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: Reflections
Cityscapes :: An urban magazine from the global south :: New issue #3: The Smart City?
How to think cities anew? When what we are seeing are not new londons, parises, new-yorks or even tokyos growing, we need to start re-thinking what urbanization and urbanism is about. This is when we need a magazine like Cityscapes. … Continue reading
Posted in Cities, General, Inequality, Reflections
Tagged architecture, Postcolonial critique
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Can Geoengineering and Planetary stewardship be combined?
Should we deliberately intervene in the Earth system to counteract the negative impacts of climate change? Certainly not, if we ask prominent Earth system scholar Will Steffen. In a recent article published in Ambio , Steffen and colleagues argue that … Continue reading
Posted in Ecosystem services, General, Reflections
Tagged Geoengineering, planetary boundaries, planetary stewardship
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Interdisciplinary science – what should we measure, and why?
Research impact assessments of academic environments with bibliometric indicators are becoming increasingly important. Not only do they define where you are placed in international rankings of research institutes, but they are also being used as a basis for distribution of … Continue reading
The tragedy of a common currency
The current crisis of the Euro emphasizes some basic lessons from the study of resilience of dynamic systems. Attributes of complex systems that enhance resilience are diversity, redundancy and modularity. There is a cost of maintaining resilience. The decision to … Continue reading
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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Information and communication technologies in the Anthropocene
UPDATED: Slides from the talks at the end of this blogpost The use of social media for political mobilization during the political uprisings in Northern Africa and the Middle East during 2010 and 2011; digital coordination of climate skeptic networks … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptation, General, Networks, Reflections, Visualization
Tagged Arizona, climate change, IDRC, internet, mobile phones, Resilience 2011, SEI, Stockholm Resilience Centre
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Controversies around the Social Cost of Carbon
What is the social cost of carbon? That is,the monetary value of the long-term damages done by greenhouse gas emissions? Frank Ackerman from the Stockholm Environment Institute U.S. Center, recently gave a fascinating talk at the Stockholm Resilience Centre where … Continue reading
Posted in Ecological Economics, Reflections, Tools, Vulnerability
Tagged climate change, economics, Frank Ackerman, FUND model, models, SEI, social cost of carbon
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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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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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Impacts of the 2010 tsunami in Chile
UPDATE: Here is a link to a video to Prof. Castilla’s talk (via @sthlmresilience) 03:34 a.m. February 27th 2010. Suddenly, a devastating earthquake and a series of tsunamis hits the central–south coast of Chile. An earthquake so powerful (8.8 on … Continue reading
Posted in General, Networks, Reflections, Reorganization, Vulnerability
Tagged Chile, earthquake, local knowledge, social memory, social network analysis, tsunami
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