Tag Archives: Buzz Holling

No surprise to Buzz Holling: Non-linear response of seabirds to forage fish depletion

Guest post from Henrik Österblom from the Stockholm Resilience Centre. Basic ecology rests firmly on a number of basic assumptions.  Some of these assumptions, specifically how predators interaction with their prey, were developed by a key figure in the history … Continue reading

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Resilience and Euro – diversity

On MacroEconomic Resilience ex-banker Ashwin Parameswaran draws upon Holling’s pathology of natural resource management and the work of Hyman Minsky (a connection I’ve mentioned previously and Ashwin has explored extensively – see here and here) to write about The Resilience Stability Tradeoff: Drawing Analogies … Continue reading

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Stockholm Resilience Centre talks on iTunes

Sturle Hauge Simonsen from Stockholm Resilience Centre has told me that you can freely download Centre seminars and presentations from iTunes. Many shorter presentations are available on YouTube. Speakers in the iTunes talks includes a diverse group of well known … Continue reading

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Building Resilience in Ontario – more than metaphor or arcane concept

A few weeks ago I stumbled upon the Environmental Commissioner of Ontario’s latest annual report entitled “Building Resilience”. This was a pleasant surprise. Off the top, the Commissioner’s report credits Buzz Holling and the ecological origins of resilience and offers … Continue reading

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Comparing Panarchy and Pace Layering

On the EcoTrust web magazine People and Place Howard Silverman compares Stewart Brand‘s concept of Pace Layering with Panarchy in Panarchy and Pace in the Big Back Loop: “The back loop is the time of the Long Now,” writes Resilience … Continue reading

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Whole Earth Catalog web archive

The entire 35-year archive of Whole Earth Catalogs, along with its Supplements, and descendant magazines – CoEvolution Quarterly, and Whole Earth are now available on the web.  The Whole Earth Catalog,was published in 1968 by Stewart Brand, it and its … Continue reading

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Buzz Holling’s Volvo Environment Prize video

Buzz Holling was recently in Stockholm to receive the 2008 Volvo Environment Prize. Volvo made a short video about Buzz and his work which is embedded below.

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Buzz Holling wins 2008 Volvo Environmental Prize

Buzz Holling, the father of resilience science and the founder of the Resilience Alliance (and contributor to this blog) has won the 2008 Volvo Environment Prize. Congratulations Buzz! On the Prize website they write the justification for the award: “The … Continue reading

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3 questions for Buzz Holling

From Louise Hård af Segerstad of Alabeco in Sustainable Development Update (2/2008), Three questions and three answers from Buzz Holling: How would you explain resilience to a ten-year-old? If I was a ten year old I would understand resilience more … Continue reading

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Novelty Needed for Sustainable Development – Resilience 2008

The Stockholm Resilience Centre has released two press releases on the conclusion of Resilience 2008. The first Novelty thinking key to sustainable development reports on the concluding panel of the conference in which Elinor Ostrom, Sverker Sörlin, Carole Crumley, Line … Continue reading

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