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	<title>Resilience Science</title>
	<link>http://rs.resalliance.org</link>
	<description>coping with ecological surprise in a human dominated world</description>
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		<title>International Foundation for Science is looking for a Director</title>
		<description><![CDATA[International Foundation for Science is looking for a Stockholm based Director, their job ad is below:
The International Foundation for Science (IFS) is a non-governmental organisation with the mandate to contribute to the strengthening of capacity in developing countries. IFS awards research grants and provides capacity enhancing supporting services to young scientists, working on research projects [...]


Related posts:<ol><li><a href='http://rs.resalliance.org/2009/04/06/stockholm-resilience-centre-is-looking-for-seven-new-phd-students/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Stockholm Resilience Centre is looking for Seven new PhD students'>Stockholm Resilience Centre is looking for Seven new PhD students</a></li>
<li><a href='http://rs.resalliance.org/2008/10/01/phd-position-at-stockholm-resilience-centre-2/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: PhD position at Stockholm Resilience Centre'>PhD position at Stockholm Resilience Centre</a></li>
<li><a href='http://rs.resalliance.org/2009/10/01/new-academic-positions-in-international-development-at-univ-of-e-anglia/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: New academic positions in International Development at Univ. of E. Anglia'>New academic positions in International Development at Univ. of E. Anglia</a></li>
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		<link>http://rs.resalliance.org/2010/03/09/international-foundation-for-science-is-looking-for-a-director/</link>
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		<title>How much is African poverty really falling?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Martin Ravallion, Director of the Development Research Group of the World Bank,responds to Maxim Pinkovskiy and Xavier Sala-i-Martin&#8217;s NBER paper that estimates a decline in African poverty.  He agrees that poverty is decreasing, but believes they are overstating their case.
He writes Is   African poverty falling? on the World Banks&#8217; Africa can end poverty [...]


Related posts:<ol><li><a href='http://rs.resalliance.org/2010/03/04/african-poverty-is-falling/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: African Poverty is Falling'>African Poverty is Falling</a></li>
<li><a href='http://rs.resalliance.org/2008/05/24/absolute-poverty-in-china-higher-but-going-down-faster-than-previously-estimated/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Absolute poverty in China: Higher, but going down faster than previously estimated'>Absolute poverty in China: Higher, but going down faster than previously estimated</a></li>
<li><a href='http://rs.resalliance.org/2006/12/11/we-can-create-a-poverty-free-world/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: We can create a poverty-free world'>We can create a poverty-free world</a></li>
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		<link>http://rs.resalliance.org/2010/03/09/is-african-poverty-falling/</link>
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		<title>Chile &#8211; destroyed and reorganizing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An earthquake and following tsunamis destroyed great parts of Chile, killing people, ripping apart families, and affecting infrastructure, business, politics, animals and ecological relations. This is my short report on thoughts and fears of the reorganization phase, based on following Chilean television and Swedish news flows.
The proportions of the destruction due to the tsunami that [...]


Related posts:<ol><li><a href='http://rs.resalliance.org/2008/05/17/using-disasters-for-systemic-change/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Using Disasters for Systemic Change'>Using Disasters for Systemic Change</a></li>
<li><a href='http://rs.resalliance.org/2010/01/29/sidney-mintz-on-how-haitis-history-is-ignored/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Sidney Mintz on how Haiti&#8217;s history is ignored'>Sidney Mintz on how Haiti&#8217;s history is ignored</a></li>
<li><a href='http://rs.resalliance.org/2008/05/18/sichuan-postcard-after-the-earthquake/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Peter Hessler&#8217;s Sichuan Postcard: After the Earthquake'>Peter Hessler&#8217;s Sichuan Postcard: After the Earthquake</a></li>
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		<link>http://rs.resalliance.org/2010/03/08/chile-destroyed-and-reorganizing/</link>
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		<title>Over fertilizing the world</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Three faces of global over fertilization from agriculture in China and the USA, and its complex effects on food webs.
1) Chinese farmers are acidifying there soil by over applying fertilizer.  Acidic soils impede crop growth and amplify the leaching of toxins.  Since the early 1980s, pH has declined from 0.2 to 0.8 across China, mostly [...]


Related posts:<ol><li><a href='http://rs.resalliance.org/2009/10/28/world-distribution-of-income/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: World distribution of income'>World distribution of income</a></li>
<li><a href='http://rs.resalliance.org/2008/02/01/nitrogen-transfer-from-sea-to-land-via-commercial-fisheries/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Nitrogen transfer from sea to land via commercial fisheries'>Nitrogen transfer from sea to land via commercial fisheries</a></li>
<li><a href='http://rs.resalliance.org/2005/04/04/predators-shifting-subsidies-and-regime-shifts/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Predators, shifting subsidies, and regime shifts'>Predators, shifting subsidies, and regime shifts</a></li>
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		<link>http://rs.resalliance.org/2010/03/08/over-fertilizing-the-world/</link>
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		<title>Naomi Oreskes on Merchants of Doubt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Historian of science Naomi Oreskes recently gave a talk at Brown University, based on her new book, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming, about how right wing scientists founded the George Marshall Institute which has become a key hub for successfully spreading [...]


Related posts:<ol><li><a href='http://rs.resalliance.org/2009/07/01/paul-krugman-on-betraying-the-planet/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Paul Krugman on Betraying the Planet'>Paul Krugman on Betraying the Planet</a></li>
<li><a href='http://rs.resalliance.org/2009/09/27/uncertainty-and-climate-change/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Uncertainty and climate change'>Uncertainty and climate change</a></li>
<li><a href='http://rs.resalliance.org/2009/03/18/a-report-from-copenhagen/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: A report from Copenhagen'>A report from Copenhagen</a></li>
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		<link>http://rs.resalliance.org/2010/03/05/naomi-oreskes-of-merchants-of-doubt/</link>
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		<title>Dennis Meadows on Limits to Growth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A video of Dennis Meadows, co-author of Limits to Growth, from the 2009 World Economic Forum meetings in Davos meeting where he reflects on economic growth, oil, and decline.

via the Oil Drum


Related posts:Dennis Meadows awarded Japan Prize for work on Limits to Growth
Richard Alley explains how CO2 is the climate&#8217;s &#8220;biggest control knob&#8221;
The Environmental Limits [...]


Related posts:<ol><li><a href='http://rs.resalliance.org/2009/01/31/dennis-meadows-awarded-japan-prize-for-work-on-limits-to-growth/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Dennis Meadows awarded Japan Prize for work on Limits to Growth'>Dennis Meadows awarded Japan Prize for work on Limits to Growth</a></li>
<li><a href='http://rs.resalliance.org/2009/12/29/richard-alley-explains-how-co2-is-the-climates-biggest-control-knob/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Richard Alley explains how CO2 is the climate&#8217;s &#8220;biggest control knob&#8221;'>Richard Alley explains how CO2 is the climate&#8217;s &#8220;biggest control knob&#8221;</a></li>
<li><a href='http://rs.resalliance.org/2005/04/01/the-environmental-limits-to-globalization/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: The Environmental Limits to Globalization'>The Environmental Limits to Globalization</a></li>
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		<link>http://rs.resalliance.org/2010/03/05/dennis-meadows-on-limits-to-growth/</link>
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		<title>Resilience Theory in Colombia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://twitter.com/vgalaz
Does resilience thinking have any impact at all on the ground? These two very interesting examples came in via Lorena Franco Vidal at the NGO Fundación Humedales de Colombia. In January of this year, the mentioned NGO decided to initiate a climate vulnerability and resilience assessment of the Fúquene wetland complex in the east of the Colombian Andes [...]


Related posts:<ol><li><a href='http://rs.resalliance.org/2009/05/19/machine-fetishism-money-and-resilience-theory/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Machine Fetishism, Money and Resilience Theory'>Machine Fetishism, Money and Resilience Theory</a></li>
<li><a href='http://rs.resalliance.org/2006/01/24/resilience-surrogates-a-special-feature-in-ecosystems/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Resilience Surrogates: a special feature in Ecosystems'>Resilience Surrogates: a special feature in Ecosystems</a></li>
<li><a href='http://rs.resalliance.org/2008/05/26/resilience-qa/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Resilience Q&#038;A'>Resilience Q&#038;A</a></li>
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		<link>http://rs.resalliance.org/2010/03/04/resilience-theory-in-colombia/</link>
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		<title>African Poverty is Falling</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new NBER working paper African Poverty is  Falling&#8230;Much Faster than You Think! from economists Xavier  Sala-i-Martin and Maxim Pinkovskiy argues that African poverty has been rapidly falling across Africa since 1995.  They use methods they use to look at global income distributions to show that recent economic growth has reduced rather than [...]


Related posts:<ol><li><a href='http://rs.resalliance.org/2010/03/09/is-african-poverty-falling/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: How much is African poverty really falling?'>How much is African poverty really falling?</a></li>
<li><a href='http://rs.resalliance.org/2009/10/28/world-distribution-of-income/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: World distribution of income'>World distribution of income</a></li>
<li><a href='http://rs.resalliance.org/2009/12/31/modelling-a-social-ecological-poverty-trap-due-to-infectious-disease/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Modelling a social-ecological poverty trap due to infectious disease'>Modelling a social-ecological poverty trap due to infectious disease</a></li>
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		<link>http://rs.resalliance.org/2010/03/04/african-poverty-is-falling/</link>
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		<title>Arctic Futures ReOrient</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Nature Reports Climate Change, Keith Kloor reviews Cleo Paskal&#8217;s new book Global Warring: How Environmental, Economic, and  Political Crises Will Redraw the World Map.  He writes:

Paskal convincingly argues that short-sighted domestic  and foreign policies are already eroding “the West&#8217;s position in the  global balance of power”. Exhibit A is the Arctic, [...]


Related posts:<ol><li><a href='http://rs.resalliance.org/2008/03/08/political-economic-implications-of-arctic-melting/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Social Implications of Arctic Melting'>Social Implications of Arctic Melting</a></li>
<li><a href='http://rs.resalliance.org/2008/09/09/a-transforming-arctic/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: A transforming Arctic'>A transforming Arctic</a></li>
<li><a href='http://rs.resalliance.org/2009/09/13/methane-in-the-arctic/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Methane in the Arctic'>Methane in the Arctic</a></li>
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		<link>http://rs.resalliance.org/2010/03/03/arctic-futures-reorient/</link>
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		<title>Cyber-Environmental Politics?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[twitter.com/vgalaz
Google and renewable energy? Hackers, deforestation and carbon emission rights? This might sound like an odd mix of events, but something is definitely in pipeline. Global environmental change and rapid information technological change have for a long time been viewed as parallel, and decoupled global phenomena. A number of events in the last month indicate [...]


Related posts:<ol><li><a href='http://rs.resalliance.org/2009/12/15/satellites-google-and-the-politics-of-co2-monitoring/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Satellites, Google and the Politics of CO2-Monitoring'>Satellites, Google and the Politics of CO2-Monitoring</a></li>
<li><a href='http://rs.resalliance.org/2009/11/09/transition-towns-and-resilience-thinking/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Transition Towns and Resilience Thinking'>Transition Towns and Resilience Thinking</a></li>
<li><a href='http://rs.resalliance.org/2009/03/20/using-the-internet-to-provide-early-warning-of-ecological-change/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Using the internet to provide early warning of ecological change'>Using the internet to provide early warning of ecological change</a></li>
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		<link>http://rs.resalliance.org/2010/02/25/cyber-environmental-politics/</link>
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		<title>A history of Stommel diagrams</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tiffany Vance and Ronald Doel have traced the history of the Stommel diagram from physical oceanography into biology, in their 2010 paper Graphical Methods and Cold War Scientific Practice: The Stommel Diagram’s Intriguing Journey from the Physical to the Biological Environmental Sciences in Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences (DOI: 10.1525/hsns.2010.40.1.1.)
The paper provides an rich [...]


Related posts:<ol><li><a href='http://rs.resalliance.org/2007/05/14/the-how-and-why-of-linking-future-scenarios-across-scales/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: The how and why of linking future scenarios across scales'>The how and why of linking future scenarios across scales</a></li>
<li><a href='http://rs.resalliance.org/2008/07/09/the-long-history-of-human-environment-interactions-in-china/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: The long history of human-environment interactions in China'>The long history of human-environment interactions in China</a></li>
<li><a href='http://rs.resalliance.org/2008/07/04/intensive-agriculture%e2%80%99s-ecological-surprises/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Intensive agriculture’s ecological surprises'>Intensive agriculture’s ecological surprises</a></li>
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		<link>http://rs.resalliance.org/2010/02/24/a-history-of-stommel-diagrams/</link>
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		<title>Why are there so few positive stories about the future?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s stories about the future seem to be pretty bleak.  Recent big apocalyptic novels have been McCarthy&#8217;s The Road, Atwood&#8217;s Year of the Flood, but I can&#8217;t think of many influential positive environmental futures after Ecotopia in the early 1970s.
On Tor.com, science fiction novelist and critic Jo Walton speculates about why there are not [...]


Related posts:<ol><li><a href='http://rs.resalliance.org/2005/09/24/art-of-climate-change-telling-stories-to-understand-the-future/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Art of Climate Change: telling stories to understand the future'>Art of Climate Change: telling stories to understand the future</a></li>
<li><a href='http://rs.resalliance.org/2008/12/08/legacy-futures-how-past-concepts-of-the-future-constrain-current-thinking/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Legacy Futures: how past concepts of the future constrain current thinking'>Legacy Futures: how past concepts of the future constrain current thinking</a></li>
<li><a href='http://rs.resalliance.org/2007/09/11/imagining-future-cites/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Imagining Future Cites'>Imagining Future Cites</a></li>
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		<link>http://rs.resalliance.org/2010/02/23/why-are-there-so-few-positive-stories-about-the-future/</link>
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