resilienceSci on Twitter- resilienceSci: @owengaffney @GenAnthropocene And here's my former McGill colleague Bernhard Lehner's 200 yrs of world dam data https://t.co/dO4721U8U4 May 20, 2013
- resilienceSci: @owengaffney @GenAnthropocene Here's James Syvitski in 2011 of 200 yrs of USA dam construction http://t.co/qDj1nEpU9d May 20, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @erleellis: Abstract time for the 2014 Global Land Project Open Science Meeting in Berlin http://t.co/dn7Wo8I5y8 May 20, 2013
- resilienceSci: Reading UNEP's: #City-Level DeCoupling-urban resource flows & the governance of infrastructure #transitions http://t.co/9B3IFBoJ5R May 20, 2013
- resilienceSci: Agricultural regime shift in Texas: long term aquifer depletion+drought= loss of vast areas of farm land http://t.co/fsYyuaJxD5 #resilience May 20, 2013
- resilienceSci: Listening to 1st 1/2time seminar in SRC's sustainability science program: Rebecka Malinga on managing ecosystem services in ag landscapes May 20, 2013
- resilienceSci: Fun SRC discussion on useful approaches to linking models (ABMs to causal loops) to statistics (regressions to random forests) in #SES May 20, 2013
- resilienceSci: Diversity of and trends in inequality in OECD great to see important after tax & transfer inequality key http://t.co/hcIZIqGlbO May 20, 2013
- resilienceSci: Reforming Global trade networks - Public Outrage Over Factory Conditions Spurs Labor Deal #ranaplaza http://t.co/LKp8IEZiOP May 20, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @leafwarbler: An open letter from Prof. Madhav Gadgil to the Kasturirangan panel: Shocking betrayal on Western Ghats http://t.co/UWiwwX1… May 18, 2013
Tag Archives: financial resilience
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
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
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Tagged black swan, crisis, financial resilience, fractal, mandelbrot, nassim taleb
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Paul Krugman on Resilience Economics
On Paul Krugman’s Blog he presents a graphical model of the current financial crisis in the US that implicitly discusses how the system lost resilience. He identifies leveraged investments as a slow variable which can lead to the creation of … Continue reading