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An interdisciplinary framework for navigating social–climatic tipping points
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Graham, Sonia
Wary, Melanie
Calcagni, Fulvia
Cisneros, Mercè
de Luca, Claudia
Gorostiza, Santiago
Stedje Hanserud, Ola
Kallis, Giorgos
Kotsila, Panagiota
Leipold, Sina
Malumbres-Olarte, Jagoba
Partridge, Tristan
Petit-Boix, Anna
Schaffartzik, Anke
Shokry, Galia
Tirado-Herrero, Sergio
van den Bergh, Jeroen
Ziveri, Patrizia
Wary, Melanie
Calcagni, Fulvia
Cisneros, Mercè
de Luca, Claudia
Gorostiza, Santiago
Stedje Hanserud, Ola
Kallis, Giorgos
Kotsila, Panagiota
Leipold, Sina
Malumbres-Olarte, Jagoba
Partridge, Tristan
Petit-Boix, Anna
Schaffartzik, Anke
Shokry, Galia
Tirado-Herrero, Sergio
van den Bergh, Jeroen
Ziveri, Patrizia
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AMOC
climate adaptation
climate impacts
climate mitigation
interventions
transformation
turning points
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
SDG 13 - Climate Action
climate adaptation
climate impacts
climate mitigation
interventions
transformation
turning points
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
SDG 13 - Climate Action
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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14018/27168
Abstract
To effectively navigate out of the climate crisis, a new interdisciplinary approach is needed to guide and facilitate research that integrates diverse understandings of how transitions evolve in intertwined social–environmental systems. The concept of tipping points, frequently used in the natural sciences and increasingly in the social sciences, can help elucidate processes underlying major social–environmental transitions. We develop the notion of interlinked ‘social–climatic tipping points’ in which desirability and intentionality are key constitutive features alongside stable states, feedbacks, reversibility and abruptness. We demonstrate the new insights that our interdisciplinary framework can provide by analysing the slowdown of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation and associated flooding of the Ahr Valley in Germany as a social–climatic tipping point. This framework can enable more sustainable and equitable futures by prioritising social–climatic tipping points for interdisciplinary research, identifying opportunities for action, and evaluating the nuanced desirability and acceptability of proposed solutions. Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
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2023-10
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10.1002/pan3.10516