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Climate Change Killed Conservation: Can We Still Protect Ecosystems?

I was trained as a conservation biologist, within a well-respected ecology doctoral program in the US. Indeed, I left a successful and…

Jun 29, 2022

Climate Change Killed Conservation: Can We Still Protect Ecosystems?

Jun 29, 2022

John H. Matthews

The Moral Case for Adaptation (for Adaptation and Resilience Professionals)

Last week, I was asked to speak at a conference in a session about what we can learn from failure in the context of adaptation and…

2d ago

The Moral Case for Adaptation (for Adaptation and Resilience Professionals)

2d ago

John H. Matthews

Deep Time in Real Time: Planning for Prosperity in a Shifting Climate

Our planet’s current period of climate change would have fascinated James Hutton, the Scottish father of modern scientific geology, who…

Jul 31

Deep Time in Real Time: Planning for Prosperity in a Shifting Climate

Jul 31

John H. Matthews

Focusing on Our Climate Irrationality

How do we incentivize resilience and the preparation for transformational adaptation? How do we get ready for the big things?

Jul 31

Focusing on Our Climate Irrationality

Jul 31

John H. Matthews

Will We Even Remember Brazil’s 2024 Disaster?

My great grandparents lived on a small island in 1900. Weather forecasting was still new — they had telegraph lines then but no radio, and…

Jun 8

Will We Even Remember Brazil’s 2024 Disaster?

Jun 8

John H. Matthews

Regime Shifts, Climate and Otherwise: Layover in Sudan

The outer doors of the aircraft had just been closed. The hot air inside still smelled liked the desert and jet fuel, blending with the…

Jun 8

Regime Shifts, Climate and Otherwise: Layover in Sudan

Jun 8

John H. Matthews

Resilience as a Market Failure

Is our ongoing exposure to climate risk a market failure? How well do we price shifts in future availability and quality of natural…

May 21

Resilience as a Market Failure

May 21

John H. Matthews

Forest, Forest, Burning Bright

My Rocky Path between Conservation and Climate Resilience

May 21

Forest, Forest, Burning Bright

May 21

John H. Matthews

How Do We Get Climate Issues Mainstreamed across the Private Sector?

Are ESG programs actually incentivizing efforts that accelerate climate change and reduce the likelihood we’ll adapt successfully?

Feb 1

How Do We Get Climate Issues Mainstreamed across the Private Sector?

Feb 1

John H. Matthews

The Two Climate Stories Journalists Track (and the Two They Ignore)

Deep knowledge comes from familiarity with the richness and complexity of an issue, something I have learned personally from working on…

Jan 6

The Two Climate Stories Journalists Track (and the Two They Ignore)

Jan 6

John H. Matthews

John H. Matthews

Resilience scientist. Husband, papa, brother, son. Lover of water. Oregonian. Planetary citizen. http://johnmatthews.work

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