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Resilience: Persistence, Adaptability and Transformability
The idea of resilience, increasingly discussed, remains narrowly understood.
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Kari Marie Norgaard: Cognitive and Behavioral Challenges
A summary and bibliography of studies that probe humanity's slow response to the potential for climate crisis.
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Climate, Information, Perception and Behavior
Connie Roser-Renouf and Matthew Nisbet survey and evaluate a wide range of studies on climate-change related values, opinions, perceptions, preferences, knowledge and behavior.
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William Boyd: Forest Carbon and Climate Change
It has become increasingly clear that REDD could be a crucial component of any overall political deal on a post-2012 agreement by breaking the Kyoto logjam and providing an avenue for developing countries to move toward meaningful emissions reductions commitments.
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Climate Change and Post-Normal Science
In what we call ‘post-normal science’, facts are uncertain, values in dispute, stakes high and decisions urgent. In such a case, the term ‘problem’, with its connotations of an exercise where a defined methodology is likely to lead to a clear solution, is less appropriate.
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Anthony Leiserowitz: Climate and Risk Perception
Americans seem concerned about global warming, yet view it as less important than nearly all other national or environmental issues. What explains this paradox?
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Copenhagen Climate Congress Synthesis Report
In March 2009, the largest academic conference ever devoted to climate change put forth a set of political "messages."
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Global Warming’s Six Americas
These six audience segments describe a spectrum of concern and action about global warming, ranging from the Alarmed (18% of the population), to the Concerned (33%), Cautious (19%), Disengaged (12%), Doubtful (11%) and Dismissive (7%).
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Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change
Climate justice needs to go beyond the confines and concerns of traditional environmental justice advocates.
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Greenhouse Development Rights
It is people – not nations or economies – that possess the right to development. We believe this intra-national focus is the key to breaking out of the North / South trap and, thus, the climate impasse.
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Matthew Nisbet: Framing Climate Change
Nisbet examines research on frames that reoccur across science-related policy debates and applies them to a discussion of climate change.
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Glossary of Climate Adaptation and Decision-Making
Terminology related to climate adapatation, risk, uncertainty and decision-making, adapted from the UK Climate Impacts Programme.
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The Age of Consequences
Climate change scenario planning from the Center for Strategic and International Studies
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From Complex Regions to Complex Worlds
There is opportunity for exploratory experiment if the experiments are designed to have low costs of failure.
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The Flawed Foundations of General Equilibrium
In the case of economics, the ivory tower casts a long shadow over social and political life.
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Economic Growth, Carrying Capacity, and the Environment
The solution to environmental degradation lies in such institutional reforms as would compel private users of environmental resources to take account of the social costs of their actions.
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Network Structure, Diversity, and Proactive Resilience Building
Human societies can make choices that will limit the need for adaptation in the future, and create space for future options.
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The Struggle to Govern the Commons
Locally evolved institutional arrangements governed by stable communities and buffered from outside forces have sustained resources successfully for centuries, although they often fail when rapid change occurs.
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The Evolutionary Basis of Rigidity
Understanding why rigidity makes sense may help in finding ways to avoid traps in situations where flexible response and innovation are needed.
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Adaptive Capacity and Traps
Adaptive capacity, the ability of a system to adjust to changing internal demands and external circumstances, is a central feature of resilience.
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Community-Based Forest Monitoring
We found that collaborative monitoring can lead to shared ecological understanding among diverse participants, build trust internally and credibility externally, foster social learning and community-building, and advance adaptive management.
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Learning 2.0
Social learning is based on the premise that our understanding of content is socially constructed through conversations about that content and through grounded interactions around problems or actions.
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The Architecture of Participation
Tim O'Reilly: I've come to use the term "the architecture of participation" to describe the nature of systems that are designed for user contribution.
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The Anthropocene
Humanity is, in one way or another, becoming a self-conscious, active agent in the operation of its own life support system.
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