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 Bill Clark Elizabeth Malone Marina Apgar Slides: Alan AtKisson, Pam Matson Elinor Ostrom Carlo Jaeger […]
Sturle Hauge Simonsen from Stockholm Resilience Centre has told me that you can freely download Centre seminars and presentations from iTunes. Many shorter presentations are available on YouTube. Speakers in the iTunes talks includes a diverse group of well known scientists such as Elinor Ostrom, Buzz Holling, Claire Kremen, Pavan Sukhdev, Frances Westley, Terry Hughes, […]
Neal Gorenflo writes that Shareable Magazine, a nonprofit online magazine that publishes stories about how to share resources, is looking for a part-time contract editor for their Ecosystem channel. They hosted a Resilience inspired event called Design 4 Resilience in April 2010. They are looking for someone to: Write about innovations in managing important physical […]
This article might be of interest for all political scientists doing sustainability research. After decades of being dominated by quantitative models and theory-driven research, a panel of prominent scholars at the American Political Science Association (APSA) annual meeting, discussed whether political science at all, was relevant for policy-makers trying to solve real-world problems. The Inside Higher Ed […]
Johan Rockström, from the Stockholm Resilience Centre, talks at TED about strategies people can use to transform our civilization (citing work on Latin American agriculture, the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, Kristianstad in Sweden, and Elinor Ostrom‘s work) to enable the Earth System to remain within planetary boundaries. Ethan Zuckerman provides a summary of the […]
The concept of social-ecological systems has been gaining increased interested in science. Below is a graph showing papers whose topic includes social-ecological systems. During the 1990s there were a few publications and then a rapid rise during the 2000s. Two influential books articulated social-ecological ideas: Linking social and ecological systems: Practices and Social Mechanisms for […]
http://twitter.com/vgalaz Does resilience thinking have any impact at all on the ground? These two very interesting examples came in via Lorena Franco Vidal at the NGO Fundación Humedales de Colombia. In January of this year, the mentioned NGO decided to initiate a climate vulnerability and resilience assessment of the Fúquene wetland complex in the east of the Colombian […]
Here comes the “resilience backlash”. After some considerable praising of resilience theory the last years – for example by Fast Company, Foreign Policy, and the Volvo Environment Award – human ecologist Alf Hornborg from Lund (Sweden), elaborates some harsh criticism in a forthcoming issue of the International Journal of Comparative Sociology. Although the article is almost […]
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 go back to basics. So, take the opportunity to get a short and close encounter […]
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 Gordon and Buzz Holling reflected on the conference, lessons from the past and the answers […]