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A Moratorium on Geoengineering? Really?
In the end of October 2010, participants in the international Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) included in their agreement to protect biodiversity , a moratorium on geoengineering. This CBD...
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Impacts of the 2010 tsunami in Chile
UPDATE: Here is a link to a video to Prof. Castilla’s talk (via @sthlmresilience) 03:34 a.m. February 27th 2010. Suddenly, a devastating earthquake and a series of tsunamis hits the central–south coast...
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Does an increased awareness of catastrophic “tipping points”, really trigger...
This critical question relates to a suite of resilience related research fields, ranging from early warnings of catastrophic shifts in ecosystems, non-linear planetary boundaries, and the role of...
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Resilience and Life in the Arctic
On Thursday, March 10, 2011, the Resilience Alliance Board voted to accept Eddy Carmack as the new Program Research Director. Eddy is a climate oceanographer studying water and people from oceans to...
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Controversies around the Social Cost of Carbon
What is the social cost of carbon? That is,the monetary value of the long-term damages done by greenhouse gas emissions? Frank Ackerman from the Stockholm Environment Institute U.S. Center, recently...
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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;...
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Zizek interviewed by Al Jazeera on world protests and Occupy Wall Street
In his quite amazing, nerve-racking style, the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek spins out a critique in an interview by Al Jazeera, a critique that homes in on the historical crisis of ‘our’ time,...
View ArticleThe tragedy of a common currency
The current crisis of the Euro emphasizes some basic lessons from the study of resilience of dynamic systems. Attributes of complex systems that enhance resilience are diversity, redundancy and...
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Interdisciplinary science – what should we measure, and why?
Research impact assessments of academic environments with bibliometric indicators are becoming increasingly important. Not only do they define where you are placed in international rankings of research...
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Can Geoengineering and Planetary stewardship be combined?
Should we deliberately intervene in the Earth system to counteract the negative impacts of climate change? Certainly not, if we ask prominent Earth system scholar Will Steffen. In a recent article...
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Cityscapes :: An urban magazine from the global south :: New issue #3: The...
How to think cities anew? When what we are seeing are not new londons, parises, new-yorks or even tokyos growing, we need to start re-thinking what urbanization and urbanism is about. New Cityscapes...
View Article‘Pluralisms-a-plenty’: engaging with the social world in social-ecological...
A reflection on challenges and opportunities of dealing with multiple kinds of pluralisms in doing SES research (e.g. ontologies, epistemologies, theories, methodologies), particularly from an early...
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