Yue Dou is completing her PhD degree in the department of Geography and Environmental Management at the University of Waterloo. She is working with Dr. Peter Deadman on the project “Sociocultural Adaptation of Caboclos Communities to Extreme Tidal Events in the Amazon Estuary of Brazil” funded by International Development Research Centre (IDRC). Quite ambitious, the […]
Continue Reading →
Speaker: Marten Scheffer
Title: Early Warning Signs for Critical Transitions
Date: Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Category: Talk
Professor Marten Scheffer of Wageningen University discusses his research on how to discern generic early-warning signals in complex systems that indicate a critical threshold is approaching. Such research is important because tipping points can cause […]
Continue Reading →
Facebook
Twitter
