Slow Response of Societies to New Problems: Causes and Costs

By Marten Scheffer, Frances Westley, William A. Brock. Ecosystems, 2003

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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Self-Organized Governance Networks for Ecosystem Management: Who Is Accountable? (2011, background): “…of ecosystems, a cornerstone of sustainable development (Folke 2002), is expected to increase when the knowledge and experiences of different stakeholders are taken into account in management decisions, especially in times of uncertainty and rapid change (Scheffer et al. 2003, Berkes et al. 2003).”
Conditions for sustainability of human-environment systems: Information, motivation, and capacity (2005, background): “…as abrupt climate change (Weiss and Bradley, 2001), ecological vulnerability (Diamond, 1994), diminishing returns to socio-political complexity (Tainter, 1988), sunk-cost effects in human-decision making (i.e., decisions based on past investments rather than on expected future returns)…”
Enhancing the Fit through Adaptive Co-management: Creating and Maintaining Bridging Functions for Matching Scales in the Kristianstads Vattenrike Biosphere Reserve, Sweden (2007, background): “Although these studies address the linking aspect, there is a need to increase the understanding of the role of networks for dealing with uncertainty and abrupt change in SES (Scheffer et al. 2003, Bodin and Norberg 2005, Janssen et al. 2006).”
Network resilience (2020, background): “tions or interactions between two entities, such as the connections between two people in the social network or two functionally related financial markets [234, 235].”
Insight, part of a Special Feature on Managing Surprises in Complex Systems Ecological and Human Community Resilience in Response to Natural Disasters (2010, background): “One of the differences between ecological and community systems is that humandominated systems contain members that can conceptualize and look forward to the future (Westley et al. 2002, Scheffer et al. 2003, Redman and Kinzig 2003), whereas ecological systems do not have this ability.”
Institutional and political leadership dimensions of cascading ecological crises (2011, background): “Marten Scheffer and colleagues (Scheffer et al. 2003) use the example of so-called ‘endocrine disrupters’.”
The Evolutionary Basis of Rigidity: Locks in Cells, Minds, and Society (2007, background): “However, it is hard to deny that societies today remain notoriously slow when responding to new problems (Scheffer et al. 2003).”
Spatial correlation as leading indicator of catastrophic shifts (2010, background): “Finally, there is the difficulty of moving from science to policy in a swift way (Scheffer et al. 2003; Biggs et al. 2009).”