resilienceSci on Twitter- 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
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- 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
- resilienceSci: Waking up & getting ready for some network analysis with some Friday Fugazi. http://t.co/McdntugfT9 May 17, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @RZondervan: Ironic: anthropocene journal & no SocSci domain MT @erika_vons: Elementa-Science of Anthropocene acceptng submissions http:… May 16, 2013
Tag Archives: agriculture
Food security and financial markets
FAO says that Food price volatility a major threat to food security: Concluding a day-long special meeting in Rome the experts recognized that unexpected price hikes “are a major threat to food security” and recommended further work to address their … Continue reading
Posted in Ecological Economics, Regime Shifts
Tagged agriculture, Bryce Cooke, C. Morgan, Christopher Gilbert, economics, FAO, feedbacks, finance, food crisis, Frederick Kaufman, IFPRI, Miguel Robles, speculation
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Untangling the Environmentalist’s Paradox
My colleagues are I recently published a paper in BioScience, Untangling the Environmentalist’s Paradox: Why Is Human Well-being Increasing As Ecosystem Services Degrade? The paper originated from the involvement of the first four authors, my former PhD student Ciara Raudsepp-Hearne, … Continue reading
Posted in Ecological Economics, Ecosystem services, Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
Tagged agriculture, BioScience, Ciara-Radusepp Hearne, Elena Bennett, Garry Peterson, HDI, human development index, human wellbeing, Maria Tengö, Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, technology, Untangling the Environmentalist's Paradox: Why Is Human Well-being Increasing As Ecosystem Services Degrade?
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Brazilian agriculture
1)The Economist writes about the success of large scale Brazil agriculture in Brazilian agriculture: The miracle of the cerrado. The article concludes: The bigger question for them is: can the miracle of the cerrado be exported, especially to Africa, where … Continue reading
Aquatic Dead Zones
I’ve published several links to global maps of coastal hypoxia. Now, NASA has produced a new map of global hypoxic zones, based on Diaz and Rosenberg’s . Spreading Dead Zones and Consequences for Marine Ecosystems. in Science, 321(5891), 926-929. NASA’s … Continue reading
Posted in Ecosystem services, Visualization
Tagged agriculture, Diaz, hypoxia, map, NASA, nitrogen, Phosphorus
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Short links: agricultural statistics
1) FAO is granting free and open access to its central data repository, FAOSTAT, the world’s largest and most comprehensive statistical database on food, agriculture, and hunger. 2) FAO statistics on production of crops, fruits, livestock, oil crops, and others … Continue reading
Food history: Social change & tortilla technology
On the weblog Edible Geography Nicola Twilley presents a talk by and profile of Rachel Laudan, a historian of food, at Fueling Mexico City: A Grain Revolution: All cities require fuel: oil, gas, electricity, and so on. What I want … Continue reading
Posted in Ecological Management, Ideas
Tagged agriculture, Columbian exchange, food history, Rachel Laudan
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GMO crops and shifting agricultural food webs
A recent paper by Yanhui Lu and others in Science (DOI: 10.1126/science.1187881) shows how ecological impacts of Bt cotton at the landscape level have lead to a surge in pests. In northern China, the cotton crop is 95% Bt cotton. … Continue reading
Posted in Ecological Management, Greenlash
Tagged agriculture, Bacillus thuringiensis, Bt cotton, China, GMO, Kongming Wu, mirid bug, pesticide, Yanhui Lu
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Agriculture – breeding, biodiversity and biomass
1) Lack of research to improve yields in non-industrial agriculture. The Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog comments on What are breeders selecting for?: A new paper by H.E. Jones and colleagues compares cultivars of different ages under organic and non-organic systems, and … Continue reading
Ecological memory of Amazonian agriculture
I just wrote this note on Faculty of 1000 on the paper (doi:10.1073/pnas.0908925107) I mentioned the other day: Pre-Columbian agricultural landscapes, ecosystem engineers, and self-organized patchiness in Amazonia McKey D, Rostain S, Iriarte J, Glaser B, Birk JJ, Holst I, … Continue reading
Posted in General
Tagged agriculture, Amazon, Doyle McKey, ecosystem engineers, French Guiana, map, pre-Columbian, self-organization, Suriname
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Short Links: Networks, Amazonian historical ecology, and development data
Two recent papers and comments + a new data site: 1) Tom Fiddaman on a new Nature paper (doi:10.1038/nature08932) from Eugene Stanley‘s lab on cascading failure in connected networks, that shows that feedbacks between connected networks can destabilize two stable … Continue reading
Posted in Ecological Management, Networks
Tagged agriculture, Amazon, Brandon Keim, Doyle McKey, Eugene Stanley, self-organization, World Bank
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