By Marten Scheffer
ISBN-10: 0691122032
ISBN-13: 9780691122038
ISBN-10: 0691122040
ISBN-13: 9780691122045
How will we clarify the remarkably abrupt adjustments that typically happen in nature and society--and will we expect why and after they occur? This e-book bargains a complete creation to severe transitions in advanced systems--the radical alterations that take place at tipping issues whilst thresholds are passed.
Marten Scheffer accessibly describes the dynamical structures thought at the back of severe transitions, overlaying disaster idea, bifurcations, chaos, and extra. He supplies examples of severe transitions in lakes, oceans, terrestrial ecosystems, weather, evolution, and human societies. And he demonstrates the right way to take care of those transitions, supplying sensible suggestions on the way to are expecting tipping issues, the best way to hinder "bad" transitions, and the way to advertise severe transitions that paintings for us and never opposed to us. Scheffer exhibits the time is ripe for knowing and handling severe transitions within the colossal and complicated structures within which we are living. This e-book may also function a textbook and encompasses a distinct appendix with equations.
- Provides an available advent to dynamical platforms conception
- Covers severe transitions in lakes, oceans, terrestrial ecosystems, the weather, evolution, and human societies
- Explains the best way to are expecting tipping issues
- Offers thoughts for combating "bad" transitions and triggering "good" ones
- Features an appendix with equations
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