trigger political action?
This critical question relates to a suite of resilience related research fields, ranging from early warnings of catastrophic shifts in ecosystems, non-linear planetary boundaries, and the role of perceived crisis as triggers of transformations towards more adaptive forms of ecosystem … Continue reading
Posted in General, Reflections, Regime Shifts
Tagged climate change, crisis, philosphy, planetary boundaries, Political Science, Regime Shifts
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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
Mapping impact of snow and ice feedbacks on climate
NASA Earth Observatory Image of the day has some powerful figures created with data from a new paper by Mark Flanner and others Radiative forcing and albedo feedback from the Northern Hemisphere cryosphere between 1979 and 2008. in Nature Geoscience. … Continue reading
Posted in Regime Shifts, Visualization
Tagged albedo, climate change, cyrosphere, feedback, map, Mark Flanner, NASA Earth Observatory
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Reading through computer eyes
by Juan Carlos Rocha (PhD student at Stockholm Resilience Centre working on Regime Shifts) An N-gram is a sequence of characters separated by a space in a text. An N-gram may be a word, a number or a combination of … Continue reading
Posted in Ideas, Regime Shifts, Visualization
Tagged google, google labs, Jean-Baptiste Michel, Juan Carlos Rocha, N-gram, text analysis
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Seed’s global reset on tipping points and systematic risk
Seed magazine has a special issue on new approaches to interconnected and complex challenges. It also features interesting articles on TEEB and ecological economics, new modes of science, forecasting, tipping points and systematic risk. As well as, Carl Folke’s article … Continue reading
Food security and financial markets
FAO says that Food price volatility a major threat to food security: Concluding a day-long special meeting in Rome the experts recognized that unexpected price hikes “are a major threat to food security” and recommended further work to address their … Continue reading
Posted in Ecological Economics, Regime Shifts
Tagged agriculture, Bryce Cooke, C. Morgan, Christopher Gilbert, economics, FAO, feedbacks, finance, food crisis, Frederick Kaufman, IFPRI, Miguel Robles, speculation
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