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: Ecological Management
James C Scott on the value of an anarchist squint
Political scientist James C. Scott, author of a series of ground breaking books that explore some of political and anthropological aspects of resilience has a new book out Two Cheers for Anarchism: Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity, and Meaningful Work and … Continue reading
Posted in Ecological Management, Ideas
Tagged Anarchism, book, James C. Scott, Two Cheers for Anarchism
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Tim Daw on ecosystem services tradeoffs
In the video below Tim Daw, from the University of East Anglia’s School of International Development and the Stockholm Resilience Centre, explains his project Participatory Modelling of Wellbeing Tradeoffs in Coastal Kenya. The project, in which I’m also participating, has … Continue reading
Posted in Ecological Management, Ecosystem services, Scenarios
Tagged ecosystem service tradeoffs, fisheries, human well being, Kenya, poverty, Tim Daw, video
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No surprise to Buzz Holling: Non-linear response of seabirds to forage fish depletion
Guest post from Henrik Österblom from the Stockholm Resilience Centre. Basic ecology rests firmly on a number of basic assumptions. Some of these assumptions, specifically how predators interaction with their prey, were developed by a key figure in the history … Continue reading
Posted in Ecological Management
Tagged Buzz Holling, ecology, functional response, Henrik Österblom, predation, sea birds
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Climate Stablization Wedges – an update, responses and critiques
A well know proposed strategy for reducing carbon emissions was the 2004 “wedges” paper in by ecologist Stephen Pacala and engineer Robert Socolow (Science DOI: 10.1126/science.1100103). For more on wedges see Carbon Mitigation Initiative website at Princeton. Robert Socolow has … Continue reading
Stafford Beer on Ross Ashby
Here is some old time systems theory from my Swedish summer reading. Stafford Beer on Ross Ashby‘s Law of Requisite Variety in his paper “The Viable System Model: Its Provenance, Development, Methodology and Pathology” in The Journal of the Operational … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptation, Ecological Management, Ideas
Tagged Andrew Pickering, cybernetics, requisite variety, Ross Ashby, Stafford Beer
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Three new positions in ecosystem services research at McGill University
We’re looking to hire three new people to join our team working on the role of landscape structure and biodiversity in the provision of ecosystem services. The new positions include a postdoc to work on developing models of ecosystem services, … Continue reading
Posted in Ecological Management, Ecosystem services, General, Networks
Tagged job ad, jobs, McGill university, Montérégie, PhD
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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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Revisiting Ostrom’s Design principles for community-based Natural Resource Management
In her talk at Resilience 2011, Elinor Ostrom recommended a recent paper by her colleagues that reviews 91 studies that empirically evaluated her design principles for for resilient institutions for the management of common pool resources. Cox, M., G. Arnold, … Continue reading
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