Useful links

Here are some useful links to organisations/ projects/business and publications that are currently addressing risk and/or resilience

The Resilience Alliance

The Resilience Alliance is a multidisciplinary research group that explores the dynamics of complex adaptive systems

The Stockholm Resilience Centre

Research for Governance of Social-Ecological Systems

Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience

Durham University

Today's world: Fastest rate of carbon dioxide rise over the last 50,000 years
Today's rate of atmospheric carbon dioxide increase is 10 times faster than at any other point in the past 50,000 years, researchers have found through a detailed chemical analysis of ancient Antarctic ice.
Island birds more adaptable than previously thought
The researchers found that birds were more evolutionarily similar on smaller, more isolated islands than on larger, less remote places. The team had expected to find that forested areas had more numerous and more varied species of birds compared to farmland areas. But they were surprised to find that the opposite was true: Areas with […]
The price tag of phasing-out coal
Coal phase-out is necessary to solve climate change, but can have negative impacts on workers and local communities dependent on coal for their livelihoods. Researchers have studied government plans for coal phase-out around the world and discovered that more than half of such plans include monetary compensation to affected parties. This planned compensation globally amounts […]