Tag Archives: Marten Scheffer

New resilience theory related book Phase Transitions

Ricard Solé, the well known complex systems scientist, has a new book Phase Transitions (here’s Table of Contents). It sounds interesting especially since Solé’s work frequently includes ecological and evolutionary dynamics.  The book looks very similar it is to Marten … Continue reading

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Resilience 2011 slides and videos

Slides and videos for keynote and invited speaker presentations at Resilience 2011 are now available online. Video: Alan AtKisson Pam Matson Marten Scheffer Elinor Ostrom Carlo Jaeger John Finnigan Chuck Redman Bert de Vries Brian Walker Nils Ferrand Oran Young … Continue reading

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Resilience 2011: notes on regime shifts and coupled social-ecological systems

The Resilience 2011 conference was a unique opportunity to meet people and new ways of thinking about resilience. This post is dedicated to the sessions I enjoyed the most, and my research interests biased me towards sessions on regime shifts … Continue reading

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Reviewing Critical Transitions

Environmental historian, John R. McNeill, reviews Marten Scheffer‘s new book on resilience – Critical Transitions in Nature and Society. In the American Scientist he writes: Like many before him, Marten Scheffer is impressed with parallels between social systems and natural … Continue reading

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Responses to Early Warning Signals for Critical Transitions paper

The recent paper by Marten Scheffer and other resilience researchers paper Early Warning Signals for Critical Transitions (doi:10.1038/nature08227) has been reported in a number of places including Time, USA Today, and Wired.  While many newspapers just reprint the press release, … Continue reading

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