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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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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Scheffer, Marten (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2020]
Colección:Princeton Studies in Complexity ; 16
Temas:
Biogeography.
Ecological disturbances.
Global environmental change.
Nature > Effect of human beings on.
Social evolution.
System theory.
Threshold logic.
SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology.
Allee effect.
Great Barrier Reef.
Hopf bifurcation.
Lake Alderfen Broad.
Sahara desert.
adaptive capacity.
aquatic vegetation.
biomanipulation.
catastrophe fold.
catastrophic shift.
coral reefs.
dynamical systems.
eutrophication.
extinction of species.
fold bifurcation.
functional group.
glaciation cycles.
ice sheet dynamics.
invasion.
kelp.
microcredits.
overexploitation.
overgrazing.
paradigm shifts.
poverty trap.
quasiperiodic oscillations.
refuge.
runaway process.
stability landscape.
thermo-haline circulation.
unstable equilibrium.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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

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