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R. Dominguez-Faus and others analyze the impact of different biofuels on water in the USA in their article in Envir. Science and Technology, The Water Footprint of Biofuels: A Drink or Drive Issue? (doi:10.1021/es802162x). The figure below, from the paper, shows the substantial ecological ...
Environment
Water Conservation
Edward Wolf offers a trio of books reviews about planetary transformation and systems at Worldchanging in Straight Talk for the Planetary Era:
Diplomats from 193 countries prepare to hammer out a global climate treaty in Copenhagen. But few expect this year’s activism, politics, or diplomacy to ...
Environment
Worldchanging
Complex systems scientist Cosma Shalizi reviews economic journalist Justin Fox’s book The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street for American Scientist magazine in the article Twilight of the Efficient Markets:
The Myth of the Rational Market, ...
Energy/Transportation
Energy Crisis
In a Perspective in Science, Nancy Dise reviews how the response of peatlands to global change will be complex (doi:10.1126/science.1174268). She writes:
Research from a variety of areas and approaches is converging upon the concept of peatlands as complex adaptive systems: self-regulating to ...
Environment
Climate Change
Nancy Sutley
Nitrogen deposition is increased the extent to which lake algal populations are regulated by phosphorus, shifting lake food webs. Because, the patterns of human amplification of nitrogen and phosphorus trasport are different this should drive different patterns in lakes in different ...
Other
Following up on a previous post about the resilience of the Nasca, the New York Times reports on the continued destruction of the huarango in the present day.
The huarango, a giant relative of the mesquite tree of the American Southwest, survived the rise and fall of Pre-Hispanic civilizations, ...
Other
The Financial Times suggests that the IEA agrees with Herman Daly (at least a little bit), in Did oil cause the latest recession? IEA weighs into the debate:
A feature in the draft executive summary of the IEA’s World Energy Outlook, which will be published tomorrow, revisits this argument and ...
Energy/Transportation
Energy Crisis
Oil Drilling
World Energy
The concept of resilience appears to be really spreading. One interesting group of people attempting to build resilience in specific communities is the Transition town movement. A global network of communities each of which is attempting to build their resilience to climate change and peak oil ...
Environment
In an interview with Terry Bisson, science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson talks about the importance of writing about utopias:
Terry Bisson: My favorite of that series is Pacific Edge, the utopia of the series. What’s yours? Are there any particular problems in writing a utopia?
Kim Stanley ...
Environment
The Edge
Jon Foley argues for the integration of industrial and organic agriculture to meet the challenge of rising demand for agriculture production in a turbulent world in Room for Debate Blog on Can Biotech Food Cure World Hunger?
… Currently, there are two paradigms of agriculture being widely ...
Green Living
Jon Stewart
Organic Food
The Economists looks at recent declines in fertility discusses current projections of world population, and how changes in a country’s demographic structure shape its economic development (but it doesn’t mention the role of urbanization). In Fertility and living standards it ...
Other
How innovative uses of simple information and communication technologies can build resilience.
Green Living
New York
Niger
From Neil Adger writes to announce three exciting research positions at UEA.
Three Lecturer Posts Ref: ATR842 (£37,651 to £43,622 per annum)
These new academic staff appointments at UEA have been created as a result of substantial new investments in the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change ...
Environment
Climate Change
A paper by David Beresford-Jones and others (Latin American Antiquity 20, 303–33) that argues that deforestation, particularly of the deep rooted huarango, caused the Nazca civilization of Peru to loose their resilience to El Niño floods. On the BBC David Beresford-Jones says:
The huarango tree ...
Environment
Chinese environmental photographer Lu Guang won the 2009 W. Eugene Smith grant in humanistic photography for his for his project, “Pollution in China.” (For more information and photos see NYTime’s Lens blog , and China Hush).
The W. Eugene Smith award recognizes photographers “who have ...
Environment
China
In a recent article, Intergenerational Wealth Transmission and the Dynamics of Inequality in Small-Scale Societies, by Monique Borgerhoff Mulder and colleagues (Science 326, 682 (2009) show the role of wealth sharing institutions, such as common property, in shaping the dynamics of inequality in ...
Other
Environmental historian, John R. McNeill, reviews Marten Scheffer’s new book on resilience - Critical Transitions in Nature and Society. In the American Scientist he writes:
Like many before him, Marten Scheffer is impressed with parallels between social systems and natural systems. ...
Other
WWF-US is pleased to announce the availability of Kathryn Fuller Fellowships for 2010. For nearly 50 years WWF has committed to delivering science-based conservation results while incorporating the latest research and innovations into our work. As part of its commitment to advancing conservation ...
Other
The second Diversitas Open Science Conference was recently held in Capetown South Africa. Eminent South African ecologist from Harry Biggs, writes What I learnt from the Diversitas Conference:
• Governance issues (esp. science-policy and science-management links) have become far more ...
Environment
In a new paper, Parametric Estimations of the World Distribution of Income, Maxim Pinkovskiy and Xavier Sala-i-Martin revisit previous work by Sala-i-Martin, and estimate that globally income has substantially increased, reducing the number of people living in extreme poverty, and become more ...
