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Big Dams and Climate Change: A Debate
21/03/12 14:04
I did not personally attend this session though I was in Marseille at the same time, but a colleague sent a link this morning to a debate at the World Water Forum last week on big dams and their role in maintaining or creating climate resilience:
http://www.worldwaterforum6.org/en/gallery/videos/forum-sessions-and-conferences/friday-16-march/?id=308
(scroll to the bottom of the screen to the third of the three YouTube vidoes to watch the debate, which itself is divided into eight or nine segments)
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http://www.worldwaterforum6.org/en/gallery/videos/forum-sessions-and-conferences/friday-16-march/?id=308
(scroll to the bottom of the screen to the third of the three YouTube vidoes to watch the debate, which itself is divided into eight or nine segments)
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CCW.org and ClimatePrep.org interview Jared Diamond: Where do we go from here?
01/06/11 15:31
Last October, my friend and colleague Eliot Levine from ClimatePrep.org and I sat down and talked with world-renowned conservation biologist Jared Diamond and author of Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse (as well as many other publications) and asked him to look forward in time: how do we cope with the coming climate change impacts globally? What kinds of choices do we face? What risks do we face? Our questions to Diamond focused on finding the emerging issues that we in the developed world, the developing world, and all humans globally face as we move forward.
Given who was interviewing him and the scope of the issues we were discussing, Diamond prominently mentions water as a fundamental adaptation problem. Our discussion lasted about an hour and a half and was both wide ranging and rich. Hence a length of 11 minutes.
Given who was interviewing him and the scope of the issues we were discussing, Diamond prominently mentions water as a fundamental adaptation problem. Our discussion lasted about an hour and a half and was both wide ranging and rich. Hence a length of 11 minutes.
Video: Conservation portfolios for climate adaptation - Daniel Schindler, University of Washington
07/01/10 16:38
In this video, Daniel Schindler of the University of Washington discusses his research on ecosystem changes in response to climate change and the importance of heterogeneity. Schindler is a fisheries ecologist who works on a wide range of topics, especially with salmonids and plankton in the Pacific Northwest of the North America. Read More...
Islands on the Edge: Climate Resilience and the Sundarbans of South Asia
14/08/08 11:41
April 2009: Note that some progress has been made — after reading the entry below, read the update here.
When I was an academic biologist, I certainly felt passionately about climate change, but (a) no one really listened to me, (b) I could say pretty much anything I wanted without fear of repercussion (or hope for influence), and (c) most of the impacts seemed -- ultimately -- rather theoretical. That’s no longer the case. I frequently give talks where I have to fight the urge to suppress strong feelings, usually anger or grief. Normally I do a pretty good job. But the feelings are there, whether or not they’re visible. Perhaps the most moving climate-related conversation occurred last April in New Delhi, about a place that I knew almost nothing about before a year ago: the network of islands off the Bangladeshi and eastern Indian coasts called the Sundarbans. They are arguaby among the most important and threatened ecosystems on the planet today. Read More...
When I was an academic biologist, I certainly felt passionately about climate change, but (a) no one really listened to me, (b) I could say pretty much anything I wanted without fear of repercussion (or hope for influence), and (c) most of the impacts seemed -- ultimately -- rather theoretical. That’s no longer the case. I frequently give talks where I have to fight the urge to suppress strong feelings, usually anger or grief. Normally I do a pretty good job. But the feelings are there, whether or not they’re visible. Perhaps the most moving climate-related conversation occurred last April in New Delhi, about a place that I knew almost nothing about before a year ago: the network of islands off the Bangladeshi and eastern Indian coasts called the Sundarbans. They are arguaby among the most important and threatened ecosystems on the planet today. Read More...
