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Category Archives: Networks
Ecology & Society papers that best connect different author groups
As part of a project I am working on, I did a quick network analysis of co-authorship structure among papers in Ecology and Society. Based on this preliminary analysis, the papers below are the papers that most connect different research … Continue reading
Posted in Networks, Visualization
Tagged bibliometrics, Ecology & Society, networks analysis
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Ecology and Society’s most ‘typical’ paper
The journal Ecology and Society publishes a lot of work related to resilience and social-ecological systems. As part of a project I am working on, I did a quick network analysis of co-authorship structure among papers in E&S, and based … Continue reading
Paul Gilding talks about Limits to Growth
The 40th anniversary of Limits to Growth is a good time to share Paul Gilding‘s TED talk – the Earth is Full. Paul Gilding is an australian environmentalist and entrepeneur who recently wrote the Great Disruption, a good book based … Continue reading
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Tagged Great Disruption, Limits to Growth, Paul Gilding, TED talk, video
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Development with Fossil or Solar Energy?
The price of solar power has been rapidly decling over the past several decades (~ 7%/year decline in US$/watt or a cost halving every 10 years ). This drop , combined with peristently high oil prices is producing some interesting … Continue reading
Posted in Design, Networks, Scenarios
Tagged energy, generators, grid, moore's law, solar power
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Stabilizing Collectives in the Study of Transformation: Instead of “key-individuals”
This deserves perhaps an even longer blog post, but I wrote this quickly as an appreciation to the previous blog by Juan Carlos Rocha. The previous blog post puts focus on a quite problematic nexus within social-ecological studies, and management … Continue reading
What Are Leaders Really For?
A week ago I had an interesting discussion with Jon Norberg, a professor in Systems Ecology here at Stockholm University, about leadership. Jon is working on, among other things, an agent based model about how leaders influence opinion change in … Continue reading
Posted in Big Back Loop, Networks, Regime Shifts, Reorganization
Tagged Duncan Watts, Jon Norberg, leaders, leadership, Occupy Wall Street, transformation
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Visualizations of Adaptive Governance
Inspired by a recent course I taught, and my colleague’s Garry Peterson’s search for visualizations of social-ecological systems, (also here), I found myself looking for illustrations of adaptive governance – that is, modes of governance that play out at multiple … Continue reading
Social Networks and Natural Resource Management – New Book!
A new book has just been released that should interest the readers of this blog. The book has been excellently edited by Örjan Bodin and Christina Prell and is entitled “Social Networks and Natural Resource Management: Uncovering the Social Fabric … Continue reading
Links – reviews
1. Cosma Shalizi discusses recent paper in nature on networks and their controlability, and responses to it. 2. Tom Slee reviews network sociologist Ducan Watts – everything is obvious if you already know the answer. 3. Misha Glenny, author of … Continue reading