resilienceSci on Twitter- resilienceSci: Instability & surprising synchrony of ecosystem services in #urban planning http://t.co/Toygu75g93 May 22, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @Revkin: I chat with @MarkTercek on range of approaches needed for a thriving #Anthropocene: http://t.co/lp6Ov501L3 (video) @aspeninstit… May 22, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @macroresilience: believe it or not, best book on immigration & problems of integration I've read: Zlatan Ibrahimovic's autobiography ht… May 22, 2013
- 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
Category Archives: Scenarios
William Gibson on the future
Novelist William Gibson interviewed by BBC News: The rapid rate of technological and social change means the future comes crashing towards us faster than ever before, says visionary science fiction author William Gibson. “In the 1960s I think that in … Continue reading
Andrew Gelman’s Statistical Modeling weblog
Well known statistician Andrew Gelman and his colleagues write an informative and interesting weblog Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science on the quantitative side of the social sciences (which has a lot that ecologists or sustainability scientists can learn … Continue reading
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Tagged and Social Science, Andrew Gelman, Causal Inference, Statistical Modeling
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Why are there so few positive stories about the future?
Today’s stories about the future seem to be pretty bleak. Recent big apocalyptic novels have been McCarthy’s The Road, Atwood’s Year of the Flood, but I can’t think of many influential positive environmental futures after Ecotopia in the early 1970s. … Continue reading
Reflecting the Niger Delta: Tolu Ogunlesi on Tings Dey Happen
On 3 Quarks Daily Tolu Ogunlesi writes about American Dan Hoyle’s Tings Dey Happen. Dan Hoyle was inspired to write a one man play about Nigeria and the oil industry after being a Fulbright scholar in at the University of … Continue reading
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Tagged art, Dan Hoyle, Nigeria, oil, theatre, Tings Dey Happen, Tolu Ogunlesi, video
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Cormac McCarthy and Santa Fe Institute
From the New Scientist I learned that American novelist Cormac McCarthy has a long history as a writer in residence at the Santa Fe Institute. Interviewing Joe Penhall the screenwriter of the movie based on McCarthy’s post-apocalyptic novel The Road: … Continue reading
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Tagged apocalypse, Cormac McCarthy, Oprah, Santa Fe Institute, Stephen Lansing, The Road
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Kim Stanley Robinson on writing about Utopias
In an interview with Terry Bisson, science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson talks about the importance of writing about utopias: Terry Bisson: My favorite of that series is Pacific Edge, the utopia of the series. What’s yours? Are there any … Continue reading
Resilience economics: a scenario
Jamais Cascio presents Resilience Econmics as a scenario of an economy in 2030. He also presents two alternatives – Just in Time Socialism and Robonomics in his column in the business magazine Fast Company. Jamais writes: Resilience Economics United States: … Continue reading
Ian McEwan’s climate change novel
Bestselling, and Booker prize winning novelist, Ian McEwan talks about his forthcoming novel on climate change in McEwan’s novel take on climate change: “It took me a long time to find a way into this subject – I’ve been thinking … Continue reading
Robert Charles Wilson on The Ruins of Tomorrowland
Canadian Science fiction Robert Charles Wilson writes about shifts in the consensus vision of the future in The Ruins of Tomorrowland This week ABC broadcast a two-hour documentary special called Earth 2100 that used art, narrative and interviews to sketch … Continue reading
Ballard and architecture
Noted science fiction author J.G. Ballard died April 19, 2009. on Omnivoracious Geoff Manaugh, of BLDG BLOG, offers an architectural appreciation – Between the Tower and the Parking Lot: A Spatial Appreciation of J.G. Ballard: J.G. Ballard, who died on … Continue reading