resilienceSci on Twitter- 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
- resilienceSci: Interesting lit review of trans-disciplinary environmental research from group @Leuphana_Uni http:/dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2013.04.008 May 22, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @sthlmresilience: Water in the #anthropocene: a global overview. New video via collaborative project Welcome to the Anthropocene: https:… May 21, 2013
- resilienceSci: Reading "Happiness is greater in natural environments" paper using phone app monitoring of subjective wellbeing http://t.co/2xb2nMikRs May 21, 2013
Tag Archives: biofuels
Hydrological impact of biofuels
R. Dominguez-Faus and others analyze the impact of different biofuels on water in the USA in their article in Envir. Science and Technology, The Water Footprint of Biofuels: A Drink or Drive Issue? (doi:10.1021/es802162x). The figure below, from the paper, … Continue reading
Holly Gibbs on biofuels and climate change
Science News reports on Holly Gibbs talk on biofuels and land clearing at AAAS: Two papers published last year suggested that clearing tropical forests to plant biofuel crops might actually worsen climate change, but that planting biofuels crops on “degraded” … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptation, Ecological Management, Ecosystem services
Tagged biofuels, climate change, Holly Gibbs, land clearing
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Joseph Stiglitz on reforming devlopment
Economist Joesph Stiglitz writes about how he thinks societies should shift their incentive structures to encourage investment in the sources of economic growth. On Comment is free he writes How to combat scarcity in an age of plenty: At the … Continue reading
Posted in Ecological Economics
Tagged agriculture, biofuels, econmics, institutional reform, Joesph Stiglitz
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Biofuel production vs. Aquatic ecosystems
Simon Donner writes about his new paper Corn-based ethanol production compromises goal of reducing nitrogen export by the Mississippi River (Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 10.1073/pnas.0708300105) on his weblog maribo: A new paper by my colleague Chris Kucharik and I … Continue reading
Posted in Ecosystem services, Greenlash, Regime Shifts
Tagged agriculture, biofuels, climate change, coastal eutrophication, Gulf of Mexico, Simon Donner, tradeoffs
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Food prices rising due increases in meat consumption and biofuels
The Economist (Dec 6th 2007) writes about how global agricultural prices are Cheap no more: …what is most remarkable about the present bout of “agflation” is that record prices are being achieved at a time not of scarcity but of … Continue reading
Posted in Ecological Economics, Ecosystem services
Tagged agriculture, biofuels, Economist, food prices, meat
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