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Beekeeping relieves land degradation in Kyrgyzstan
Recording resilience: Filmmaker shares Japan recovery experience
An Our World 2.0 filmmaker reflects on the recovery of tsunami-hit towns.
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Researching resilience: Young scholars look to communities as classrooms
Students of the ProsPER.Net Young Researchers’ School studied first-hand how communities are boosting resilience.
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Engaging indigenous peoples in global climate governance
Local knowledge and indigenous experience are crucial inputs for sound governance and climate change resilience.
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Biocultural resilience for systems change
To ensure our own and our planet’s wellbeing, our actions must be guided by a holistic worldview based on valuing biocultural diversity and resilience.
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Our cooperative Darwinian moment
Darwin tells us we must evolve or die. Can we adapt to scarcity and re-integrate ourselves within ecosystems in the decades ahead?
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Deep roots of community resilience
The resilience of communities in Tohoku, Japan, is a lesson on what the rest of the world can do to prepare for disasters or extreme climate.
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A critical mass for real food
The old slave plantation logic is still the logic of our industrial food system, 500 years in the making, but a new way of thinking is taking off.
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Too many still struggling to meet food and nutrition goals
High food prices could prevent millions of people, particularly children, from escaping poverty and hunger.
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Return to rural communities: Resilience over efficiency
The trickles of people leaving cities for rural areas might reflect a universal consciousness about what may be best for long term survival.
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Put people at core of sustainable development: UN report
A new report by a high-level panel urges leaders to focus on the long-term resilience of planet and people.
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Maya nut could boost resilience to climate change
The Maya nut is one of the few tree species able to adapt to predicted climate changes in tropical forests.
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Transition Fujino — Prospects for a better future
The people of Transition Town Fujino seek ways of making their community resilient.
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The complicated truth about sea level rise
Climate change is indeed happening and sea levels are rising. However, how this will affect the islanders of the world is a complicated story.
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The great transition (beyond carbon)
The terminal depletion of major global energy reserves looms and may well signify the end of industrial civilization as we know it. High time for a Great Transition.
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Resilient Bangladesh: Fishermen cope with rough seas
This video brief, the first in a 3-part series showcasing Bangladeshi resilience in coping with climate change, looks at a fisherman's struggle.
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