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Scanning the Internet for Ecological Early Warnings
If Google Flu Trends can, why can’t we? The possibility to mine large amounts of individual reports and local news posted on the Internet as early warning signs of pending epidemic outbreaks has been a part of global epidemic governance … Continue reading
Posted in General, Tools, Visualization
Tagged climate change, early warning, forest, internet, invasive species, land use, monitoring
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Using Google to predict the present
Google’s Chief Economist Hal Varian and Hyunyoung Choi write on Google’s research blog about using google search queries, such as Google Trends and Google Insights for Search, to estimate economic activity in Predicting the Present with Google Trends: Our work … Continue reading
Posted in Networks
Tagged estimation, Google Research, Hal Varian, Hyunyoung Choi, internet, monitoring
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Using the internet to provide early warning of ecological change
It all started with a discussion I had with Resilience Alliance member France Westley a couple of years ago about early warning and response challenges related to epidemic emergencies. Frances recommended I have a look at a lecture by Google’s … Continue reading
Improve Devlopment Lending to Build Resilience
Andrew Revkin writes in the New York Times about a recent world bank report that finds that the world bank is not lending in ways that invest in natural capital or resilience (The report is online at worldbank.org/oed). However, there … Continue reading
Posted in Ecological Economics
Tagged Andrew Revkin, development, investment, monitoring, World Bank
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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