resilienceSci on Twitter- 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
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- resilienceSci: Listening to talk on successful Swedish urban resilience assessment using @resilience_RA workbook + other methods http://t.co/nj9ZiDgXQQ May 17, 2013
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- resilienceSci: Sustainability people the new UN Office for Sustainable Development is looking for a "head of office" https://t.co/QvAnPLJ8Fg May 17, 2013
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Tag Archives: poverty
Tim Daw on ecosystem services tradeoffs
In the video below Tim Daw, from the University of East Anglia’s School of International Development and the Stockholm Resilience Centre, explains his project Participatory Modelling of Wellbeing Tradeoffs in Coastal Kenya. The project, in which I’m also participating, has … Continue reading
Posted in Ecological Management, Ecosystem services, Scenarios
Tagged ecosystem service tradeoffs, fisheries, human well being, Kenya, poverty, Tim Daw, video
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Ecosystem services and poverty alleviation
Ecosystem services for poverty alleviation (ESPA) is an exciting new research programme funded by a consortium of development and science agencies in the UK. I’m on ESPA’s international advisory board and they asked me for some thoughts on the ecosystem … Continue reading
Two PhD positions on governance of ecosystem services in Southern and Eastern Afric
Two PhD positions at the Stockholm Resilience Centre. Applications are due May 2nd. The positons are with a project Governance of ecosystem services under scenarios of change in southern and eastern Africa, funded by the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA). … Continue reading
Four short links to new papers
Four interesting new papers – Parks & Poverty, Pleistocene extinctions, Evosystem services, and making better assessments 1) Parks can help local people. Protected areas reduced poverty in surrounding areas in Costa Rica and Thailand by K.S. Andam and other in … Continue reading
How much is African poverty really falling?
Martin Ravallion, Director of the Development Research Group of the World Bank,responds to Maxim Pinkovskiy and Xavier Sala-i-Martin’s NBER paper that estimates a decline in African poverty. He agrees that poverty is decreasing, but believes they are overstating their case. … Continue reading
Posted in Inequality
Tagged africa, economics, income data, Martin Ravallion, poverty, Sala-i-Martin
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African Poverty is Falling
A new NBER working paper African Poverty is Falling…Much Faster than You Think! from economists Xavier Sala-i-Martin and Maxim Pinkovskiy argues that African poverty has been rapidly falling across Africa since 1995. They use methods they use to look at … Continue reading
Absolute poverty in China: Higher, but going down faster than previously estimated
From the Economist: In December 2007 the World Bank unveiled the results of the biggest exercise in window shopping in history. Scouts in 146 countries scoured stalls, supermarkets and mail-order catalogues, recording the price of more than 1,000 items, from … Continue reading
Posted in General
Tagged China, development, poverty, purchasing power parity, World Bank
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