Some related links of interest  see dates for relevance

May 2007 Web of  My own Bookmarks
p.henshaw  id @ synapse9. com


Global Sustainability 4/4/06

    There's wide confusion between sustaining the earth and sustaining growth of our uses, with most advocates quite unaware of the it....   Let me know if you find a good ways to tell which is which.

Earth Portal - National Council for Science and the Environment
AAAS Sustainability Web - SustainabilityScience.org
European Sustainability - IES Joint research center
Sustainability Roundtable - US National Acad of Sci

....and among many
Base of the Pyramid Protocol   - Bottom up development
Columbia Earth Observatory - One of many institutes
The Earth Institute at Columbia University -
The UN Millennium Development Goals MDG


Integrated Science Methods 4/4/06

IntSci - Integrated science for sustainability
NRM Improving Community Participation in Environment & Development
Aidsmap Participatory Workshops - Introduction
International Association for Public Participation
Internet Resources For Participatory Action Research
Participation guide@Partnerships Online
Conservation Ecology A Classification of Collaborative Management Methods


Overpopulation and Sustainability Data 4/4/06

EcoFuture (TM) Population and Sustainability
Gapminder Human development trends
Worldmapper  world data maps
Poverty Mapping world data maps
Human Population Growth
Human Populations


Complexity & Emergence 4/4/06

Complexity Digest - Networking the Complexity Community
www.santafe.edu   complexity
Welcome To Trojan Mice
Complex Systems Virtual Library - by themes - Artificial Life
Complexity and Artificial Life Research - Chris Lucas
Quotes & links: Stewart Kaufman, Lee Smolin, John Brockman
Sante Fe Institute: A center for complexity & artificial life
Duke Univ: Center for Non-linear and Complex systems
Emergence - physics of the origin of order
Artificial Intelligence - some similar ideas in approach
Statistical Methods - some links to other shape identification

 


A quirky assortment of outrageous people 4/4/06
(with no separation between those seeing the order physical things as part of and emerging with with them, or not)

Albert Einstein Online
Anthony Campbell's Freethinker Site Home Page
Charles Francis
Crank Dot Net _ science
David Brin's Official Web Site
David Chalmers Common-Sense Physics
Dr. Geoffrey Miller
Dr. Michio Kaku, Physicist and Peace Activist
George Hammond is God
Gladwell dot com -blink, tipping point
Irving Stein, The Foundations of Special Relativity
Johan Galtung
JOHN BROCKMAN
Jonathan Swift 1667-1745
Karl Spence Fair Construction
KurzweilAI.net
Len Troncale
Metafuture.org
Michael Scheuer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Paul Pangaro
Peter Michael Jack hypercomplex
Research Interests, Peter Young
Roger Penrose - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Salthe The Natural Philosophy of Ecology
School of Community & Regional Planning
Shannon's Communication
SRP Explorers- Service de Recherche
T-Factor - Jay Gary - G Land
Weird Science (Bill Beaty's Homepages)
William H. Calvin's Books and Articles
William of Ockham - Medieval History Net Links
Herman Daly, U.MD.
LDEO People Pages


Other Data  4/4/06
NYC My Neighborhood Statistics - Welcome
Access to Web history Internet Archive
 

US Econ Data: 4/4/06
U.S. Department of Commerce. Bureau of Economic Analysis
Data and Data Links Bureau of Labor Statistics Home Page
RePEc Research Papers in Economics


Issues: 4/4/06
All_Models_Are_Wrong - Sterman
Long Bets [ On the Record Bets ]
Capitalism or a habitable planet (email discussion)
seems familiar - conversation with Stan Salthe


Old Stuff mostly as of 4/7/2000
 

Statistical Noise Supression & Curve Fitting

Wavelet methods - uses selective compression and decompression
Time Variable Parameter - curve smoothing using variable frequency filters, P. Young
findings in (Journal of Forecasting "Time-variable Parameter and Trend Estimation in Non-stationary Economic Time Series" V13 Mar 1994 p179-210 ) match DR method findings of second derivative cynchrony in GNP & Unemployment measures
Curve Fitting Alternatives -a general listing of mathematical methods
Parameter-free smoothing - with splines, fast fourier transforms, convolution, non-linear curves


Artificial Intelligence & Pattern Recognition methods

Iterative reconstruction in irregular sampling with derivatives -
Physical Simulation of Bone Joints,
Maximum entropy reconstruction using derivative information part 2: computational results
Shape Space - extensive 1994 bibliography
Multi-scale Image Representation, - an excellent list of state of the art AI & shape representation methods
Pattern Recognition - list of the journal's articles
Cellular Neural Networks - image recognition



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