resilienceSci on Twitter- resilienceSci: For Swedish speakers- Swedish EPA interviews Carl Folke about ecosystem services. Podcast from @Miljodep: http://t.co/vPzNAlolN6 May 22, 2013
- resilienceSci: Rate of zoonotic disease emergence is closely tied to ag-environmental interactions, but limited ability to predict http://t.co/3eagecRaGH May 22, 2013
- resilienceSci: Impact of 2008 crisis on inequality across OECD: Income inequality rose but taxes & transfers mitigated impact http://t.co/RQBOEurjQT May 22, 2013
- resilienceSci: Impact of 2008 crisis on poverty across OECD: Poorer households did worse than rich, children worse than elderly http://t.co/RQBOEurjQT May 22, 2013
- resilienceSci: Diverse & strong PNAS special feature on agricultural innovation to protect environment - papers are open access http://t.co/MCSZIfQm60 May 22, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @EcologyLetters: Response diversity to land use occurs but does not consistently stabilise ecosystem services provided by native po... h… May 22, 2013
- resilienceSci: Bridging cultural divide between qual & quant methods in social sciences http://t.co/i82qoWOnIg Expect useful for Social-ecological science May 22, 2013
- resilienceSci: Interesting lit review of trans-disciplinary environmental research from group @Leuphana_Uni http:/dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2013.04.008 May 22, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @sthlmresilience: Water in the #anthropocene: a global overview. New video via collaborative project Welcome to the Anthropocene: https:… May 21, 2013
- resilienceSci: Reading "Happiness is greater in natural environments" paper using phone app monitoring of subjective wellbeing http://t.co/2xb2nMikRs May 21, 2013
Category Archives: New Orleans
Haiti, Disaster Sociology, Elite Panic, and Looting
In her book, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster writer Rebecca Solnit describes how people responded to disasters – from San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake to the Halifax explosion of 1917 to New … Continue reading
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Tagged disaster sociology, Haiti, Hurricane Katrina, Lee Clarke, Rebecca Solnit
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Dams limit wetland restoration in Mississippi Delta
Cornelia Dean in the New York Times writes Dams Are Thwarting Louisiana Marsh Restoration, Study Says. She describes recent research by Michael Blum and Harry Roberts Drowning of the Mississippi Delta due to insufficient sediment supply and global sea-level rise (doi:10.1038/ngeo553) … Continue reading
Kim Stanley Robinson on nature, architecture, and society
Geoff Manaugh recently interviewed ecological science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson about ecology, architecture and socieities on BLDGBLOG. Manaugh writes: Robinson’s books are not only filled with descriptions of landscapes – whole planets, in fact, noted, sensed, and textured down … Continue reading
Posted in Cities, New Orleans, Reorganization, Scenarios
Tagged architecture, BLDGBLOG, Geoff Manaugh, kim stanley robinson, science fiction
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Lessons of Katrina
It was roughly two years ago that New Orleans spectactularly failed to cope, technologically and socially, with Hurricane Katrina. Over 1,8oo people died, neighbourhoods and livlihoods were destroyed, and the storm is estimated to have caused over $80 billion in … Continue reading
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Mississippi meanders
NASA’s Earth Observation newsroom presents satelite images to go with the geological map of Mississippi Meanders used to make the top image of this blog. NASA explains: As it winds from Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico, the Mississippi River … Continue reading
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Ecological Engineering and New Orleans
Robert Costanza, William Mitsch, and John Day, three ecologists with long experience with wetlands, New Orleans, and ecological economics, have an editorial in the journal Ecological Engineering on Creating a sustainable and desirable New Orleans (pdf). Their arguement is a … Continue reading
Posted in Ecological Economics, Ideas, New Orleans, Reorganization, Vulnerability
Tagged John Day, Robert Costanza, William Mitsch
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Rebuilding New Orleans: Don’t build on quicksand
Down to Earth points to a Washington Post editorial (June 7th) that writes: … the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers admitted responsibility for much of the destruction of New Orleans. … As the Corps’ own inquiry found, the agency committed … Continue reading
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Hurricanes, Risk Models, and Insurance
Roger Pielke Jr has an interesting post Are We Seeing the End of Hurricane Insurability? on the Prometheus weblog. The insurance industry uses models of expected losses to set rates for catastrophic losses – from things such as huricanes. However, … Continue reading
Posted in Ecological Economics, Ideas, New Orleans, Reorganization, Vulnerability
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Mapping Sea Level Rise
Jonathan Overpeck and others have a paper Paleoclimatic Evidence for Future Ice-Sheet Instability and Rapid Sea-Level Rise in Science (24 March 2006) that suggests that sea level rise due to anthropogenic climate change could occur much faster than people have … Continue reading
Posted in Greenlash, Ideas, New Orleans, Tools, Visualization, Vulnerability
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Ruin and Recovery
Ruin & Recovery is a special series of newspaper articles in the New Orleans Times-Picayune on how other cities responded to disasters: Galveston, TX – Galveston almost went under in the hurricane of 1900, but city leaders saved it, and … Continue reading
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