Critical Transitions in Nature and Society

By Marten Scheffer. 2009

466 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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In Sociology and Political Science

1. Carl Folke
2. M. Holmgren
3. Sonia Kefi
4. Stephen R. Carpenter
5. J. Rockström
6. B. Walker
7. T. Chapin
8. K. Mäler

Citations in the corpus

• Social-ecological systems as complex adaptive systems: modeling and policy implications (2012, background): “Nonlinear feedbacks along with slow processes help explain regime shifts in coral reefs, forests and lake systems (Scheffer, 2009).”
• When can positive interactions cause alternative stable states in ecosystems (2016, methodology): “This positive feedback may have been important in driving the runaway process that may have unleashed this new plant type once a critical threshold was passed (Berendse & Scheffer 2009).”
• Conservation Paleobiology: Leveraging Knowledge of the Past to Inform Conservation and Restoration (2015, background): “Geohistorical records provide the long-term perspective needed to identify past threshold events, i.e., sudden changes in the state of an ecosystem after prolonged stability, despite sustained or intensifying stress (Folke et al. 2004, Scheffer 2009).”
• The Emergence of Global Systemic Risk (2015, background): “Such critical transitions can result from either external perturbations or the endogenous functioning of the system itself, and are both difficult to forecast and potentially irreversible (Scheffer 2009).”
• Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet (2015, background): “Although a systematic, quantitative analysis of interactions among all of the processes for which boundaries are proposed remains beyond the scope of current modeling and observational capacity, the Earth system clearly operates in well-defined states in which these processes and their interactions ”
• Critical slowing down as early warning for the onset and termination of depression (2013, unknown): “” From dynamical systems theory, it is known that positive-feed-back loops among such causal interactions can cause a system to have alternative stable states (25).”
• Community Resilience: Toward an Integrated Approach (2013, unknown): “Social–ecological systems literature alerts researchers to look for renewal cycles, memory in the system that can help restart cycles, disturbance events, drivers of change, and the significance of windows of opportunity during which innovative changes can be made in the system (Scheffer 2009; Chapi”