Geospatial Analysis of Carbon Offset Projects - A Broader Scientific Outlook
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https://www.eldhollow.com/blogs/geospatial-analysis-of-carbon-offset-projects <-- shared technical blog
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[this post should not be considered an endorsement of a particular organisation, rather scrutinising the spatial use case & technical approach]
H/T @kyle Arvisais | Forest Carbon Scientist
“Geospatial analysis is at the core of [the H/T’s company’s] project quality assessments, and [the author is] constantly finding ways to make the pipeline better and ways to use it. [They are] obviously not the only one who uses these types of tools, but to be perfectly honest, the quality of models [they have] seen over the years has been all over the place.
This blog makes a casual introduction to [their] pipeline while talking about the field at large…”
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“The world has committed to protecting and restoring nature at an unprecedented scale. Whether that commitment delivers what it promises comes down project execution on the ground. Local socioeconomics and forest ecology intertwine to create complex challenges for projects to overcome during implementation, and at the end of the day, projects boil all of these complexities down to one single unit: the carbon credit. So the question becomes: can we actually measure what is happening to a forest, accurately and honestly, and everywhere at once?
For a long time, the honest answer has been no. Historically, many forest carbon projects overstated their impact. Usually it was because the baseline was too generous, or because the measurements underneath were flawed. For anyone with a stake in nature markets, that uncertainty is one of the core risks.
Robust geospatial analysis can help mitigate that risk. If you treat a carbon credit as what it really is, a scientific claim, then we can hold it to that standard and assess it objectively. [Their] geospatial pipeline turns satellite data and ground truth data into models about how much forest is standing, how it is changing, and what might put it at risk in the future. The pipeline does this anywhere on Earth…”
#GIS #spatial #mapping #usecase #carbonoffset #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #qualityassessment #objectivity #projectpipeline #model #modeling #application #nature #environment #ecosystems #ecology #local #regional #factors #socioeconomics #forestecology #vegetation #forest #tree #carboncredit #climatechange #climatecrisis #forestcarbonprojects #global
#socioeconomics — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #socioeconomics, aggregated by home.social.
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An MRI study of brain structure and function in almost 12,000 children aged 9-10, and 649 lifestyle variables, found that socioeconomic factors were the largest correlate with variations in brain function (at 16%). Changes were greatest in sensorimotor regions susceptible to stress and fatigue. Controlled for socioeconomics, IQ and brain structure were unrelated.
Summary: https://neurosciencenews.com/socioeconomics-child-brain-development-iq-30870/
Original paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aee6213
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The real reason I still use "real" cameras instead of cameraphones, is because no camera brand makes cameraphones.
Except Sony; or at least they did. Even Sony had to eventually cut back on photography-centric design to cater to the overwhelming Tiktok and AI-ridden consumer market.
Every phone manufacturer today boasts cutting-edge camera technology, only to be crippled by camera software that has little to do with photography.
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Steve Jobs on our collective reliance on historical human innovation, and the absolute necessity of contributing back to the global pool of human experience.
Credit: Steve Jobs Archive
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Steve Jobs on our collective reliance on historical human innovation, and the absolute necessity of contributing back to the global pool of human experience.
Credit: Steve Jobs Archive
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Langiage matters and why I think I hate AI is a valid generalized rsponse:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEsPFitSfaA&lc=UgybQMI1XXL_MXT1M7x4AaABAg#AI as a catch all phrase for fast but still extremely stupid software (slop in slop out) and as a tool/valid synonym to completely obliterate the public conversation where you need tools and a social contract (both absent so far) to have an honest conversation and preserve comprehension and the recognition of facts ... I hate AI is fitting!
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I find it very two-faced, that our societies are all about "incentives" when poor people have to be coarsed off public support, but nothing is said about them when it's the rich people who should behave civil and contribute.
It's all mandatory to the poor and all voluntary to the rich.
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What Shapes Earthquake Risk In Bangladesh? Geospatial Insights From Physical And Social Factors Using A Spatial Meta-Regression Approach
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s41748-026-01089-4 <-- shared paper
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#EarthquakeRisk #GIS #Bangladesh #DisasterManagement #SEAsia #GIS #spatial #mapping #risk #hazard #earthquake #naturalhazard #urban #rural #infrastructure #publicsafety #model #modeling #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #geomorphology #geology #tectonics #social #cultural #demographics #fault #faulting #factoranalysis #seismichazard #model #modeling #socioeconomics #geophysics #remotesensing #geostatistics #landuse #framework #magnitude #engineering #buildingcode #mitigation #zoning #development #growth #vulnerability -
Well this is sobering:
“The Kill Line ...a sharp, unsettling, and revealing metaphor used by ordinary Chinese commentators to describe how American society appears from the outside. The Kill Line names an invisible threshold in the United States: a point at which a single shock, medical, financial, or legal, can push an otherwise productive middle-class citizen into irreversible collapse."
https://jscaff.medium.com/the-kill-line-what-america-looks-like-on-chinese-social-media-14f10e4bb8b4
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Paul Frazee dives deep into the labyrinthine "politics" of client-side apps, as if the average developer has time to ponder the socioeconomic implications of where their data gets crunched. 🤔 Just pick an option and move on, Paul, nobody's pondering democracy while posting on Bluesky. 🐦✨
https://pfrazee.leaflet.pub/3m5hwua4sh22v #clientSidePolitics #developerLife #dataPrivacy #appDevelopment #socioeconomics #HackerNews #ngated -
🎩 Ah, the riveting thesis that poverty is a magnet for perverts! 🤦♂️ Who knew a plank with nails was the real hero of the story? 🙄 In a twist of “socio-economic insight,” we discover that the wealthy only have champagne problems while the rest fend off creeps with medieval weaponry. 🍾🔨
https://peaked.substack.com/p/you-meet-more-perverts-when-youre #povertyissues #socioeconomics #humor #socialcommentary #wealthgap #HackerNews #ngated -
A Predictive Model For Household Displacement Duration After Disasters
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https://doi.org/10.1111/risa.17710 <-- shared paper
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https://nicolepaul.eu.pythonanywhere.com/ <-- interactive web interface
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #HouseholdPulseSurvey #risk #hazard #damage #loss #spatialanalysis #model #modeling #disaster #naturaldisaster #storm #hurricane #flood #fire #cost #economics #community #publicsafety #effects #predictivemodel #AI #machinelearning #riskanalysis #classifactiontree #socioeconomics #casestudy #mitigation #preparedness #displacement #population -
AdamSomething has taken a break from #civilengineering and decided to *checks notes* talk about #statecraft and #socioeconomics in the #US? Ah ghee whiz.
That a #European shows his autistic super power by just lining up one #political problem after another and mowing them down in the same breath gives me hope for the future.
But is #Europe really the #economic centre of the world in the future? I'm a bit more uncertain of that.
Why #Trump's #Tariffs Are Doomed To Fail
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Before Mutual Aid morphed into Crowdfunded Self-Interest
How Black Mutual Aid Groups Paved The Way For Racial Progress
#Unity, Black Americans' most valuable asset
Dr. Allison Wiltz | Feb, 2025 | Medium
@allyfromnola
#BlackMastodon #Culture #SocioEconomics #SolidarityEconomics #MutualAid #Cooperative #CooperativeCapitalism
https://allyfromnola.medium.com/how-black-mutual-aid-groups-paved-the-way-for-racial-progress-8f688871e533 -
Is #Trumpism a #political movement? Or is it more useful to think of it as a mystical offshoot of #American #Christianity?
#OpenDemocracy and #JeffSharlet (#author of The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War) discuss this. See links to podcast ⤵️https://open.spotify.com/episode/5udBkbPTGyMDXy4skZN5GF
#theundertow #trump #donaldtrump #politicalmovement #religion #americanchristianity #politics #americanpolitics #ukpolitics #britishpolitics #fascism #socioeconomics #worldpolitics #government
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The Need to Challenge Whiteness Everywhere w/ Prof. Ian Haney Lopez
#LurieDanielFavors #IanHaneyLopez #Politics #SocialScience #Socioeconomics #RacialCapitalism #RacialHierarchy #Election2024
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Billion-Dollar Fish By Kevin Bailey — Review
by @grrlscientist via #Substack
#Books📚 #BookReview #fish🐠 #fisheries🎣 #socioeconomics #economics💰 https://substack.com/home/post/p-152461059
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Billion-Dollar Fish By Kevin Bailey — Review
by @GrrlScientist via #Substack
#Books📚 #BookReview #fish🐠 #fisheries🎣 #socioeconomics #economics💰 https://substack.com/home/post/p-152461059
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Max Read with a very thought-provoking hypothesis on #Tiktok as an ideological apparatus (my words) for creating and stabilising petit-bourgeois personalities & consciousness mainly THROUGH ITS FORM: "But social media overall tends to encourage users to understand themselves as small-business owners, where the business is “you,” or your brand, navigating the “market” of a platform. (...) "
#politics #socialmedia #trump #socioeconomics #media #sociology #mediastudies
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"[...] if our need for fossil fuels is an addiction, the addicts are being told to stop while the dealers are getting government support!" 🔥
(Andrew Sayer, p. 334)#WhyWeCantAffordTheRich - a book on #SocioEconomics that keeps on giving
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Elon Musk, Wokeness, and the Myth of Meritocracy
How Tony Stark, the myth of meritocracy, and our unspoken beliefs about genius explain Elon Musk and the (re)turn of eugenics to the right wing
#Science #Socioeconomics #DEI
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It's been a while since I did an #Introductions #Introduction #Connections #TwitterMigration post, where I curate excellent accounts for you to follow across the #fediverse :fediverse:
First up, we have @everythingopen, a flagship conference from @linuxaustralia that champions #OpenSource, #OpenGLAM, #OpenData, #OpenGov, #OpenScience, #OpenHardware and so on 🤓 🐧
Early Bird tickets close in 5 days, next conf in #Gladstone, #Queensland in April.
@kiwipycon, run by @nzpug with @tveastman at the helm, is another great @linuxaustralia conference, and 2024 conf details are dropping 🔜 🐍
@DrDemography Dr Liz Allen is a #demography #research @ANUResearch where she researches the intersection of #socioEconomics, #sociology and #geography 👋
@bennett is a #HistSci / #STS #PhD #researcher looking at #data sharing in #science #ScienceMastodon 👋
@erikavaris is a #linguist, into #AI, #ML, #NL, #running and #cooking 👋
@ian is into #gardening, #socialism, #SoftwareEngineering, and #HamRadio 🇬🇧 👋
@Elkewinzer is an Economic Historian and Political Scientist #PolSci who now works in #consulting 🇬🇧 👋
@glacasa specialises in .NET development 🇫🇷 👋
That's all for today, please do curate your own lists so we can more richly connect the Fediverse ❤️
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#Healthcare #Disparities In The #LGBTQ+ #Community.
#Socioeconomics matters for #health. #LGBTQ+ individuals, especially #trans individuals and #bisexuals, face much higher rates of #unemployment, lower #household #income, and higher #povertyrates compared to the #generalpopulation.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Health #Healthcare #Representation #Culture
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Looking forward to delivering my invited #lectureship entitled:
'#SmartCityCitizenship: #AI from a #Transdisciplinary #SocialSciences Perspective'
at the oldest/historic university of #Spain #Salamanca Universidad de Salamanca on #11S2023
#SmartCities #Policy #Research #Datafication #Sustainability #Socioeconomics #Wellbeing #Multistakeholders