Ecosystem Antifragility
Channel: Oliver López-Corona
Date: 24/03/2022

Ecology is a key field to understand our natural environment and how we relate with it. Nevertheless unlike classical mechanics that are fully described by Newton’s Laws or Electromagnetic Theory described by Maxwell’s equations, more than a century after it first appeared on the scene, Ecology today still appears to be too diverse and conflicted to be able to coalesce around any one coherent theory, said Ulanowicz once. This seminar will try to summarize the path I’ve been following with my colleagues for more than a decade in the pursuit of understanding ecosystems as complex systems, how can we achieve a sustainable management of them, what this may teach us also about the foundation of complex systems and finally what does ecosystem health means and how it could be measured. I’m convinced that we have arrived to a universal conceptualization of health valid for different systems and scales, whether it is human or animal health, ecosystem health or even planetary health. In this journey, by keeping loyal to some sort of childish curiosity and trying to avoid getting stuck in research corners, I think that I have become some sort of levy-walker, so few big jumps may appear here and there. Some more attention will be made on our latest work about planetary antifragility. Of course this talk is not the end of the journey but a recount of what has been explored so far. An exciting far unknown horizon still ahead.

Press: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1BEW6UXg3amXdbQF3bI4SOck2sCjZ14qzMQmY6ElWyfY/edit?usp=sharing