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: black swan
Tom Peters, Black Swans, and Resilience
Business writer Tom Peters (he co-wrote 1980s business bestseller In search of excellence) writes on his blog about Resilience and Black Swans: I am mesmerized by Black Swans. We must live day to day, year to year, gettin’ on with getting’ … Continue reading
Steve Carpenter on Black Swans
Ecologist Steve Carpenter follows up on Don Ludwig’s comments on Nassim Nicholas Taleb‘s book The Black Swan: Both of Taleb’s books are highly entertaining. But he over-reaches. There are some odd mistakes. For example, he makes much of a supposed … Continue reading
Posted in Greenlash, Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
Tagged black swan, nassim taleb, Steve Carpenter
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Don Ludwig on the Black Swan
The applied mathematician and scholar of uncertainty Don Ludwig reflects on the financial crisis, resilience, and The Black Swan: This is a sort of book review. By now you may have heard of The Black Swan: the impact of the … Continue reading
Posted in Regime Shifts
Tagged black swan, Don Ludwig, financial crisis, nassim taleb, suprise
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Financial resilience – Taleb and Mandelbrot reflect on crisis
Nassim “Black Swan” Taleb writes on Edge about an unwillingness or consider and remember extreme events leads to financial disaster in The Fourth Quadrant: A map of the limits of statistics. Statistical and applied probabilistic knowledge is the core of … Continue reading
Posted in Ecological Management, Regime Shifts
Tagged black swan, crisis, financial resilience, fractal, mandelbrot, nassim taleb
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Taleb on the failures of financial economics
Nassim Nicholas Taleb writes in Financial Times that because financial economics focus on normal and marginal behaviour at the expense of shocks and market reorganizations it is a pseudo-science hurting markets: I was a trader and risk manager for almost … Continue reading
Posted in Reorganization, Vulnerability
Tagged black swan, economics, finance, portfolio, risk, shocks, taleb
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Black Swans: expecting the unexpected
Nassim Nicholas Taleb uses the term Black Swan to identify significant unexpected events. Holling made some similar points from a different perspective in his 1973 paper on resilience and his 1986 paper the resilience of terrestrial ecosystems; local surprise and … Continue reading