Latest Ocean science Podcast Episodes
Employing a data-led approach to resilience
Rethink Talks - December 08, 2022 08:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsDoes practice make perfect? Do countries become more resilient to disasters the more they experience them? Or does their resilience break down when disasters strike again and again? Today’s guest is Sarah Cumbers, Evidence and Insight Director at the Lloyds Register Foundation. She shares the l...
Human use of the ocean: Limit- and lawless?
Rethink Talks - November 18, 2022 08:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThe seas are getting crowded. As commercial use of the ocean accelerates exponentially and climate change impacts worsen, marine ecosystems and coastal communities are feeling unprecedented pressures. The ocean has been a source of food since the dawn of time, it facilitates our modern communica...
Facing a triple crisis: Food, climate and conflict
Rethink Talks - November 16, 2022 08:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsFood insecurity, climate change and conflict are placing considerable pressure on the global food system. Inequality, access to land, access to nutrient-rich foods, and the loss of local food cultures and diversity are realities further amplified in the new risk landscape. These challenges are a...
Imagining a resilient climate future through video games
Rethink Talks - November 10, 2022 08:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWhat if decision-makers could live through and feel the future consequences of climate change in action today? Would it influence their policy choices? And could gaming or virtual reality simulations help to prioritize action in climate adaptation and resilience building? Video games have evolv...
Water can make or break climate action
Rethink Talks - November 07, 2022 08:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsDroughts, storms or sea water rise – climate change takes its form almost always through a change in water. But water is more than just a destructive force, it is the bloodstream of the biosphere. In this episode Lan Wang Erlandsson, a researcher at the Stockholm Resilience Centre, shares with ...
Succeeding with large-scale transformations
Rethink Talks - December 09, 2021 12:59 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsHow can systemic transformations be achieved at the scale, speed, and quality that is needed? And what capacities are required to navigate these transformations? In this episode, Stockholm Resilience Centre researcher Per Olsson talks to Funda Sezgi and François Bonnici about the frontiers of t...
Who are the real experts of climate change adaptation?
Rethink Talks - October 12, 2021 10:04 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThe sixth IPCC report sent a clear message: we are one minute to midnight and the rate and scale of action that is required is immense. However, all too often, the solutions presented are top-down and framed in an outdated North-South perspective. We need voices from the climate change frontline...
What does a healthy ocean really look like?
Rethink Talks - July 31, 2021 05:56 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsNo matter where in the world you live, your life is affected by the ocean. But many of our oceans are sick, and have been so for a while. So what’s keeping them from bouncing back to full health? Well, it’s partly down to not agreeing on what a healthy ocean actually looks like that makes it har...
Carl Folke on resilience, the biosphere and the future of our planet
Rethink Talks - July 17, 2021 09:04 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsHow did we get to where we are today and what will it take to move away from it? In this episode, Owen Gaffney talks to Carl Folke, a co-founder of the Stockholm Resilience Centre and one of the most cited scientists in the world across all disciplines. He is also the director of the Beijer Inst...
Communicating science in the age of the Anthropocene
Rethink Talks - July 03, 2021 05:25 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThe age of humans is messing things up in many different ways. Not only is human pressure on the environment changing the earth system in unprecedented ways, trust in science is faltering while media and journalism remains fragmented. The consequence is a siloed world at a time when trust and co...
Will the Ocean Science Decade help make our oceans healthy again?
Rethink Talks - June 19, 2021 05:57 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThe ocean has gone from infinite, wild and thriving to finite, fragile and full of garbage. It feeds us, generates most of the air we breathe, helps to regulate our climate, provides treatments for disease and represents a new economic frontier. But we have limited time to get people to pay atte...
Communicating the complex science behind the planetary boundaries
Rethink Talks - June 05, 2021 05:40 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn 2009, 28 internationally renowned scientists identified nine processes that regulate the stability and resilience of the entire planet. Provided we stay within these boundaries, humanity can continue to develop and thrive for generations to come. Since its launch the planetary boundaries fram...
Rethink Talks trailer
Rethink Talks - June 01, 2021 06:51 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsFrom pandemics to production supply chains: how do we make sense of the complex world we live in? Every month, we bring together the best thinkers and practitioners within resilience thinking and sustainability science, to discuss how we can achieve a sustainable §planet that enables well-being f...
In the SDGs, where have biodiversity and ecosystem services gone?
Rethink Talks - May 22, 2021 04:45 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsDespite the world entering the last decade to meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) biodiversity and ecosystem services remain chronically undervalued and largely missing. As the world is entering the last decade to meet the goals, a change in thinking and approach is needed. In this ep...
Making change and transformation really happen
Rethink Talks - May 08, 2021 08:03 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWithin calls for transformation, there seems to be a hunger - a hunger to slow down, spend time healing, and to feel more connected; to ourselves, to each other, and to the ecosystems we are a part of. But how can that happen? And can we create that kind of healing at scales large enough that i...
Our oceans are suffering, how can we make them healthy again?
Rethink Talks - March 25, 2021 09:56 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsNo matter where in the world you live, your life is affected by the ocean. But many of our oceans are sick, and have been so for a while. So what’s keeping them from bouncing back to full health? Well, it’s partly down to not agreeing on what a healthy ocean actually looks like that makes it ha...
The 2020 Human Development Report
Rethink Talks - December 14, 2020 09:05 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsEvery year since 1990, the United Nations Development Programme has published the Human Development Report. The report has increasingly emphasised the links between the environment and human development, and today, on its 30th anniversary, it shows more than ever the importance of a stable clima...
What it takes to make science and business connect
Rethink Talks - December 03, 2020 16:53 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsScience and industry have much to gain from working more closely together. But their methods and expectations can sometimes feel worlds apart. What makes them so different and what is needed to create more successful collaborations? In this episode Lisen Schultz, deputy director of transdiscipl...
After COVID-19: imagining a safe and just future for all
Rethink Talks - November 11, 2020 09:36 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsRight now, the very idea of imagining the future might feel strange when the world is changing in ways we barely even understand. In this episode, we ask, is a safe and just future for all still possible? And what will it take to imagine and enact these kinds of futures? Host Andrew Merrie is ...
The future after COVID-19
Rethink Talks - November 11, 2020 09:36 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsRight now, the very idea of imagining the future might feel strange when the world is changing in ways we barely even understand. In this episode, we ask, is a safe and just future for all still possible? And what will it take to imagine and enact these kinds of futures? Host Andrew Merrie is joi...
Building business resilience: what has Covid-19 taught us?
Rethink Talks - October 07, 2020 12:47 - 3 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsEconomies around the world have been shaken by the COVID-19 pandemic and revealed serious vulnerabilities and weaknesses. What can we learn from today’s crisis to build more resilience into our systems? In this episode, host Robert Blasiak talks to Lisen Schultz from the Stockholm Resilience Ce...
What COVID-19 says about our world
Rethink Talks - October 05, 2020 07:48 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis episode of Rethink Talk takes a deep dive into what COVID-19 says about our world and what change it may trigger. Read more: www.rethink.earth/crisis-and-renewal-what-covid-19-says-about-our-world See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Crisis and renewal: what COVID-19 says about our world
Rethink Talks - October 05, 2020 07:48 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsCovid-19 has brought the modern world to its knees. How did we get to this point? This episode of Rethink Talk takes a deep dive into what the coronavirus pandemic says about our world and the change it may go on to trigger. Host Louise Hård Af Segerstad talks to three experts on change and tra...
Building back better: economic decision-making after COVID-19
Rethink Talks - September 14, 2020 06:14 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsCOVID-19 has forced governments to take unprecedented steps to recover their economies. At the same time, some parts of the private sector warn they may have to park long-term climate ambitions just to keep their heads above water. This has potentially devastating consequences for sustainability...
Building back better: economic and financial decision-making after COVID-19
Rethink Talks - September 14, 2020 06:14 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsCOVID-19 has forced governments to take unprecedented steps to recover their economies. At the same time, some parts of the private sector warn they may have to park long-term climate ambitions just to keep their heads above water. This has potentially devastating consequences for sustainability...
Social resilience during a crisis
Rethink Talks - August 31, 2020 13:29 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsCOVID-19 is a devastating example of a crisis which ripples through regions and countries, affecting pretty much all aspects of our lives. Although impacts of the pandemic have hit some communities harder than others, especially in the global south, we are seeing signs of resilience emerging fro...
Social resilience during times of crisis
Rethink Talks - August 31, 2020 13:29 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsCOVID-19 is a devastating example of a crisis which ripples through regions and countries, affecting pretty much all aspects of our lives. Although impacts of the pandemic have hit some communities harder than others, especially in the global south, we are seeing signs of resilience emerging fro...
While all eyes are on COVID-19, the Amazon forest is burning
Rethink Talks - June 24, 2020 19:28 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThe corona virus has been described as the biggest challenge the world has faced since World War II. Yet while all eyes are on this devastating pandemic, the Amazon forest is burning to the point of becoming a planetary emergency. This episode looks at deforestation and the looming risk of large...
While all eyes are on COVID-19, the Amazon forest is burning
Rethink Talks - June 24, 2020 19:28 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThe corona virus has been described as the biggest challenge the world has faced since World War II. Yet while all eyes are on this devastating pandemic, the Amazon forest is burning to the point of becoming a planetary emergency. This episode looks at deforestation and the looming risk of large...
Misinformation, disinformation and sense making in crisis
Rethink Talks - June 23, 2020 15:12 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsDigital technologies have created an information deluge. It is impossible to keep up with the flood. But digital technologies have also changed the flow of information in the world; the old gatekeepers like the media are now bypassed. What does this mean during a crisis when we need to make rapi...
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