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- Title Pages
- Title Pages
- Figures and tables
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Part 1 Tipping Points and Critical Thresholds
- 1.1 Metaphors and Systemic Change
- Part 2 Earth System Tipping Points
- 2.1 Tipping Elements from a Global Perspective
- Part 3 The Culture Dimensions
- 3.1 Skittles
- Commentary 3.2
- Part 4 Food Security, Biodiversity, and Ecosystems Degradation
- 4.1 Food Security Twists and Turns
- 4.2 Human Resilience in the Face of Biodiversity Tipping Points at Local and Regional Scales<sup>1</sup>
- 4.3 The Amazon in Transition
- Part 5 The Spiritual Dimension
- 5.1 Contemplative Consciousness
- Commentary 5.2
- Part 6 Politics, The Markets, and Business
- 6.1 Sustaining Markets, Establishing Well-Being, and Promoting Social Virtue for Transformational Tipping Points<sup>1</sup>
- 6.2 Some Socio-Economic Thoughts
- 6.3 Leadership for Sustainability
- Commentary 6.4
- Commentary 6.5
- Commentary 6.6
- Commentary 6.7
- Commentary 6.8
- Commentary 6.9
- Part 7 Communicating Tipping Points and Resilience
- 7.1 Media Coverage of Tipping Points
- 7.2 Exploring Adaptive Governance for Managing Tipping Points
- Commentary 7.3
- Commentary 7.4
- Commentary 7.5
- Commentary 7.6
- Part 8 A Precarious Future
- 8.1 Into a Precarious Future
- 8.2 Improving Our Chances of Transition to Sustainability
- Commentary 8.3
- Index
(p.xi) Figures and tables
(p.xi) Figures and tables
- Source:
- Addressing Tipping Points for a Precarious Future
- Publisher:
- British Academy
Figures
2.4 A schematic representation of a system being forced past a bifurcation point 37
4.1 The food system, its external influences, and outcomes: a flowchart 98
6.1 The approach to well-being in the context of evolving natural and social capital 181
6.5 The infrastructure of responsibility: how individuals relate, one to another, to create a strong society 208
6.7 A sample of the Knowledge Wall at the Breakthrough Capitalism Forum 224
7.1 Visual thinking to understand multiple cause–effects 292
7.2 Visual thinking to understand multi-scale complexity 293
7.3 Visualization in communicating tipping point situations 294
7.4 Visualization for synergistic tipping point responses 296
- Title Pages
- Title Pages
- Figures and tables
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Part 1 Tipping Points and Critical Thresholds
- 1.1 Metaphors and Systemic Change
- Part 2 Earth System Tipping Points
- 2.1 Tipping Elements from a Global Perspective
- Part 3 The Culture Dimensions
- 3.1 Skittles
- Commentary 3.2
- Part 4 Food Security, Biodiversity, and Ecosystems Degradation
- 4.1 Food Security Twists and Turns
- 4.2 Human Resilience in the Face of Biodiversity Tipping Points at Local and Regional Scales<sup>1</sup>
- 4.3 The Amazon in Transition
- Part 5 The Spiritual Dimension
- 5.1 Contemplative Consciousness
- Commentary 5.2
- Part 6 Politics, The Markets, and Business
- 6.1 Sustaining Markets, Establishing Well-Being, and Promoting Social Virtue for Transformational Tipping Points<sup>1</sup>
- 6.2 Some Socio-Economic Thoughts
- 6.3 Leadership for Sustainability
- Commentary 6.4
- Commentary 6.5
- Commentary 6.6
- Commentary 6.7
- Commentary 6.8
- Commentary 6.9
- Part 7 Communicating Tipping Points and Resilience
- 7.1 Media Coverage of Tipping Points
- 7.2 Exploring Adaptive Governance for Managing Tipping Points
- Commentary 7.3
- Commentary 7.4
- Commentary 7.5
- Commentary 7.6
- Part 8 A Precarious Future
- 8.1 Into a Precarious Future
- 8.2 Improving Our Chances of Transition to Sustainability
- Commentary 8.3
- Index