Tag Archives: crisis

Crisis since 2008

Posted on December 16, 2011 by Garry Peterson

According to google searches and news, since 2008 the news has been writing much more about crisis, but people haven’t been searching for it so much. a search for financial crisis and euro crisis leads to a more striking result.

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Does an increased awareness of catastrophic “tipping points”, really trigger political action?

Posted on March 30, 2011 by Victor Galaz

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 →

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Twenty two countries in protracted crisis

Posted on October 6, 2010 by Garry Peterson

FAO reports that: Twenty-two countries are … are in what is termed a protracted crisis, FAO said in its “State of Food Insecurity in the World 2010” hunger report, jointly published today with the World Food Programme (WFP). Chronic hunger … Continue reading →

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Volcano and global environmental surprise

Posted on April 19, 2010 by Victor Galaz

Volcano eruption is certainly one, but which are other possible global surprises? In 1994, the Aspen Global Change Institute organized a two week workshop on global environmental surprise. The results from this workshop can be found in Stephen H. Schneider and … Continue reading →

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The Crises of Nature, The Nature of Crises

Posted on February 2, 2010 by Victor Galaz

Maybe it’s just part of my personal PCSD (Post Copenhagen Stress Disorder), but it seems like one of the most interesting topics emerging in frontiers of the earth system governance agenda, is that of building global institutions able to deal … Continue reading →

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Financial resilience – Taleb and Mandelbrot reflect on crisis

Posted on September 17, 2008 by Garry Peterson

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 →

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Water in the American West: Learning from Crisis

Posted on October 22, 2007 by Garry Peterson

Jon Gertner writes in The Future Is Drying Up a New York Times Magazine about Water in the American West. The articles is discusses how increases in population and decreases in precipitation are reorganizing the US inland west. It includes … Continue reading →

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