Addressing Tipping Points for a Precarious Future
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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| description | 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 points, on the scope for anticipating their onset, the capacity for societal resilience in the face of their impending arrival, and for better ways of communicating and preparing societies, economies, and governments for accommodating them, and hence to turn them into responses which buffer and better human well-being. Above all, the possibility of preparing society for creative and benign ‘tips’ is a unifying theme. The conclusion is sombre but not without hope. Thresholds of profound change can combine earth system-based relatively abrupt shifts with human-caused alterations of these disturbed patterns which, coupled together, produce more rapid onsets and greater tensions and stresses for governments and economies, as well as socially unequal societies. There is still time to predict and address these thresholds but too much delay will make the task of accommodation very difficult to achieve with relevant-scale community support. There are many examples of adaptive resilience throughout the world. These should be identified, supported, and emulated according to cultural acceptance and emerging economic realities. But there is no guarantee that the necessary adjustments can be made in time, as emerging patterns of outlook and governance do not appear to be conducive to manage the very awkward transitions of appropriate response. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-273702025-06-26T05:04:08Z Addressing Tipping Points for a Precarious Future O'Riordan, Timothy Lenton, Timothy metaphors resilience abrupt change well-being tipping points prediction adaptation Amazon rainforest Biodiversity Climate change (general concept) Ecosystem Sustainability thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFZ Social forecasting, future studies thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology::JHBC Social research and statistics thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCA Economic theory and philosophy thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCB Macroeconomics thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCS Economic systems and structures thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment::RNT Social impact of environmental issues 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 points, on the scope for anticipating their onset, the capacity for societal resilience in the face of their impending arrival, and for better ways of communicating and preparing societies, economies, and governments for accommodating them, and hence to turn them into responses which buffer and better human well-being. Above all, the possibility of preparing society for creative and benign ‘tips’ is a unifying theme. The conclusion is sombre but not without hope. Thresholds of profound change can combine earth system-based relatively abrupt shifts with human-caused alterations of these disturbed patterns which, coupled together, produce more rapid onsets and greater tensions and stresses for governments and economies, as well as socially unequal societies. There is still time to predict and address these thresholds but too much delay will make the task of accommodation very difficult to achieve with relevant-scale community support. There are many examples of adaptive resilience throughout the world. These should be identified, supported, and emulated according to cultural acceptance and emerging economic realities. But there is no guarantee that the necessary adjustments can be made in time, as emerging patterns of outlook and governance do not appear to be conducive to manage the very awkward transitions of appropriate response. 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2017-05-01 23:55:55 2018-10-03 09:09:28 2020-04-01T13:32:54Z 2013 book 630130 OCN: 901547714 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31370 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/27370 eng British Academy Original Paperbacks open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31370/1/630130.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31370/1/630130.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31370/1/630130.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31370/1/630130.pdf Liverpool University Press on behalf of The British Academy 10.5871/bacad/9780197265536.001.0001 10.5871/bacad/9780197265536.001.0001 aa5f0a3b-b4a0-4754-9840-b645b364c5ef British Academy on behalf of The British Academy 300 Oxford, UK open access |
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| title | Addressing Tipping Points for a Precarious Future |
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| topic | metaphors resilience abrupt change well-being tipping points prediction adaptation Amazon rainforest Biodiversity Climate change (general concept) Ecosystem Sustainability thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFZ Social forecasting, future studies thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology::JHBC Social research and statistics thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCA Economic theory and philosophy thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCB Macroeconomics thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCS Economic systems and structures thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment::RNT Social impact of environmental issues |
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