resilienceSci on Twitter- resilienceSci: Instability & surprising synchrony of ecosystem services in #urban planning http://t.co/Toygu75g93 May 22, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @Revkin: I chat with @MarkTercek on range of approaches needed for a thriving #Anthropocene: http://t.co/lp6Ov501L3 (video) @aspeninstit… May 22, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @macroresilience: believe it or not, best book on immigration & problems of integration I've read: Zlatan Ibrahimovic's autobiography ht… May 22, 2013
- 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
Tag Archives: climate change
Controversies around the Social Cost of Carbon
What is the social cost of carbon? That is,the monetary value of the long-term damages done by greenhouse gas emissions? Frank Ackerman from the Stockholm Environment Institute U.S. Center, recently gave a fascinating talk at the Stockholm Resilience Centre where … Continue reading
Posted in Ecological Economics, Reflections, Tools, Vulnerability
Tagged climate change, economics, Frank Ackerman, FUND model, models, SEI, social cost of carbon
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Resilience and Life in the Arctic
On Thursday, March 10, 2011, the Resilience Alliance Board voted to accept Eddy Carmack as the new Program Research Director. Eddy is a climate oceanographer studying water and people from oceans to estuaries as scientific lead for the Canada’s Three … Continue reading
Posted in Big Back Loop, Reflections, Regime Shifts, Reorganization
Tagged arctic, climate change, Eddy Carmack, Inuit, Long Exile, panarchy, Resilience Alliance
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Does an increased awareness of catastrophic “tipping points”, really trigger political action?
This critical question relates to a suite of resilience related research fields, ranging from early warnings of catastrophic shifts in ecosystems, non-linear planetary boundaries, and the role of perceived crisis as triggers of transformations towards more adaptive forms of ecosystem … Continue reading
Posted in General, Reflections, Regime Shifts
Tagged climate change, crisis, philosphy, planetary boundaries, Political Science, Regime Shifts
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Mapping impact of snow and ice feedbacks on climate
NASA Earth Observatory Image of the day has some powerful figures created with data from a new paper by Mark Flanner and others Radiative forcing and albedo feedback from the Northern Hemisphere cryosphere between 1979 and 2008. in Nature Geoscience. … Continue reading
Posted in Regime Shifts, Visualization
Tagged albedo, climate change, cyrosphere, feedback, map, Mark Flanner, NASA Earth Observatory
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Mapping Greenland’s melt
The same arctic weather patterns that have been cooling N. Europe and the Eastern USA have been warming Greenland as is shown in NASA’s image of the day Record Melting in Greenland during 2010: 2010 was an exceptional year for … Continue reading
Clive Hamilton on climate denialism and social-ecological systems and
Clive Hamilton is an author and Professor of Public Ethics at Charles Stuart University and Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics in Australia. He has been writing about the ethics of climate change, and climate denial. In his interesting talk, … Continue reading
Posted in Ideas
Tagged Albert Camus, climate change, climate denial, Clive Hamilton, denialism, RSA, social-ecological systems, video
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Is promoting climate change disinformation a new type of crime against humanity?
Donald Brown,a professor of law and environmental ethics at Penn State University,on his blog Climate Ethics wonders whether funding climate disinformation is A New Kind of Crime Against Humanity?. He writes: On October 21, 2010, the John Broder of the … Continue reading
Posted in Ecological Economics
Tagged climate change, Climate Ethics, disinformation, Donald Brown, law
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Corals and reality of climate change
Simon Donner writes on Maribo about climate change and coral reefs: In 2007, my colleagues and I published a study examining of the likelihood of the 2005 “hot spot” occurring with and without human influence on the climate system. The … Continue reading
Institutional Dynamics and Emergent Patterns in Global Governance
Can environmental regimes really be viewed as complex dynamic systems? Oran Young makes a nice effort in his latest book “Institutional Dynamics – Emergent Patterns in International Environmental Governance” (MIT Press, 2010). While the study of environmental and resource regimes … Continue reading
Posted in General
Tagged book, climate change, earth system governance, international affairs, Oran Young
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Homer-Dixon on Risk, Uncertainty and Crises
Think Globally Radio recently posted a number of great interviews. Here is one interesting one with political scientist, and renown author Thomas Homer-Dixon from University of Waterloo (Canada) – one of the world’s leading scholars on the intersection of environment, security … Continue reading