Interesting recent resilience papers
A few recent papers on resilience are quite exciting. Below are brief pointers to them. Hopefully we will have more time to right about them in the future. Steve Carpenter and colleagues Early...
View ArticleNobel Symposium in Stockholm
I just argued the human role in the Anthropocene with Will Steffen at the 2011 Nobel Laureate Symposium in Stockholm. In a mock court, in front of a jury of Nobelists, I successfully argued that: 1)...
View ArticleIs a Good Anthropocene Possible?
Will Steffen and I gave contrasting talks in a Mock Court on the meaning of the Anthropocene at the 3rd Nobel Laureate Symposium on Global Sustainability in Stockholm. The talks are now online, along...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleA parallel world
From David Denby’s review of Soderbergh’s new movie Contagion in the New Yorker: “Contagion” is, of course, a 9/11-anniversary movie, though probably not one that the public was expecting. Soderbergh...
View ArticleBiotic simplification and ecological reorganization
From a powerful review paper in Science on the Trophic Downgrading of Planet Earth (DOI: 10.1126/science.1205106) James A. Estes and many other ecological stars documents the strong role of apex...
View ArticleNew resilience theory related book Phase Transitions
Ricard Solé, the well known complex systems scientist, has a new book Phase Transitions (here’s Table of Contents). It sounds interesting especially since Solé’s work frequently includes ecological...
View ArticleZizek 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 ArticleWhat Are Leaders Really For?
A week ago I had an interesting discussion with Jon Norberg, a professor in Systems Ecology here at Stockholm University, about leadership. Jon is working on, among other things, an agent based model...
View ArticleStabilizing Collectives in the Study of Transformation: Instead of...
This deserves perhaps an even longer blog post, but I wrote this quickly as an appreciation to the previous blog by Juan Carlos Rocha. The previous blog post puts focus on a quite problematic nexus...
View ArticleLearning about Arctic Regime Shifts
Science magazine has an interesting question and answer interview with Igor Krupnik, an anthropologist from the USA’s Smithsonian Institution, who has a worked with indigenous communities in Alaska and...
View ArticleConnecting the Instability of Markets and Ecosystems – C.S. Holling and Hyman...
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...
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