Addressing Tipping Points for a Precarious Future

Addressing Tipping Points for a Precarious Future

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This book places tipping points in their scientific, economic, governmental, creative, and spiritual contexts. It seeks to offer a comprehensive set of interpretations on the meaning and application of tipping points. Its contribution focuses on the various characterisations and metaphors of tipping...

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Other Authors: O'Riordan, Timothy (Editor), Lenton, Timothy (Editor)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Oxford, UK Oxford University Press 2013
Series:British Academy Original Paperbacks
Subjects:
Social forecasting, future studies
Social research & statistics
Economic theory & philosophy
Macroeconomics
Economic systems & structures
Social impact of environmental issues
metaphors
resilience
abrupt change
well-being
tipping points
prediction
adaptation
Amazon rainforest
Biodiversity
Climate change (general concept)
Ecosystem
Sustainability
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