ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2020
Tipping positive change.
Review in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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26 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Pooled it
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- Catalysts and inhibitors of critical transitions in ecological systems.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- A method to identify positive tipping points to accelerate low-carbon transitions and actions to trigger them.Sustainability science · 2026Article
- Reaching a tipping point for near-vision spectacles.Community eye health · 2026Article
- Evidence of a cascading positive tipping point towards electric vehicles.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Extending from Adaptation to Resilience Pathways: Perspectives from the Conceptual Framework to Key Insights.Environmental management · 2025Article
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- Transformation starts at the periphery of networks where pushback is less.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Spread of the cycles: a feedback perspective on the Anthropocene.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024Review
- Unlocking and accelerating transformations to the SDGs: a review of existing knowledge.Sustainability science · 2023Review
- Ecosystem services as systemic enablers for transformation in the Hindu Kush Himalaya: an analytical synthesis.Regional environmental change · 2023Review
- Research priorities for the sustainability of coral-rich western Pacific seascapes.Regional environmental change · 2023Article
- Tipping Point Detection Using Reservoir Computing.Research (Washington, D.C.) · 2023Article
- Earth stewardship: Shaping a sustainable future through interacting policy and norm shifts.Ambio · 2022Article
- Information interventions can increase technology adoption through information network restructuring.iScience · 2022Article
- Scaling up our understanding of tipping points.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022Review
- Lessons from COVID-19 for managing transboundary climate risks and building resilience.Climate risk management · 2022Article
- Probabilistic early warning signals.Ecology and evolution · 2021Article
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Abstract
Tipping points exist in social, ecological and climate systems and those systems are increasingly causally intertwined in the Anthropocene. Climate change and biosphere degradation have advanced to the point where we are already triggering damaging environmental tipping points, and to avoid worse ones ahead will require finding and triggering positive tipping points towards sustainability in coupled social, ecological and technological systems. To help with that I outline how tipping points can occur in continuous dynamical systems and in networks, the causal interactions that can occur between tipping events across different types and scales of system-including the conditions required to trigger tipping cascades, the potential for early warning signals of tipping points, and how they could inform deliberate tipping of positive change. In particular, the same methods that can provide early warning of damaging environmental tipping points can be used to detect when a socio-technical or socio-ecological system is most sensitive to being deliberately tipped in a desirable direction. I provide some example targets for such deliberate tipping of positive change. This article is part of the theme issue 'Climate change and ecosystems: threats, opportunities and solutions'.
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