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Tag Archives: social-ecological systems
Readings on ES in a Social-Ecological Context (with a resilience emphasis)
Recently I developed a short reading list for PhD students working on ecosystem services at the Stockholm Resilience Centre. This list seeks to cover and introduce a broad area of ecosystem service research with a focus on understanding ecosystem services … Continue reading
Wikipedia page on Social-ecological systems
I was pleasantly surprised to discover that wikipedia has a substantial and good page on the concept of social-ecological system. Socio-ecological system – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: A socio-ecological system consists of ‘a bio-geo-physical’ unit and its associated social actors … Continue reading
More conceptual diagrams of social-ecological systems
Following up on my post yesterday on conceptual diagrams of social-ecolgoical systems (SES), below are some more SES conceptual diagrams from the journal Ecology and Society. I did a google search that found a bunch of nice and not so … Continue reading
Posted in Visualization
Tagged conceptual models, diagrams, ecology and society, social-ecological systems
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Conceptualizing Social-Ecological Systems
I’ve recently been teaching about social-ecological systems and because I think it is important to conceptualize systems graphically these discussions caused me to reflect on the conceptual diagrams of social-ecological systems Conceptualizing something as a social-ecological system hides some aspects … Continue reading
Posted in Ecosystem services, Visualization
Tagged conceptual diagrams, social-ecological systems, system diagram, systems
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Adaptive Agricultural and Environmental Decision-making Postdoc at UC Davis
UC Davis Post-Doctoral Position in Adaptive Agricultural and Environmental Decision-making with Mark Lubell. The UC Davis Department of Environmental Science and Policy seeks to fill one post-doctoral position in Adaptive Agricultural and Environmental Decision-making. The post-doctoral position will be for … Continue reading
The Anthropocene: spread of an idea
The Anthropocene, the idea that the entire planet has become a social-ecological system, is now being discussed in the mass media. Three recent sightings… 1) The Economist has a feature story A man-made world: Science is recognising humans as a … Continue reading
Posted in Regime Shifts
Tagged anthropocene, Earth System Science, Erle Ellis, Jon Foley, Ruth DeFreis, social-ecological systems
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Job: Assistant Prof. in Systems Ecology @ Stockholm University
The Natural Resources Management group of the Department of Systems Ecology at Stockholm University, which is closely connected to the Stockholm Resilience Centre is looking for an Assistant Professor. Applications are due May 31,2011. For full details see the job … Continue reading
Posted in General
Tagged assistant professor, job ad, social-ecological systems, stockholm university, systems ecology
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Clive Hamilton on climate denialism and social-ecological systems and
Clive Hamilton is an author and Professor of Public Ethics at Charles Stuart University and Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics in Australia. He has been writing about the ethics of climate change, and climate denial. In his interesting talk, … Continue reading
Posted in Ideas
Tagged Albert Camus, climate change, climate denial, Clive Hamilton, denialism, RSA, social-ecological systems, video
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Resilience meets architecture and urban planning
- by Matteo Giusti [contact: matteo.giusti [at] gmail.com] – Does resilience thinking and architecture really mix? The answer is a clear “yes” if you ask urban planner Marco Miglioranzi, and Matteo Giusti, Master student at the Stockholm Resilience Centre. Together with the German based … Continue reading
Posted in Cities, Design, Ecosystem services, General, Networks, Visualization
Tagged architecture, dynamic design, planning, social-ecological systems, urban development
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Recent papers on ecological resilience
1. Hughes TP, Graham NA, Jackson JB, Mumby PJ, Steneck RS. 2010 Rising to the challenge of sustaining coral reef resilience. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. [epub] Phase-shifts from one persistent assemblage of species to another have become increasingly commonplace … Continue reading
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Tagged ecological resilience, papers, social-ecological systems, theory
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