resilienceSci on Twitter- 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
- resilienceSci: RT @BrankoMilan: (1/2) What 3 countries were greatest econ failures of XXc? #Congo, #Haiti, #Niger. Their today's GDPpc is <1/2 of what it … May 18, 2013
- resilienceSci: 3rd Int. Science & policy conference on the resilience of social & ecological systems May 4-8 2014 Montpellier France http://t.co/JU84cvVJaV May 17, 2013
- resilienceSci: @corrinecash_ I'm ecological, but I care about how people shape and are shaped by ecosystems & therefore I'm interested in social science May 17, 2013
- resilienceSci: Resilience 2014 conference May 4-8, 2014 in Montpellier, France is now accepting abstracts & session proposals http://t.co/Si6ynkEjAV May 17, 2013
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Partial success in reducing global maternal death rate
Globally maternal deaths are decreasing. The rate at which mothers die during childbirth has been reduced by about 40% since 1980, but this is not enough to meet the Millennium Development goal of reducing maternal mortality 75% from 1990 levels … Continue reading
Posted in Inequality
Tagged map, maternal health, Millennium Development goals, public health
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Vavilov and AgroDiversity
Russian agricultural geneticist and biogeographer Nikolay Vavilov, is scientically famous for proposing that centres of endemism of crop relatives point to the origin of food crops, and being martyred by Soviet Lysenkoism. Furthermore, he established the Lenigrad seed bank that was … Continue reading
Mapping global flows of virtual green and blue water
Green and blue virtual-water ‘flows’ related to wheat trade by major exporting and importing nations (km3/year). The size of each pie is determined by the amount of virtual water ‘traded’. Countries with virtual-water ‘exports’ are depicted in green and countries … Continue reading
Posted in Ecological Economics, Networks, Visualization
Tagged A.Y. Hoekstra, agriculture, blue water, green water, J.A. Allan, M.M. Aldaya, map, trade, virtual water, wheat
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Maping global virtual waters flows
Fig. 4. World map of virtual water exports. (a) Total virtual water exports (flows exceeding 10 km3 yr−1 are shown); (b) flows of virtual water exports originating from blue (irrigation) water (flows exceeding 1.0 km3 yr−1 are shown); and (c) … Continue reading
Posted in Ecosystem services, Networks, Visualization
Tagged agriculture, blue water, green water, map, model, Naota Hanasaki, Shinjiro Kanae, Taikan Oki, Toshiyuki Inuzuka, virtual water
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Mapping the world’s ‘intact’ forests
In the latest issue of Ecology and Society, Peter Potapov et al’s article Mapping the world’s intact forest landscapes by remote sensing. (Ecology and Society 13(2): 51). Shows a new map of global forests – showing the “intact forest” areas … Continue reading
Geography and Genes
From the New York Times reporting on an article by Oscar Lao and others in Current Biology: The map shows, at right, the location in Europe where each of the sampled populations live and, at left, the genetic relationship between … Continue reading
Archetypical landscape of the USA
Jeff Cardille at the University of Montreal has a project METALAND that is eveloping more sophiticated ways of characterizing landscapes. He presented some of his work on archetypical landscapes of the USA at the current Ecological Society of America meeting. … Continue reading
Mapping global wind energy potential
From EO Newsroom: Global Ocean Wind Energy Potential and from Archer, C. L. and M. Z. Jacobson, 2005: Evaluation of global windpower. J. Geophys. Res.-Atm., 110, D12110, doi:10.1029/2004JD005462.
Using the web to track disease outbreaks
HealthMap an interesting global health alert system that was recently accounted in a PLoS Medicine article Surveillance Sans Frontières: Internet-Based Emerging Infectious Disease Intelligence and the HealthMap Project (Brownstein et al 2008). They explain the motivation for the project: As … Continue reading
Mapping cost of gas
New York Times has a nice visualization of how the share of people’s income spent on gas varies across the USA. Their map shows that while gas prices vary across the USA, the amount of people’s income spent of gas … Continue reading