resilienceSci on Twitter- resilienceSci: RT @leafwarbler: An open letter from Prof. Madhav Gadgil to the Kasturirangan panel: Shocking betrayal on Western Ghats http://t.co/UWiwwX1… May 18, 2013
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- resilienceSci: 3rd Int. Science & policy conference on the resilience of social & ecological systems May 4-8 2014 Montpellier France http://t.co/JU84cvVJaV May 17, 2013
- resilienceSci: @corrinecash_ I'm ecological, but I care about how people shape and are shaped by ecosystems & therefore I'm interested in social science May 17, 2013
- resilienceSci: Resilience 2014 conference May 4-8, 2014 in Montpellier, France is now accepting abstracts & session proposals http://t.co/Si6ynkEjAV May 17, 2013
- resilienceSci: @ECGGroup @corrinecash_ You could also see my collection of papers on resilience & political ecology on Menedely http://t.co/YFDHqH4i63 May 17, 2013
- resilienceSci: @resilience_RA SRC MS student My S. will hand in her MS thesis next week can send to you for comments + feedback May 17, 2013
- resilienceSci: Listening to talk on successful Swedish urban resilience assessment using @resilience_RA workbook + other methods http://t.co/nj9ZiDgXQQ May 17, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @stepscentre: Video: Andy Stirling on @stepscentre methods and methodology http://t.co/nwi0rhezA2 #sss13 May 17, 2013
- resilienceSci: Sustainability people the new UN Office for Sustainable Development is looking for a "head of office" https://t.co/QvAnPLJ8Fg May 17, 2013
Category Archives: Vulnerability
Twenty two countries in protracted crisis
FAO reports that: Twenty-two countries are … are in what is termed a protracted crisis, FAO said in its “State of Food Insecurity in the World 2010” hunger report, jointly published today with the World Food Programme (WFP). Chronic hunger … Continue reading
Homer-Dixon on Risk, Uncertainty and Crises
Think Globally Radio recently posted a number of great interviews. Here is one interesting one with political scientist, and renown author Thomas Homer-Dixon from University of Waterloo (Canada) – one of the world’s leading scholars on the intersection of environment, security … Continue reading
Flooding in Pakistan from the ground and from space
From the Big Picture photoblog from the Boston Globe Severe flooding in Pakistan and Continuing Pakistani floods. Also National Geographic. Views from space of Flooding in Pakistan from NASA EOS.
Posted in Visualization, Vulnerability
Tagged big picture, flood, NASA EOS, natural disaster, Pakistan, photos
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A Pakistans flood FAQ
Kate Larkin writes Pakistan’s floods: is the worst still to come? in Nature News What is the main cause of the intense rainfall? It is weather, not climate change, that is to blame, according to meteorologists. An unusual jet stream … Continue reading
How resilient is the Pakistan government to floods?
Pakistani journalist Ahmed Rashid, author of many books on the geopolitics of central Asia, writes about the continuing floods in Pakistan in the New York Review of Books. He argues that the floods have the potential to further weaken the … Continue reading
Posted in Inequality, Vulnerability
Tagged Ahmed Rashid, disaster sociology, natural disaster, Pakistan, Rashid
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Disasters 2000-2009
The Centre for Research on Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) maintains a global database on disasters. In collaboration with the new United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) they summarize disasters in the past decade. They state that in the … Continue reading
Dead Ahead: Similar Early Warning Signals of Change in Climate, Ecosystems, Financial Markets, Human Health
What do abrupt changes in ocean circulation and Earth’s climate, shifts in wildlife populations and ecosystems, the global finance market and its system-wide crashes, and asthma attacks and epileptic seizures have in common? According to a paper published this week in … Continue reading
Posted in Regime Shifts, Vulnerability
Tagged anthropocene, climate change, eutrophication, financial crisis, Martin Scheffer, resilience
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Should climate change research be 90 percent social science?
Nature’s Climate Feedback reports that Hans Joachim Schellnhuber in his talk at the Open Meeting of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP) urged social scientists to become more involved in climate change research: “Speaking as a … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptation, Ecological Management, Vulnerability
Tagged climate change, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, IHDP, social science
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Slow variables that shape bushfire resilience
Creating the perfect firestorm on the BBC writes about two of the slow variables that produce a fire situation: climate and fuel accumulation: Current climate projections point to an increase in fire-weather risk from warmer and drier conditions. Two simulations … Continue reading
Posted in Ecological Management, Vulnerability
Tagged Australia, backfires, bushfire, David Packham, fire, Gary Morgan
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Stephen Pyne on the Australian fires
American fire historian Stephen Pyne comments in The Australian on the current Australian fires in Bushfire leader becomes laggard: Australia knows better. It developed many key concepts of fire ecology and models of bushfire behaviour. It pioneered landscape-scale prescribed burning … Continue reading