Tipping points and the human world: Living with change and thinking about the future

Ambio

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 96-105

  Nuttall, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anticipation; Arctic; Environmental discourse; Human environment relations; Representations; Tipping points

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ANTHROPOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FUTURE PROSPECT; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS;

ARCTIC;

ARCTIC; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; POLICY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ARCTIC REGIONS; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POLICY; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 84859404843     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13280-011-0228-3     Document Type: Article

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