Awards

• Runner-up for Choice Magazine Outstanding Reference/Academic Book Award 2009
• Runner-up for Choice Magazine Outstanding Reference/Academic Book Award 2009.

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9780691122038

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This excellent, well-crafted volume outlines theoretical/applied evidence describing regime shifts that occur in natural and societal systems, and suggests how to address deleterious change to further human welfare. Scheffer expertly argues that system shifts are critical transitions arising when normal cyclical processes are stressed, thereby generating 'tipping points'... A highly important book of intellectual and applied significance. -- M. Evans Choice

This excellent, well-crafted volume outlines theoretical/applied evidence describing regime shifts that occur in natural and societal systems, and suggests how to address deleterious change to further human welfare. Scheffer expertly argues that system shifts are critical transitions arising when normal cyclical processes are stressed, thereby generating 'tipping points'... A highly important book of intellectual and applied significance. -- M. Evans, Choice Scheffer's book is a good read. It is fluently written and breathes authority, while still being highly consistent in its terminology. -- Carsten F. Dormann, Basic and Applied Ecology

Author Information

Marten Scheffer is professor of environmental sciences at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. He is the author of ""Ecology of Shallow Lakes"".

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