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Read Donella Meadows Thinking in Systems pages 141-165. Read: Sir Tim Berners-Lee Long Live the Web: A Call for Continued Open Standards and Neutrality.  

You are invited to the preview of THE SEVEN BILLIONTH CITIZEN a video project curated by John Gillett and Beth Harland, in response to the United Nations announcement of the birth of the seven billionth citizen. The project was organized in collaboration with the ESRC Centre for Population Change, University of Southampton, and Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, […]

Read Donella Meadows Thinking in Systems pages 122-141 Read Erlich & Erlich (2013) Can a collapse of global civilization be avoided?, Proceedings of the Royal Society B. A PDF of the article can be downloaded here.

On Wednesday 17th April,  Professor Doyne Farmer, University of Oxford will give the talk “The economics of sustainability”. Building 53 Room 4025, Highfield Campus, 4-5pm. Refreshments served after the talk. Abstract: “Achieving sustainability requires understanding the complex interactions between a vast number of systems including climate, economics, technological progress, geology, ecology, space science, population control, […]

Read Donella Meadows Thinking in Systems pages 109-121 Read Elinor Ostrom et al (2012) The Future of the Commons. PDF available for download here.  

A Word template for the Individual Report that includes some details about sections and questions is available for download here: UOSM2010 Individual Report The Individual Reports are due to be handed in no later than 17th May 2013. I will discuss the Individual Report along with the other assessments in class next week.    

Read Donella Meadows Thinking in Systems pages 87-108. Read Tim Jackson Prosperity without Growth? – The transition to a sustainable economy SDC Reports & Papers pages 1-15. Visit www.debategraph.org. A great utility for viewing the interactions and connections between a wide range of issues (some of them our global challenges).    

Read Meadows Thinking in Systems pages 85 to 100. Watch Connections: Trigger Effect. This is episode 1 of James Burkes’ 10 part BBC documentary series.

I have been very impressed by the group project pitches and the ideas that are bubbling up during group work. It’s time to nail down some of the details. By the 13th March 2013 I would like approximately 2 pages of A4 from each group that will contain the following: A slightly extended pitch. This […]

Read Meadows Thinking in Systems pages 72-85. This section discusses notions of resilience, self-organisation and hierarchy. Watch A short introduction of resilience from the Stockholm Resilience Centre here. A list of resilience related videos can be found here.