Homer-Dixon on Risk, Uncertainty and Crises
Think Globally Radio recently posted a number of great interviews. Here is one interesting one with political scientist, and renown author Thomas Homer-Dixon from University of Waterloo (Canada) – one...
View ArticleInstitutional Dynamics and Emergent Patterns in Global Governance
Can regimes really be viewed as complex dynamic systems? Oran Young makes a nice effort in his latest book “Institutional Dynamics – Emergent Patterns in International Environmental Governance” (MIT...
View ArticleVisualizing Planetary Boundaries
Seems like Christmas comes early this year! Visualizing.org just announced the results of the Visualizing Marathon 2010. One of the challenges was to visualize planetary boundaries, i.e. the concept...
View ArticleLaw for Social-Ecological Resilience – Live Stream!
The international conference “Law for Social-Ecological Resilience” is just about to start in Stockholm. For those unable to attend, all plenary sessions will be live streamed here. The plenaries...
View ArticleResilience 2011: Special panel on Adaptiveness in Earth System Governance
via Earth System Governance Facebook-group The Earth System Governance Project will convene a special panel on Adaptiveness in Earth System Governance at the Resilience Conference 2011. Adaptiveness is...
View ArticleThe Politics of Cascading Ecological Crises
Twitter | @vgalaz How do we make sense of ecological crises that cascade across spatial scales and that propagate from ecological to social and economical systems? Considering a number of recent...
View ArticleA Moratorium on Geoengineering? Really?
In October 2010, participants in the international Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) included in their agreement to protect biodiversity, a moratorium on geoengineering. But what does this...
View ArticleCooperation Across Borders
via Michael Schoon, Arizona State University In a recent paper entitled “Cooperation Across Boundaries: The Role of Political Entrepreneurs” in Environmental Collaboration (Journal of Natural Resources...
View ArticleInternational Symposium – The Governance of Adaptation
In March 2012 a two day conference will be held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on “The governance of adaptation”. Topics to be discussed include: the framing of adaptation problems and goals, modes of...
View ArticleVisualizations of Adaptive Governance
Inspired by a recent course I taught, and my colleague’s Garry Peterson’s search for visualizations of social-ecological systems, (also here), I found myself looking for illustrations of adaptive...
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