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Category Archives: Visualization
Cultivating the spread of resilience thinking
It is great to see resilience thinking spreading. The cooperative Cultivate Ireland has created a new video on community resilience for its ‘resilience month.’ The film uses surfing change as a metaphor for different aspects of resilience building. The video … Continue reading
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Tagged Carnegie Trust, community resilience, Cultivate Ireland, resilience, transition town, video
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Loss of Old Arctic Sea Ice
Old sea ice, which had survived several summers, used to dominate the sea ice of the winter Arctic. However, today less than half of the sea ice at winter maximum has survived at least one summer. NOAA’s climatewatch has a … Continue reading
Yukon Delta from Space
A great picture of the organic complexity of the Yukon River Delta from NASA EOS. They write: The Yukon River originates in British Columbia, Canada, and flows through Yukon Territory before entering Alaska. In southwestern Alaska, the Yukon Delta spreads … Continue reading
More conceptual diagrams of social-ecological systems
Following up on my post yesterday on conceptual diagrams of social-ecolgoical systems (SES), below are some more SES conceptual diagrams from the journal Ecology and Society. I did a google search that found a bunch of nice and not so … Continue reading
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Tagged conceptual models, diagrams, ecology and society, social-ecological systems
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Conceptualizing Social-Ecological Systems
I’ve recently been teaching about social-ecological systems and because I think it is important to conceptualize systems graphically these discussions caused me to reflect on the conceptual diagrams of social-ecological systems Conceptualizing something as a social-ecological system hides some aspects … Continue reading
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Tagged conceptual diagrams, social-ecological systems, system diagram, systems
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Scanning the Internet for Ecological Early Warnings
If Google Flu Trends can, why can’t we? The possibility to mine large amounts of individual reports and local news posted on the Internet as early warning signs of pending epidemic outbreaks has been a part of global epidemic governance … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, early warning, forest, internet, invasive species, land use, monitoring
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5 000 000 Books
Erez Lieberman Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel discuss Google Labs’ NGram Viewer. In their TED talk what can you learn from 5 million books?
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Tagged books, Erez Lieberman Aiden, google, Jean-Baptiste Michel, Ngram
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if history = people x years
From Two thousand years in one chart | The Economist. SOME people recite history from above, recording the grand deeds of great men. Others tell history from below, arguing that one person’s life is just as much a part of … Continue reading
Dammed Anthropocene
James Syvitski a geology professor at the University of Colorado created this 200-year compilation of dams built in the USA. He used it to illustrated his talk on the age of the human-shaped Earth at the Geological Society of London … Continue reading
Jellyfish
From Monterey Bay Aquarium a beautiful jellyfish video – there’s no such thing as a jellyfish. By all accounts, jellyfish are creatures that kill people, eat microbes, grow to tens of meters, filter phytoplankton, take over ecosystems, and live forever. … Continue reading