Addressing Tipping Points for a Precarious Future
Addressing Tipping Points for a Precarious Future
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Abstract
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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Front Matter
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Part 1 Tipping Points and Critical Thresholds
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Part 2 Earth System Tipping Points
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Part 3 The Culture Dimensions
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Part 4 Food Security, Biodiversity, and Ecosystems Degradation
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4.1
Food Security Twists and Turns: Why Food Systems need Complex Governance
Tim Lang andJohn Ingram
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4.2
Human Resilience in the Face of Biodiversity Tipping Points at Local and Regional Scales
Patricia Howard
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4.3
The Amazon in Transition: The Challenge of Transforming the World’s Largest Tropical Forest Biome into a Sustainable Social-Ecological System
Toby Gardner
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4.1
Food Security Twists and Turns: Why Food Systems need Complex Governance
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Part 5 The Spiritual Dimension
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Part 6 Politics, The Markets, and Business
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6.1
Sustaining Markets, Establishing Well-Being, and Promoting Social Virtue for Transformational Tipping Points
Tim O’Riordan
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6.2
Some Socio-Economic Thoughts
Paul Ekins
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6.3
Leadership for Sustainability: The Search for Tipping Points
Sara Parkin
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Commentary 6.4: Leadership by Business for Coping with Transformational Tipping Thresholds
Amanda Long
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Commentary 6.5: Private Sector Failure and Risk Management for Tipping Points
Keith Clarke
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Commentary 6.6: Creating a Roadmap for Sustainable, Transformational Change
John Elkington
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Commentary 6.7: Tipping Points and ‘Too Difficult Boxes’
Charles Clarke
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Commentary 6.8: It Tips Both Ways
Thomas Lingard
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Commentary 6.9: Perspective of a Global Retailer
Mike Barry
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6.1
Sustaining Markets, Establishing Well-Being, and Promoting Social Virtue for Transformational Tipping Points
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Part 7 Communicating Tipping Points and Resilience
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7.1
Media Coverage of Tipping Points: Searching for a Balanced Story
Joe Smith
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7.2
Exploring Adaptive Governance for Managing Tipping Points
Emily Boyd
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Commentary 7.3: Reflections of a Journalist
Paul Brown
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Commentary 7.4: Making Sense of the World
Camilla Toulmin
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Commentary 7.5: Endgame
Jonathan Sinclair-Wilson
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Commentary 7.6: Beyond the LinearThe Role of Visual Thinking and Visualization
Joe Ravetz
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7.1
Media Coverage of Tipping Points: Searching for a Balanced Story
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Part 8 A Precarious Future
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8.1
Into a Precarious Future
Tim O’Riordan andTim Lenton
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8.2
Improving Our Chances of Transition to Sustainability: The Role of Values and the Ethics of Solidarity and Sympathy
Andrew Dobson
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Commentary 8.3: Turning the Tides? Parallel Infrastructures and the Revolt of the Corporate Elites
Ian Christie
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8.1
Into a Precarious Future
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End Matter
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