Anatomy and resilience of the global production ecosystem.

Much of the Earth's biosphere has been appropriated for the production of harvestable biomass in the form of food, fuel and fibre. Here we show that the simplification and intensification of these systems and their growing connection to international markets has yielded a global production ecosystem that is homogenous, highly connected and characterized by weakened internal feedbacks. We argue that these features converge to yield high and predictable supplies of biomass in the short term, but create conditions for novel and pervasive risks to emerge and interact in the longer term. Steering the global production ecosystem towards a sustainable trajectory will require the redirection of finance, increased transparency and traceability in supply chains, and the participation of a multitude of players, including integrated 'keystone actors' such as multinational corporations.

Intervenciones psicosociales y sus efectos en la trayectoria de mujeres inmigradas en Chile / Psychosocial Interventions and Their Effects on the Trajectory of Immigrant Women in Chile

Resumen Parte de los análisis sobre las migraciones en Chile ponen su atención en los sujetos inmigrados y su nivel de inclusión en diferentes esferas sociales. Ante ello, giramos la mirada hacia la intervención psicosocial desde un enfoque feminista, observamos las formas de actuación de las intervenciones, cómo estas generan efectos psicosociales y las "líneas de fuga" (Deleuze & Guattari, 1988/2012) que escapan a estas prácticas más hegemónicas. Para ello, se realizó un conjunto de Producciones Narrativas con interventoras y usuarias lo que, a través de un proceso de "figuración", posibilitó comprender los múltiples puentes de apertura, contradicción y cierre en las trayectorias de las mujeres inmigradas y su paso por servicios públicos y de la sociedad civil.

Abstract Part of the analysis on migration in Chile focuses on immigrant subjects and their level of inclusion in different social spheres. Therefore we turn our eyes towards psychosocial intervention: from a feminist perspective, we look at the ways interventions act and generate psychosocial effects and the "line of flight" (Deleuze & Guattari, 1988/2012) that escapes hegemonic practices. For this, a set of Narrative Productions was carried out with interveners and users, which through a process of figuration, made it possible to understand the multiple bridges of opening, closure and contradiction that overlap in the trajectories of immigrant women and their passage through civil and public services.

Water governance, resilience and global environmental change - a reassessment of integrated water resources management (IWRM).

Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) is gaining increased acceptance among water policy makers and researchers as a way to create more effective governance institutions, leading towards integrated water development solutions for poverty alleviation, while addressing social, economic and environmental aspects of water challenges. However, global environmental change poses fundamental challenges to water policy makers as it implies vast scientific, and hence, policy uncertainty; its implications for international water governance initiatives remain unspecified, effectively hindering dialogue on how current IWRM initiatives should be modified. This paper addresses the lag between our growing understanding of resilient interconnected freshwater resources (and their governance) and the reforms being promoted by policy makers. In particular, there is a need to rethink some of IWRM's key components to better tackle the challenges posed by the complex behaviour of interconnected social-ecological systems and global environmental change.