resilienceSci on Twitter- 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
- resilienceSci: RT @vgalaz: Abt to kick off final global future panel disc @sthlmresilience "Creating a Good Anthropocene?" ft @FredrikMoberg @resilienceSc… May 24, 2013
Category Archives: Reorganization
Connecting the Instability of Markets and Ecosystems – C.S. Holling and Hyman Minsky
Both markets and ecosystems can, and have, been viewed as being shaped by feedback processes that push them towards a steady state – in markets this is the “invisible hand” – in ecology it is “succession.” However, what has been … Continue reading
A history of bicycle transformation in the Netherlands
Cool video about how a movement for social-ecological transformation took advantage of a window of opportunity. Dutch cyclist organizations pushing for new cycling infrastructure in the Netherlands. Read more on the Bicycling Dutch website in this post. An interesting post compares … Continue reading
Posted in Cities, Reorganization
Tagged bicycles, infrastructure, Netherlands, social movement, transformation
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What Are Leaders Really For?
A week ago I had an interesting discussion with Jon Norberg, a professor in Systems Ecology here at Stockholm University, about leadership. Jon is working on, among other things, an agent based model about how leaders influence opinion change in … Continue reading
Posted in Big Back Loop, Networks, Regime Shifts, Reorganization
Tagged Duncan Watts, Jon Norberg, leaders, leadership, Occupy Wall Street, transformation
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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
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
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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Disaster and disaster – Junot Diaz on Haiti
Junot Diaz, author of the fantastic novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, writes about Haiti’s earthquake in Apocalypse: What Disasters Reveal. The experience of Port au Prince was quite difference from Lyttleton, New Zealand response to their own … Continue reading
Posted in Big Back Loop, Cities, Inequality, Reorganization, Vulnerability
Tagged apocalypse, disaster, earthquake, Haiti, hope, Junot Diaz, transformation
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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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briefly noted: disruptive technological change
1) The Atlantic on the Digital Underground of North Korea 2) New York Times Armies of Expensive Lawyers, Replaced by Cheaper Software about innovations in AI that allow textual analysis of large sets of documents. The article discusses two approaches … Continue reading
Posted in Reorganization
Tagged AI, China, internet, Rebecca MacKinnon, technology, text analysis
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