resilienceSci on Twitter- resilienceSci: RT @DianeOrihel: Reason triumphs, sometimes: #ELA Lake 227 was fertilized with #phosphorus this week, so this 44-year experiment continues!… May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @DianeOrihel: On May 7, scientists called on #DFO and #EC to reverse its decision to end world's longest #eutrophication exp't http://t.… May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: ESPA funded postdoctoral position for SRC lead project on poverty alleviation & coastal ecosystem services http://t.co/g60LUkWAV2 May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: @MichaelSchoon1 I put the "good" in quotes - but gave some criteria that could be used to define good May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @sthlmresilience: @MichaelSchoon1: indeed, that is a critical question and is being discussed during the panel May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @MichaelSchoon1: @vgalaz @sthlmresilience @FredrikMoberg @resilienceSci @gustafr good for whom? May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @sthlmresilience: So Prof Peterson says criteria for a good Anthropocene is that it is: Fair, Prosperous, Sustainable, Resilient and fun May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @vgalaz: Abt to kick off final global future panel disc @sthlmresilience "Creating a Good Anthropocene?" ft @FredrikMoberg @resilienceSc… May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: @ideas4sust @JamilaHaider Here us the link to paper http://t.co/KE174yxhae in Revue d’ethnoécologie (paper is in English) May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: @drk75 Sounds very interesting! Hope you make good progress. May 24, 2013
Tag Archives: resilience
Resilience as an operating system for sustainability in the anthropocene
Chris Turner, author of Geography of Hope: A Tour of the World We Need, writing in the Walrus about the Anthropocene and the coral reef crisis in his long article Age of Breathing Underwater: I first heard tell of “resilience” — … Continue reading
Posted in General, Reorganization
Tagged anthropocene, Brian Walker, Chris Turner, coral reefs, resilience, Walrus
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Dead Ahead: Similar Early Warning Signals of Change in Climate, Ecosystems, Financial Markets, Human Health
What do abrupt changes in ocean circulation and Earth’s climate, shifts in wildlife populations and ecosystems, the global finance market and its system-wide crashes, and asthma attacks and epileptic seizures have in common? According to a paper published this week in … Continue reading
Posted in Regime Shifts, Vulnerability
Tagged anthropocene, climate change, eutrophication, financial crisis, Martin Scheffer, resilience
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A Novel for the Long Now
Imagine that we wanted our descendants to persist for 10,000 years. How could we help that to happen? This question motivates most of the research on resilience, as well as initiatives such as Clock of the Long Now < http://www.longnow.org/> … Continue reading
Posted in General
Tagged anthropocene, fiction, Girl With Skirt of Stars, Jennifer Kitchell, resilience, water
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Climate change theatre
There has been a lack of art that addresses climate change, and this lack reduces the ability of people to envision possible futures and consequently make better decisions today. This appears to be changing. Playwright Steve Waters double play – … Continue reading
Posted in Visualization
Tagged climate change, Contingency Plan, On the Beach, resilience, Steve Waters
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Resilience: the Next Big Thing in Foreign Policy
Jamais Cascio, who is really writing a lot on resilience these days, writes in Foreign Policy magazine The Next Big Thing: Resilience. He provides a good summary introduction to resilience, using definitions very similar to those we use in the … Continue reading
Stockholm Whiteboard Seminars
Fredrik Moberg from Albaeco and Stockholm Resilience Centre has developed a new video seminar concept with Sturle Simonsen called the “Stockholm Whiteboard Seminars”. He says: The idea is to get away from seminars loaded with lengthy and flashy PowerPoints and … Continue reading
A regional resilience assessment of the Goulburn-Broken Catchment
Earlier this month one of the first integrated assessments of regional resilience based on the workbooks developed by the Resilience Alliance was published in Ecology and Society. Resilience, Adaptability and Transformability in the Goulburn-Broken Catchment, Australia, by Brian Walker, Nick … Continue reading
Posted in General
Tagged Adaptability, Australia, Brian Walker, Goulburn-Broken Catchment, Marty Anderies, Nick Abel, Paul Ryan, resilience, Transformability, workbook
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Reflections on urban resilience
Two recent reflections on resilience in cities, which use different definitions of resilience than the resilience alliance. The first focuses on resilience as social trust and while the second on resilience as persistence. Arjun Appadurai on the Immanent Frame writes: … Continue reading
Posted in Cities
Tagged Arjun Appadurai, Detroit, Mumbai, resilience, Steve Carpenter, urban
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STEPS Centre Reframing Resilience report
Melissa Leach, director of the STEPS Centre, has written and posted a report on the Reframing Resilience symposium the centre hosted in Sept 2008 (Re-framing Resilience: A Symposium Report – pdf 484kb). The symposium aimed to address questions such as: … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptation, Ideas, Vulnerability
Tagged criticism, development, Melissa Leach, re-framing resilience, resilience, STEPS centre
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Tom Peters, Black Swans, and Resilience
Business writer Tom Peters (he co-wrote 1980s business bestseller In search of excellence) writes on his blog about Resilience and Black Swans: I am mesmerized by Black Swans. We must live day to day, year to year, gettin’ on with getting’ … Continue reading