Critical Transitions in Nature and Society / / Marten Scheffer.

How do we explain the remarkably abrupt changes that sometimes occur in nature and society--and can we predict why and when they happen? This book offers a comprehensive introduction to critical transitions in complex systems--the radical changes that happen at tipping points when thresholds are pas...

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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Princeton Studies in Complexity ; 16
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Contents --   |t Acknowledgments --   |t CHAPTER 1. Introduction --   |t Part I THEORY OF CRITICAL TRANSITIONS --   |t CHAPTER 2. Alternative Stable States --   |t CHAPTER 3. Cycles and Chaos --   |t CHAPTER 4. Emergent Patterns in Complex Systems --   |t CHAPTER 5. Implications of Fluctuations, Heterogeneity, and Diversity --   |t CHAPTER 6. Conclusion: From Theoretical Concepts to Reality --   |t Part II CASE STUDIES --   |t CHAPTER 7. Lakes --   |t CHAPTER 8. Climate --   |t CHAPTER 9. Evolution --   |t CHAPTER 10. Oceans --   |t CHAPTER 11. Terrestrial Ecosystems --   |t CHAPTER 12. Humans --   |t CHAPTER 13. Conclusion: Critical Transitions in a Complex World --   |t Part III DEALING WITH CRITICAL TRANSITIONS --   |t CHAPTER 14. How to Know if Alternative Basins of Attraction Exist --   |t CHAPTER 15. How to Know if a Threshold Is Near --   |t CHAPTER 16. The Winding Road from Science to Policy --   |t CHAPTER 17. New Approaches to Managing Change --   |t CHAPTER 18. Prospects --   |t Appendix --   |t Glossary --   |t Notes --   |t Index 
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520 |a How do we explain the remarkably abrupt changes that sometimes occur in nature and society--and can we predict why and when they happen? This book offers a comprehensive introduction to critical transitions in complex systems--the radical changes that happen at tipping points when thresholds are passed. Marten Scheffer accessibly describes the dynamical systems theory behind critical transitions, covering catastrophe theory, bifurcations, chaos, and more. He gives examples of critical transitions in lakes, oceans, terrestrial ecosystems, climate, evolution, and human societies. And he demonstrates how to deal with these transitions, offering practical guidance on how to predict tipping points, how to prevent "bad" transitions, and how to promote critical transitions that work for us and not against us. Scheffer shows the time is ripe for understanding and managing critical transitions in the vast and complex systems in which we live. This book can also serve as a textbook and includes a detailed appendix with equations.Provides an accessible introduction to dynamical systems theory Covers critical transitions in lakes, oceans, terrestrial ecosystems, the climate, evolution, and human societies Explains how to predict tipping points Offers strategies for preventing "bad" transitions and triggering "good" ones Features an appendix with equations 
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650 0 |a Biogeography. 
650 0 |a Ecological disturbances. 
650 0 |a Global environmental change. 
650 0 |a Nature  |x Effect of human beings on. 
650 0 |a Social evolution. 
650 0 |a System theory. 
650 0 |a Threshold logic. 
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653 |a Allee effect. 
653 |a Great Barrier Reef. 
653 |a Hopf bifurcation. 
653 |a Lake Alderfen Broad. 
653 |a Sahara desert. 
653 |a adaptive capacity. 
653 |a aquatic vegetation. 
653 |a biomanipulation. 
653 |a catastrophe fold. 
653 |a catastrophic shift. 
653 |a coral reefs. 
653 |a dynamical systems. 
653 |a eutrophication. 
653 |a extinction of species. 
653 |a fold bifurcation. 
653 |a functional group. 
653 |a glaciation cycles. 
653 |a ice sheet dynamics. 
653 |a invasion. 
653 |a kelp. 
653 |a microcredits. 
653 |a overexploitation. 
653 |a overgrazing. 
653 |a paradigm shifts. 
653 |a poverty trap. 
653 |a quasiperiodic oscillations. 
653 |a refuge. 
653 |a runaway process. 
653 |a stability landscape. 
653 |a thermo-haline circulation. 
653 |a unstable equilibrium. 
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