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] ©2009 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Studies in Complexity ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (400 p.) :; 6 halftones. 131 line illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- CHAPTER 1. Introduction
- Part I THEORY OF CRITICAL TRANSITIONS
- CHAPTER 2. Alternative Stable States
- CHAPTER 3. Cycles and Chaos
- CHAPTER 4. Emergent Patterns in Complex Systems
- CHAPTER 5. Implications of Fluctuations, Heterogeneity, and Diversity
- CHAPTER 6. Conclusion: From Theoretical Concepts to Reality
- Part II CASE STUDIES
- CHAPTER 7. Lakes
- CHAPTER 8. Climate
- CHAPTER 9. Evolution
- CHAPTER 10. Oceans
- CHAPTER 11. Terrestrial Ecosystems
- CHAPTER 12. Humans
- CHAPTER 13. Conclusion: Critical Transitions in a Complex World
- Part III DEALING WITH CRITICAL TRANSITIONS
- CHAPTER 14. How to Know if Alternative Basins of Attraction Exist
- CHAPTER 15. How to Know if a Threshold Is Near
- CHAPTER 16. The Winding Road from Science to Policy
- CHAPTER 17. New Approaches to Managing Change
- CHAPTER 18. Prospects
- Appendix
- Glossary
- Notes
- Index