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Four Short Links

1) A new paper in Ecology Letters, Regime shifts in ecological systems can occur with no warning, by Alan Hastings and Derin B. Wysham shows that in models certain types of regime shifts do not exhibit any signs of early … Continue reading

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Worldchanging on Green Urbanism

Worldchanging has been posting a lot of thoughts on how green urbanism can build resilience.  Four recent posts that I thought were interesting are: 1) Alex Steffen on De-Industrializing the City One of my favorite quotes by Bjarke Ingels: “Engineering … Continue reading

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Notes on desiging social-ecological systems

Pruned on the rehabilitation of degraded landscapes presents Pedreres de s’Hostal: Pedreres de s’Hostal is a disused stone quarry on the island of Minorca, Spain. In 1994, the quarry saw its last stonecutters, and since then, the non-profit organization Líthica … Continue reading

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Bus Rapid Transit vs. Light Rail

Worldchanging interviews WRI researchers on a recent report they did comparing bus rapid transit (BRT) to light rail.  There is an interesting discussion in the comments on the article WRI on Bus Rapid Transit v. Light Rail: A team of … Continue reading

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Using Disasters for Systemic Change

The adaptive cycle concept propose that crisis is followed by a period of reorganization that looks for new forms of organization.  Often these periods rely of plans developed prior to crisis, and are helped by links to areas unaffected by … Continue reading

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Climate foresight and building resilience

In a WorldChanging article Conservation Easements, Climate Foresight and Resilience Alex Steffen asks if “resilience” is a good way to describe the need for resilience: If the nature of even non-catastrophic climate change is to make the world much more … Continue reading

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