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
- resilienceSci: RT @BrankoMilan: (1/2) What 3 countries were greatest econ failures of XXc? #Congo, #Haiti, #Niger. Their today's GDPpc is <1/2 of what it … May 18, 2013
- 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: Networks
Links: writing, activism, First Nations, Arctic, immigration, and walking
A selection of links I found interesting from around the web 1) How to write about your science from SciDev.Net 2) Rob Hopkins from Transition Towns writes about the tension between creating change and activism in Transition and activism: a … Continue reading
Posted in Cities, General, Links, Networks
Tagged activism, arctic, Canada, climate change, facebook, first nations, immigration, science writing, Toronto, Transition Towns, transport, walkable neighbourhoods
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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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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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Steven Johnson on the source of good ideas
Two short videos by science writer Steven Johnson on his book Where good ideas come from: the natural history of innovation. An animated promotional video for his book: And him giving a TED talk. Steve Johnson has posted some of … Continue reading
Posted in Ideas, Networks
Tagged complex systems, Cosma Shalizi, innovation, Steven Johnson, video
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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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Seed’s global reset on tipping points and systematic risk
Seed magazine has a special issue on new approaches to interconnected and complex challenges. It also features interesting articles on TEEB and ecological economics, new modes of science, forecasting, tipping points and systematic risk. As well as, Carl Folke’s article … Continue reading
Scale-crossing brokers: new theoretical tools to analyze adaptive capacity
Together with colleagues from Stockholm University we have just published an article in Ecology and Society called: Scale-crossing brokers and network governance of urban ecosystem services: the case of Stockholm Henrik Ernstson, Stephan Barthel, Erik Andersson and Sara T. Borgström, Ecology … Continue reading
Hive plots for visualizing complex networks
Martin Krzywinski from British Columbia Genome Sciences Centre proposes a new type of network layout to reduce ‘hairball’ mess of standard network visualizations Hive Plots – Linear Layout for Network Visualization, in which nodes are located on on radially distributed … Continue reading
Geoffrey West on Biological and Urban Allometry
Santa Fe Institute physicist Geoffrey West giving a talk about the allometry (scaling rules) of animals, organizations and cities (his work has been on resilience science before) – based on his great work with ecologists James Brown and Brian Enquist. … Continue reading
Posted in Cities, Networks
Tagged allometry, Geoffrey West, Santa Fe Institute, scaling, video
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Eric Berlow responds on networks & system analysis
In his TED talk Eric Berlow presented a causal loop diagram (CLD) of the US army’s Afghanistan Counter-Insurgency (COIN) strategy and then used its network structures and features to simplify it. I am interested in combining network and systems analysis … Continue reading
Posted in Networks, Visualization
Tagged causal loop diagram, Eric Berlow, TED, Tom Fiddaman
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