Contributor: Margot Le Guen and Agathe Cavicchioli We landed at Kathmandu’s Tribhuvan International Airport in October 2013 full of expectations. Our knowledge of observed climate changes and projected impacts gleaned from years of academic study […]
Contributor: Will Bugler Global food systems will struggle to adapt to climate change unless urgent action is taken to increase seed diversity, warn advocacy and environmental groups. In a recent report, the Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance […]
Contributor: Paul Basken The gorgeous red tomatoes, piled high in the hot West African sunshine, suggested a huge success. Just two years after the region’s economically vital crop was decimated by a fly-borne virus, university […]
Contributors: John Talberth, Erin Gray, Logan Yonavjak & Todd Gartner Substitution of nature’s services with technological alternatives has been pursued with almost religious zeal as societies have industrialized over the past three centuries. But the […]
Contributor: Will Bugler White sandy beaches, crystal clear seas, coral reefs and guaranteed sunshine. These are the natural assets that ensure that tourists continue to flock to the Islands of the Caribbean. But over the […]
Contributor: Will Bugler Put simply resilience is the ability of a system to absorb shock and carry on performing the function that it was designed to do. The system can be anything from global supply […]
Contributor: Richard Heinberg Evolution can be ruthless in eliminating the unfit. “Red in tooth and claw,” as Tennyson memorably described it; nature routinely sacrifices billions of individual organisms and sometimes entire species in the course […]
Contributor: George Sugihara Rapid shifts are the hallmarks of climate change, epileptic seizures, financial crises and fishery collapses. Deep mathematical principles tie these events together. At a closed meeting held in Boston in October 2009, […]
Contributor: Brian Walker Resilience, in the context of the earth’s ecosystems, is defined as the capacity to absorb a shock, reorganize, and continue to function as before. This basic ability is often taken for granted […]
Contributor: Joseph Cone Excerpted from the preface to Pathways to Resilience: Sustaining Salmon Ecosystems in a Changing World (Oregon Sea Grant, 2012). What is the path we’re on if it’s not a path to resilience? […]
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