Social tipping points and Earth systems dynamics

Frontiers in Environmental Science

Volumn 2, Issue AUG, 2014, Pages

  Bentley, R A ^a   Maddison, Eleanor J ^b   Ranner, P H ^b   Bissell, John ^b   Caiado, Camila C S ^b   Bhatanacharoen, Pojanath ^b,c   Clark, Timothy ^c   Botha, Marc ^b   Akinbami, Folarin ^b,d   Hollow, Matthew ^b   Michie, Ranald ^b   Huntley, Brian ^b   Curtis, Sarah E ^b   Garnett, Philip ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ecological breakdown; Paleoclimatology; Paleoecology; Research synergies; Social collapse

Indexed keywords

EID: 84987927217     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2296665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fenvs.2014.00035     Document Type: Article

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