resilienceSci on Twitter- resilienceSci: @owengaffney @GenAnthropocene And here's my former McGill colleague Bernhard Lehner's 200 yrs of world dam data https://t.co/dO4721U8U4 May 20, 2013
- resilienceSci: @owengaffney @GenAnthropocene Here's James Syvitski in 2011 of 200 yrs of USA dam construction http://t.co/qDj1nEpU9d May 20, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @erleellis: Abstract time for the 2014 Global Land Project Open Science Meeting in Berlin http://t.co/dn7Wo8I5y8 May 20, 2013
- resilienceSci: Reading UNEP's: #City-Level DeCoupling-urban resource flows & the governance of infrastructure #transitions http://t.co/9B3IFBoJ5R May 20, 2013
- resilienceSci: Agricultural regime shift in Texas: long term aquifer depletion+drought= loss of vast areas of farm land http://t.co/fsYyuaJxD5 #resilience May 20, 2013
- resilienceSci: Listening to 1st 1/2time seminar in SRC's sustainability science program: Rebecka Malinga on managing ecosystem services in ag landscapes May 20, 2013
- resilienceSci: Fun SRC discussion on useful approaches to linking models (ABMs to causal loops) to statistics (regressions to random forests) in #SES May 20, 2013
- resilienceSci: Diversity of and trends in inequality in OECD great to see important after tax & transfer inequality key http://t.co/hcIZIqGlbO May 20, 2013
- resilienceSci: Reforming Global trade networks - Public Outrage Over Factory Conditions Spurs Labor Deal #ranaplaza http://t.co/LKp8IEZiOP May 20, 2013
- 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
Category Archives: Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
Ecosystem services and poverty alleviation
Ecosystem services for poverty alleviation (ESPA) is an exciting new research programme funded by a consortium of development and science agencies in the UK. I’m on ESPA’s international advisory board and they asked me for some thoughts on the ecosystem … 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
Untangling the Environmentalist’s Paradox
My colleagues are I recently published a paper in BioScience, Untangling the Environmentalist’s Paradox: Why Is Human Well-being Increasing As Ecosystem Services Degrade? The paper originated from the involvement of the first four authors, my former PhD student Ciara Raudsepp-Hearne, … Continue reading
Posted in Ecological Economics, Ecosystem services, Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
Tagged agriculture, BioScience, Ciara-Radusepp Hearne, Elena Bennett, Garry Peterson, HDI, human development index, human wellbeing, Maria Tengö, Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, technology, Untangling the Environmentalist's Paradox: Why Is Human Well-being Increasing As Ecosystem Services Degrade?
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The “Ctrl+Alt+Del” of Global Change Sciences
Twitter|@vgalaz – This is one of those important things that seldom make the headlines. While climate change science has received considerable public attention, especially since the controversies around the IPCC scientific assessments, another fact is seldom, if ever, acknowledged – that … Continue reading
IPBES – a new assessment of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
Five years after the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, the first assessment of the Earth’s ecosystem services, was released the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the Intergovernmental Science Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) has been proposed to carry out … Continue reading
Four short links to new papers
Four interesting new papers – Parks & Poverty, Pleistocene extinctions, Evosystem services, and making better assessments 1) Parks can help local people. Protected areas reduced poverty in surrounding areas in Costa Rica and Thailand by K.S. Andam and other in … Continue reading
Agro-colonialism and/or Agricultural development?
The New York Times Magazine has an article by Andrew Rice Is There Such a Thing as Agro-Imperialism? on new mega-investments in agricultural land in Africa. This type of activity featured in the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment‘s TechnoGarden scenario as something … Continue reading
Resilience Assessment in Roghun, Tajikistan
Earlier this month Christo Fabricius and I were in Tajikistan to conduct participatory workshops with Mountain Societies Development Support Program (MSDSP) staff and community members from two rural villages in the District of Roghun as part of a resilience assessment … Continue reading
Legacy Futures: how past concepts of the future constrain current thinking
Futurist Jamais Cascio writes on his site Open the Future about how past thinking about the future constraints current thinking. I saw this first hand when I was working on the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment scenarios. Jamais writes: … we all … Continue reading
Steve Carpenter on Black Swans
Ecologist Steve Carpenter follows up on Don Ludwig’s comments on Nassim Nicholas Taleb‘s book The Black Swan: Both of Taleb’s books are highly entertaining. But he over-reaches. There are some odd mistakes. For example, he makes much of a supposed … Continue reading
Posted in Greenlash, Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
Tagged black swan, nassim taleb, Steve Carpenter
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