Sea gulls, butterflies, and grasshoppers: A brief history of the butterfly effect in nonlinear dynamics

By R. Hilborn. 2004

162 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Management Science and Operations Research, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/489c262d15ae1a3a659df44def2b977a187e1254

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In Global and Planetary Change

1. Andrew Stirling
2. Adrian Smith
3. Wolfgang Lucht
4. John Thompson
5. Sigrid Stagl
6. I. Scoones
7. J. Rockström
8. H. El Bilali

In Management Science and Operations Research

1. Adrian Smith
2. I. Scoones
3. John Thompson
4. M. Leach
5. Andrew Stirling
6. Jonathan F. Donges
7. Sigrid Stagl
8. Frank W. Geels

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Adrian Smith
2. Andrew Stirling
3. Sigrid Stagl
4. I. Scoones
5. J. Rockström
6. H. El Bilali
7. J. Essletzbichler
8. Gill Seyfang

Citations in the corpus

• Social tipping dynamics for stabilizing Earth’s climate by 2050 (2020, background): “Many authors refer to critical thresholds (16, 28), a notion closely related to the metaphor of a “butterfly effect” (31, 32).”
• Dynamic Systems and the Challenge of Sustainability (2007, background): “Examples include the evocative image of the ‘butterfly effect’ (Lorenz, 1963; Hilborn, 2004), the influential notion of the ‘tipping point’ (Schelling, 1978; Gladwell, 2000) and the transcendant, graphic beauty of the Mandelbrot set (Peitgen and Saupe, 1988; Barnsley, 1993).”