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Ocean acidification and resilience: a guest post from Beatrice Crona
This is a guest post from my colleague Beatrice Crona at the Stockholm Resilience Center. During the past week I have spent my days wrapping my head around complex climate and ocean models during the Third symposium on Oceans in a … Continue reading
Can Geoengineering and Planetary stewardship be combined?
Should we deliberately intervene in the Earth system to counteract the negative impacts of climate change? Certainly not, if we ask prominent Earth system scholar Will Steffen. In a recent article published in Ambio , Steffen and colleagues argue that … Continue reading
Posted in Ecosystem services, General, Reflections
Tagged Geoengineering, planetary boundaries, planetary stewardship
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Forty years of Limits to Growth
The first presentation of the influential environmentalist book Limits to Growth was on March 1 in 1972 at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, four decades ago. The study was both hugely influential and hugely controversial, and the authors were quite … Continue reading
Does an increased awareness of catastrophic “tipping points”, really trigger political action?
This critical question relates to a suite of resilience related research fields, ranging from early warnings of catastrophic shifts in ecosystems, non-linear planetary boundaries, and the role of perceived crisis as triggers of transformations towards more adaptive forms of ecosystem … Continue reading
Posted in General, Reflections, Regime Shifts
Tagged climate change, crisis, philosphy, planetary boundaries, Political Science, Regime Shifts
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Postdoc on Planetary Boundaries at Stockholm Resilience Centre
The Stockholm Resilience Centre seeking a research coordinator to coordinate and initiate interdisciplinary research on Planetary Boundaries. The job ad is here: The successful candidate will benefit from a dynamic research environment at the SRC as well as the wider … Continue reading
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Tagged job, planetary boundaries, Postdoc, Stockholm Resilience Centre
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Visualizing Planetary Boundaries
Seems like Christmas comes early this year! Visualizing.org just announced the results of the Visualizing Marathon 2010. One of the challenges was to visualize planetary boundaries, i.e. the concept of multiple and non-linear earth system processes presented by Johan Rockström … Continue reading
Posted in General, Visualization
Tagged Johan Rockstrom, planetary boundaries, Visualization
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Johan Rockström at TED on planetary boundaries
Johan Rockström, from the Stockholm Resilience Centre, talks at TED about strategies people can use to transform our civilization (citing work on Latin American agriculture, the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, Kristianstad in Sweden, and Elinor Ostrom‘s work) to enable … Continue reading
Posted in Visualization
Tagged Johan Rockstrom, planetary boundaries, Stockholm Resilience Centre, TED, video
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Johan Röckstrom talks about Planetary Boundaries
Johan Röckstrom recently gave a talk on Planetary Boundaries based on the papers Nature (doi:10.1038/461472a) and Ecology and Society. In those papers the authors propose propose nine planetary boundaries, beyond which the functioning of the earth system will fundamentally change … Continue reading
Planetary Boundaries
A number of resilience researchers, and many others, have proposed the concept of planetary boundaries in a new paper A safe operating space for humanity in Nature (doi:10.1038/461472a). Johan Rockstrom and others propose nine planetary boundaries, beyond which the functioning … Continue reading
Posted in Big Back Loop, Regime Shifts, Reorganization
Tagged Johan Rockstrom, planetary boundaries
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