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Watching the Numbers and Charting the Losses — of Species | NYT
The bottom line is that what is good for biodiversity is also good for humanity.
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Adaptive Cycle
The adaptive cycle represents the four ecosystem functions and the flow of events among them.
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Resilience Thinking
Life is full of surprises. Sometimes we take them in stride; some times they trip us up. Resilience thinking offers a fresh way of understanding the world around us and of managing our natural resources.
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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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"Travels with Buzz" Documentary
Filmmaker Dick Bocking recorded many conversations with Resilience Alliance founder Buzz Holling and compiled this documentary in 2006.
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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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Panarchy
Two kinds of connections are critical in creating and sustaining adaptive capability: revolt and remembrance.
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Winter Storms and Shifting Baselines
The term shifting baseline refers to the limited timescales of personal experiences.
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Modularity: Small Pieces Loosely Joined
Modularity is one of a handful of factors – including feedback, diversity and redundancy – that bolster social and ecological resilience.
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Biofuel Production Reduces Ecosystem Services | PNAS
From 2006 to 2007, corn acreage increased 19% nationally, resulting in reduced crop diversity in many areas.
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Resilient Cities
If a city wanted to set about deliberately developing the quality of resilience, could it do so?
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Collapse and Renewal
These are the lessons I have learned that help in the process of dealing with turbulence.
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Not Wrong, Just Incomplete
I find an appealing sense of graciousness in this phrase: "not wrong, just incomplete."
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Adaptive Cycle in 3D
The adaptive cycle can be plotted against the system's potential, connectedness and resilience.
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A National Ecological Network for Research and Education | Science
NEON seeks to launch ecological research and education platforms simultaneously in a way that improves ecological forecasting.
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Humans Need Biodiversity | Science
Unlike fluctuating oil prices, declining species populations or outright extinctions do not have immediate, tangible impact on the cost of travel, food, or heat.
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Willie Smits: How We Re-Grew a Rainforest | TED
Smits believes that to rebuild orangutan populations, we must first rebuild their forest habitat -- which means helping local people find options other than the short-term fix of harvesting forests to survive.
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Charles Kennel: Globally, Regionally, Locally | Issues in Science and Technology
Not only will climate change affect each community differently, but each community has a unique combination of environmental, economic, and social factors and its own ways of reaching decisions.
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Susanne Moser: Barriers and Limitations to Adaptation Posed by Governance | IHDP
The study raises difficult, if not “taboo” questions about the multiple and sometimes conflicting roles of government, the effectiveness of governance, contradictions in coastal law, and constitutional obstacles, that must be addressed if coastal regions want to effectively meet the challenges of adapting to climate change.
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