Welcome to the Social-Ecological Resilience Project
The Socio-Ecological Resilience Project is a research project under the Ecosophy Program of the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN), Inter-University Research Institute Corporation National Institutes for the Humanities, Ministry of Education. The project is a multidisciplinary research aiming at tackling challenging issues of poverty, human security and environmental degradations in a semi-arid area's rainfed agricultural economy that is highly vulnerable to climate and other environmental variability. The project involves researchers from various disciplines and from various international communities.
Short name: Resilience Project
Keywords: resilience, poverty, social-ecological system, resource management, environmental variability, vulnerability, human security, semi-arid tropics
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| 8th June 2010 | The 44th RIHN Seminar and the 31st Resilience Seminar Tom P. Evans, RHIN Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Geography, Indiana University Title: Food Security, Climate Variability and Land Use in Zambia : Methods for Spatial Analysis and Modeling Vulnerability and Resilience of Smallholder Systems Thursday, June 17th, 2010, 13:30-15:00 (8 June 2010, Uploaded) |
| 2nd April 2010 | The 30th Resilience Seminar Masaaki Hirai (Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University) Title: Resilience of Ecological Resource and Livelihood: A case of the Sereer in Senegal Apr. 10th, 2010, 16:00-17:30 (2 April 2010, Uploaded) |
| 8th March 2010 | International Workshop on "The Indian Ocean Tsunami: 5 Years Later": Successfully Completed
The Social-Ecological Resilience Project successfully held an international workshop on "The Indian Ocean Tsunami: 5 Years Later" at the Hotel Grand Pacific (formerly called the Allson Hotel), Singapore on March 3rd, 2010. The workshop was attended by researchers and policy makers from India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Singapore,Thailand and Japan. Objectives, presenters, paper title and abstract can be found here. (8 March 2010, Uploaded) |
| 8th December 2009 | International Workshop on The Indian Ocean Tsunami: 5 Years Later The Social-Ecological Resilience Project is organizing an international workshop on "The Indian Ocean Tsunami: 5 Years Later" at the Allson Hotel, Singapore from March 1-3, 2010. The workshop aims at assessing the vulnerability and resilience of the Tsunami affected coastal regions. For more details, please click here. (8 December 2009, Uploaded) |
| 30th October 2009 | The 29th Resilience Seminar Yoshitake Shinbo (Managing Director, Technical Support Office for Rural Development in Kinki District, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Japan) Title: Agriculture and Rural Community of Africa as Object of Technical Cooperation October 30th, 2009, 17:00-18:00 (4 November 2009, Uploaded) |
| 13th October 2009 | Elinor Ostrom Won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences!
Professor Elinor Ostrom of Indiana University has become the first female to win the Nobel Prize in economics. The prize is shared by professor Oliver Williamson of UC Berkeley. They won the award for their seminal work in the field of economic governance.
Congratulations to professor Ostrom and professor Williamson!!! (13 October 2009, Uploaded)
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| 28th August 2009 | The 2nd Lusaka Workshop on Social-Ecological Resilience Was a Success.
The RIHN's Resilience Project together with Zambia Agriculture Research Institute (ZARI) jointly organized the second Resilience Workshop on the 28th August 2009 at Mika Lodge, Zambia. More than 50 participants from various countries such as Japan, USA, Kenya, Zimbabwe and Zambia attended the workshop in a lively and insightful discussion atmosphere. The workshop was privileged to have Dr. Elizabeth Colson, a UC Berkeley's emerita professor who has studied Zambia's Tonga since 1950s, in attendance to provide comments.
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28th August 2009 |
The 2nd Lusaka Workshop on Social-Ecological Resilience Organized by: Resilience Project, RIHN and Zambia Agricultural Research Institute (ZARI) For further information and program, please click here.
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3rd August 2009 |
The 28th Resilience Seminar Titel: A Spatial Structure for the Institutional Analysis of Common Pool Resource Systems August 3rd, 2009, 15:00-16:00 (24 July 2009, Uploaded) |
| 8th July 2009 | The 27th Resilience Seminar Dr. C.R. Ranganathan (Professor, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India) Title: Quantifying the impact of climatic change on yields and yield variability of major crops and optimal land allocation for maximizing food production in different agro-climatic zones of Tamil Nadu, India: An Econometric Approach July 8th, 2009, 15:00-16:00 RIHN Seminar Room 3, 4 Held in English (25 June 2009, Uploaded) |
| 12th April 2010 | Core members meeting and the 30th Resilience Seminar held at the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Seminar room 1-2, on 10th April 2010
Working Paper on Social-Ecological Resilience Series, No. 2009-011 has been published. |
| 8th March 2010 | Core members meeting and the Working Group Resilience Seminar held at the Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies (ASAFAS), Kyoto University, on 26th February 2010
Working Paper on Social-Ecological Resilience Series No 2009-010 has been published. |
| 4th December 2009 | Core members meeting held at the Faculty of Agriculture, Kyoto University
Working Paper on Social-Ecological Resilience Series No 2009-009 has been published. |
| 11th August 2009 | The Resilience Alliance's workbook for an assessment of social-ecological resilience has been translated into Japanese by the team at the RIHN's Resilience Project. The Resilience Project has made the final draft version of the workbook available for downloading to solicit feedback from the community.
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| 7th August 2009 | Core members meeting held at RIHN. Working Paper on Social-Ecological Resilience Series No 2009-008 has been published. |
20th July 2009 |
Dr. C.R. Ranganathan (Department of Physical Sciences and Information Technology, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University), an invited research fellow, and his wife, Geetha, returned to India.
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13th July 2009 |
Dr. Tom Evans (Department of Geography, Indiana University), a project member, arrived at RIHN.
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27-30 Apr 2009 |
Seven project members participated in the IHDP Open Meeting 2009, the 7th International Science Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change at the World Conference Center, UN Campus, Bonn, Germany under the theme “Social Challenges of Global Change”. Six oral presentations and one poster presentation were made.
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| 19 Apr 2009 | Dr. C.R. Ranganathan (Department of Physical Sciences and Information Technology, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University) arrived at RIHN as an invited research fellow. |
| Apr 2009 | Working Paper on Social-Ecological Resilience Series No 2009-007 has been published. |
| 11 Apr 2009 | Core member meeting, RIHN. |
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