resilienceSci on Twitter- 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
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- resilienceSci: Resilience 2014 conference May 4-8, 2014 in Montpellier, France is now accepting abstracts & session proposals http://t.co/Si6ynkEjAV May 17, 2013
- resilienceSci: @ECGGroup @corrinecash_ You could also see my collection of papers on resilience & political ecology on Menedely http://t.co/YFDHqH4i63 May 17, 2013
- resilienceSci: @resilience_RA SRC MS student My S. will hand in her MS thesis next week can send to you for comments + feedback May 17, 2013
- resilienceSci: Listening to talk on successful Swedish urban resilience assessment using @resilience_RA workbook + other methods http://t.co/nj9ZiDgXQQ May 17, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @stepscentre: Video: Andy Stirling on @stepscentre methods and methodology http://t.co/nwi0rhezA2 #sss13 May 17, 2013
- resilienceSci: Sustainability people the new UN Office for Sustainable Development is looking for a "head of office" https://t.co/QvAnPLJ8Fg May 17, 2013
Tag Archives: global change
Planet Under Pressure: Understanding the Anthropocene
The above video on the Anthropocene was created for the Planet Under Pressure global change and sustainability conference in London, UK, which starts today, March 26th, and continues to the 29th. The movie is: A 3-minute journey through the last … Continue reading
Posted in Visualization
Tagged anthropocene, conference, global change, London, planet under pressure, sustainability
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Peatlands as complex adaptive systems
In a Perspective in Science, Nancy Dise reviews how the response of peatlands to global change will be complex (doi:10.1126/science.1174268). She writes: Research from a variety of areas and approaches is converging upon the concept of peatlands as complex adaptive … Continue reading
Global change and missing institutions
In Science Policy Forum, Brian Walker and others have a policy forum in Looming Global-Scale Failures and Missing Institutions, in which they argue that the the global order of nation-state’s has improved the well-being of many people at the cost of … Continue reading
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Tagged Brian Walker, global change, institutions
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Intensive agriculture’s ecological surprises
Rhitu Chatterjee has written a news article Intensive agriculture’s ecological surprises in Environ. Sci. Technol. (July 2, 2008) about a paper Agricultural modifications of hydrological flows create ecological surprises (doi:10.1016/j.tree.2007.11.011) that Line Gordon, Elena Bennett and I published in TREE … Continue reading
Posted in Ecosystem services, Regime Shifts
Tagged agriculture, Elena Bennett, Garry Peterson, global change, Line Gordon, surprise, water
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Global Anthropogenic Drivers of Water Quality and Quantity
Global Stressors on Water Quality and Quantity (Zimmerman et al 2008 ES&T 42(12) 4247–4254) These graphs show part of what Will Steffen calls the great acceleration.