Tag Archives: Resilience 2008

Resilience Interviews

Posted on May 31, 2008 by Garry Peterson

Kaitlyn Rathwell and others from the Stockholm Resilience Centre interviewed twenty international resilience researcher, including Fikret Berkes, Ann Kinzing and Will Steffen, at Resilience 2008 about key social and ecological aspects of resilience. The interviews are now available online at … Continue reading →

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Radio Feature: Resilience, Adaptation and Transformation in Turbulent Times

Posted on May 21, 2008 by Allyson Quinlan

Mark Sommer, host and executive producer of A World of Possibilities, interviewed scientists and researchers from around the world at the Resilience 2008 conference last month in Stockholm, Sweden. The 55 minute long radio show can be heard online and … Continue reading →

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Brian Walker’s Research Areas for Resilience Science

Posted on May 20, 2008 by Garry Peterson

Brian Walker, the former director of the Resilience Alliance reflected on the future of resilience science in his introductory talk at Resilience 2008. In his talk Probing the boundaries of resilience science and practice, he identified seven important research areas … Continue reading →

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Scenarios and Resilience

Posted on April 30, 2008 by Steve Carpenter

People or organizations can focus their effort on a narrow goal, or they can diversify the uses of resources to explore and innovate. It is hard to do both at the same time. This pattern arises in politics as well … Continue reading →

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Wiki launch of the practitioner’s guide to resilience assessment

Posted on April 23, 2008 by Allyson Quinlan

Last week at Resilience 2008 in Stockholm, I gave a presentation on the Practitioner’s workbook Assessing and Managing Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems. The workbook incorporates key principles underlying resilience thinking and provides a framework for assessing the resilience of social-ecological … Continue reading →

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Novelty Needed for Sustainable Development – Resilience 2008

Posted on April 18, 2008 by Garry Peterson

The Stockholm Resilience Centre has released two press releases on the conclusion of Resilience 2008. The first Novelty thinking key to sustainable development reports on the concluding panel of the conference in which Elinor Ostrom, Sverker Sörlin, Carole Crumley, Line … Continue reading →

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Melissa Leach reports from Resilience 2008

Posted on April 17, 2008 by Garry Peterson

Melissa Leach, co-author of the well known book Misreading the African Landscape and director of the STEPS centre, provides her perspective on the Resilience 2008 conference, on STEP’s Centre’s Crossings blog.  She writes: Despite the avowed interdisciplinarity of resilience studies, … Continue reading →

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Resilience 2008 picture gallery

Posted on April 16, 2008 by Garry Peterson

The Stockholm Resilience Centre has an online picture gallery from Resilience 2008. Buzz Holling, considered the father of resilience thinking, took the audience on a journey through his 50 year long environmental research. Photo: J. Lokrantz/Azote.

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Student-led resilience workshop after Resilience 2008

Posted on April 10, 2008 by Garry Peterson

Realise, Reorganise, Adapt – Reorganising knowledge for sustainability is a student led resilience workshop that follows the Resilience conference on Friday April 18, 10.00-14.00 at Stockholm Resilience Centre. It will address the questions: How should we organise knowledge for sustainability? … Continue reading →

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Resilience 2008 conference schedule and web broadcast information

Posted on April 10, 2008 by Garry Peterson

Hosted by Stockholm Resilience Centre, Resilience 2008 will take place in Stockholm between April 14-17 2008 and will involve some of the world´s most distinguished scientists and politicians who will discuss ecology, economy and society from a Resilience perspective. Live … Continue reading →

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