Tag Archives: Resilience 2011

Information and communication technologies in the Anthropocene

UPDATED: Slides from the talks at the end of this blogpost The use of social media for political mobilization during the political uprisings in Northern Africa and the Middle East during 2010 and 2011; digital coordination of climate skeptic networks … 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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Trend Spotting: Network Analysis is Growing in Social-Ecological Studies

The network perspective and its accompanying style of analysis – social network analysis (SNA), and more generally network analysis – is a growing trend within the field of social-ecological studies and resilience research. At the recent conference Resilience 2011, 11-16 … Continue reading

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Resilience Thinking in Practice

On the final afternoon of the Resilience 2011 conference last month in Tempe, Arizona, a panel session on resilience assessment packed out the room.This wasn’t surprising given that a recurring theme throughout the conference and in my own discussions with … 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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Revisiting Ostrom’s Design principles for community-based Natural Resource Management

In her talk at Resilience 2011, Elinor Ostrom recommended a recent paper by her colleagues that reviews 91 studies that empirically evaluated her design principles for for resilient institutions for the management of common pool resources. Cox, M., G. Arnold, … Continue reading

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Universities for Sustainability Science: need for a new vision

At Resilience 2011, William Clark recommends the 2002 inaugural address of Michael Crow as President of Arizona State University (ASU) as a good example about how to think about what a university needs to be to embrace the challenge of … Continue reading

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Resilience 2011 on twitter

A number of people are providing their brief reflections on twitter about what is going on at Resilience 2011. My colleagues from the Stockholm Resilience Centre are represented by Albert Norström and Victor Galaz. David Ing, people from the Transition … Continue reading

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Early registration for Resilience 2011 ends with 2010

A reminder, early registration for Resilience 2011 conference at Arizona State University in the USA ends Dec 31st, 2010. Below, Sander van der Leeuw, Dean of ASU’s School of Sustainability, welcomes people to the Resilience 2011 conference. Welcome Resilience 2011 … Continue reading

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