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Can we avert an Amazon tipping point? The economic and environmental costs
The Amazon biome is being pushed by unsustainable economic drivers towards an ecological tipping point where restoration to its previous state may no longer be possible.
Onil Banerjee +13 more
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The Economics of Tipping Points [PDF]
The Beijer Institute organizes workshops for economists and ecologists to meet, to talk to each other, and to work together. At one of these workshops in Gozo, Malta, in 1998, the ecologists Stephen Carpenter and Marten Scheffer presented their shallow lake model.
de Zeeuw, Aart, Li, Chuang-Zhong
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Predicting climate tipping as a noisy bifurcation: A review [PDF]
Copyright © 2011 World Scientific PublishingElectronic version of an article published in International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, Vol. 21 (2), pp. 399 – 423. DOI: 10.1142/S0218127411028519. Copyright © World Scientific Publishing Company.
Thompson, J., Sieber, J., Thompson, J.M.
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Fragmented tipping in a spatially heterogeneous world
Many climate subsystems are thought to be susceptible to tipping—and some might be close to a tipping point. The general belief and intuition, based on simple conceptual models of tipping elements, is that tipping leads to reorganization of the full (sub)
Robbin Bastiaansen +2 more
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Emergence of cascading dynamics in interacting tipping elements of ecology and climate [PDF]
In ecology, climate and other fields, (sub)systems have been identified that can transition into a qualitatively different state when a critical threshold or tipping point in a driving process is crossed.
Ann Kristin Klose +3 more
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Thomas E. Lovejoy Carlos Nobre In the 1970s, Brazilian scientist Eneas Salati shattered the long held dogma that vegetation is simply the consequence of climate and has no influence on climate whatsoever ( 1 ). Using isotopic ratios of oxygen in rainwater samples collected from the Atlantic to the Peruvian border, he was able to demonstrate ...
Lovejoy, Thomas E., Nobre, Carlos
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The term tipping point has experienced explosive popularity across multiple disciplines over the last decade. Research on social-ecological systems (SES) has contributed to the growth and diversity of the term’s use.
Manjana Milkoreit +9 more
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The Interrelation between Manufacturing Productivity, Maximum Sectoral Employment and National Income Per Capita [PDF]
According to the three-sector hypothesis, the national share of employees in the industrial sector will be shrinking after having reached a specific peak level.
Rainer Przywara
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A tipping point for open citation data
Open citation data can improve the transparency and robustness of scientific portfolio analysis, improve science policy decision-making, stimulate downstream commercial activity, and increase the discoverability of scientific articles.
B. Ian Hutchins
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