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Resilience Alliance & the Integration of Social and Natural Science in Global Change Research

In a new paper Evolution of natural and social science interactions in global change research programs in PNAS (doi:10.1073/pnas.1107484110), Harold A. Mooney, Anantha Duraiappah, & Anne Larigauderie look back on the history of the integration of Social and Natural Science … Continue reading

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Global history: Ian Morris and the Great Divergence

Two of the big questions of global history are why did the industrial revolution happen, and why did it happen in NW Europe? I’ve been partial to the explanation offered by historian Kenneth Pomeranz in his 2000 book The Great … Continue reading

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An international workshop on Social-Ecological Resilience of Cultural Landscapes

A workshop on resilience and cultural landscapes is going to be held in Berlin, Germany from 15 to 16 June 2010.  It is currently calling for papers (see below).  The workshop is described in a downloadable pdf. It states: The … Continue reading

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