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A “Planetary Boundaries” Straw-Man 8 Apr 2013 | 03:17 pm
Update: I work at the Stockholm Resilience Centre, headed by Johan Rockström and Carl Folke. The opinions reflected here are my own, and not the organizations. The notion of “planetary boundaries” an...
Bruno Latour thinks about the Anthropocene 22 Mar 2013 | 03:23 pm
Bruno Latour‘s Gifford Lectures Facing Gaia: A new enquiry into Natural Religion, which were given at University of Edinburgh over the last few months are now on the web. Lecture 1: ‘Once Out of Natur...
Cityscapes :: An urban magazine from the global south :: New issue #3: The Smart City? 20 Mar 2013 | 01:31 pm
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. This is when we ...
Is 3D printing the “next big thing” for ecology? 7 Mar 2013 | 07:48 pm
If you are interested in emerging technologies with disruptive potential, it is hard to avoid the growing hype around 3D-printing: printers able to reproduce a digital model by adding materials in lay...
Connecting the Instability of Markets and Ecosystems – C.S. Holling and Hyman Minsky 7 Mar 2013 | 01:07 pm
Both markets and ecosystems can, and have, been viewed as being shaped by feedback processes that push them towards a steady state – in markets this is the “invisible hand” – in ecology it is “success...
A Planet without Humans? Two Short Reflections on “Does the terrestrial biosphere have planetary tipping points?” 1 Mar 2013 | 02:24 am
Are “planetary tipping points” likely? Trends in Ecology and Evolution recently published a very thought provoking article by Brooks et al. that challenges the notion of abrupt global threshold change...
Ecology & Society papers that best connect different author groups 14 Feb 2013 | 08:08 pm
As part of a project I am working on, I did a quick network analysis of co-authorship structure among papers in Ecology and Society. Based on this preliminary analysis, the papers below are the papers...
Ecology and Society’s most ‘typical’ paper 13 Feb 2013 | 05:54 pm
The journal Ecology and Society publishes a lot of work related to resilience and social-ecological systems. As part of a project I am working on, I did a quick network analysis of co-authorship stru...
WEF’s Risk Report and the misperception of environmental risks 25 Jan 2013 | 03:21 pm
World Economic Forum’s Global Risks 2013 report is an interesting, but one eyed view of the global risk landscape. I think the main weakness is lack of consideration of how the financial, economic, an...
Two research positions at Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to work with SRC 16 Jan 2013 | 09:37 pm
Exciting job opportunities here in Stockholm at Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to work with Stockholm Resilience Centre: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is pleased to announce two positions a...
