Summer school Modelling environmental resilience

Financially supported by PSL Reseach University Paris and organised by CERES of the Ecole Normale Supérieure.

This summer school, held in the heart of Paris at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS), aims to bring together a group of 25 participants with a strong interest in environmental science and with backgrounds in quantitative sciences from across a range of disciplines (ecology, geosciences, physics, agronomy, economics, geography, etc). The objective is to expose the group to a number of views on the concept of “resilience” of environmental systems. The school offers in-depth courses on the meaning, modeling and application of the idea of resilience in a range of environmental topics including ecology, oceanography, climate, agriculture, philosophy, anthropology and geography. An important part of the summer school is the participation in one of the working groups, where participants work together with one or more lecturers.

Mick Follows  (MIT, USA) Resilience of global carbon and nutrient cycles 
Michael Ghil (ENS, France and UCLA, USA) The mathematical foundations of resilience and its applications to the climate sciences and economics
André de Roos (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Resilience and alternative stable states in ecological systems
Miguel Altieri (UC Berkeley, USA) Fostering socio-ecological resilience in agroecosystems

Benoit Hazard (EHESS, France),
Clara Nicholls (UC Berkeley, USA),
Magali Reghezza-Zit (ENS, France),
Frédéric Worms (ENS, France)