Researchers (also) caught in the adaptive cycle?
By Tibor Hartel In the last days I scrolled Google Scholar profiles of various researchers. Looking to the citation metrics visualized by Google Scholar I was thinking about the possibility for...
View ArticleReconnecting social-ecological systems: a metaphysical approach
By Tibor Hartel Scientific ‘prolegomena’ The necessity and challenge of reconnecting humanity to biosphere has been addressed in various recent works (e.g. here). In the same time, traditional...
View ArticleThe violinist and the woman or the music of nature conservation in farmland
by Tibor Hartel In a small Hungarian village there was once a man who played the violin every night, while walking up and down the street. People were angry because of this behaviour, but they could...
View ArticleAbout valuing people – quote of the day
by Tibor Hartel Here is a quote for this day from Béla Hamvas, a Hungarian philosopher. Replace ‘people’, ‘true values’ and ‘actorial performances’ from the second sentence with ‘scientists’,...
View ArticleThoughts about rational, irrational and our science
by Tibor Hartel Is the art more rational or more irrational than science? A number of thinkers (including Lucian Blaga, Mircea Eliade, Juhász-Nagy Pál and potentially many others) expressed concerns...
View ArticleAbout nature and people
By Tibor Hartel I am reading the book of Juhász-Nagy Pál entitled “Nature and people: small variations for a big theme” (the book is in Hungarian, the translation of the title is just a trial). In one...
View ArticleAbout interest and passion
Sunday morning thoughts from Béla Hamvas about interests and actions with messages for researchers too – for the not so serious moments series of this blog. I only now start to understand many of his...
View ArticleOn Jesus, resilience, and why not to influence policy
By Joern Fischer The title of this blog entry is a bit all over the place, but I’m aiming for the content to be as crisp as ever. Just a few days ago, an engaged discussion that I had with a colleague...
View ArticleSheepdogs in Romania: blessing or curse?
By Ine Dorresteijn When I first came to Lueneburg, I was warned by my colleagues to be careful with aggressive sheep dogs while doing fieldwork in Romania. My first reaction was, Yeah yeah you are...
View ArticleNew concept in sustainability science: Reverse transdisciplinarity
BY JAN HANSPACH (Health Warning: this is to be read with your sense of humour switched on.) As you can see from Aisa’s very nice last post on this blog, we are currently in the second year of field...
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