Reading List¶
Here is a list of suggested articles to read as you start to explore ideas within environmental tipping points and transformations.
Recommended¶
Overview of Tipping Points and Transformation: Catastrophic shifts in ecosystems (Scheffer et al. 2001)
Amazon rainforest case study: Critical transitions in the Amazon forest system (Flores et al. 2024)
Paleo perspective and human drivers: Multiscale regime shifts and planetary boundaries (Hughes et al. 2013)
Aquatic examples: Tipping points and multiple drivers in changing aquatic ecosystems: A review of experimental studies (Carrier-Belleau et al 2021)
RAD framework for ecological transformation: Navigating Ecological Transformation: Resist–Accept–Direct as a Path to a New Resource Management Paradigm (Schuurman et al. 2022)
Socio-ecological transformations: Studying the complexity of change: toward an analytical framework for understanding deliberate social-ecological transformations (Moore et al. 2014)
For those who want more...¶
Defining tipping points for social-ecological systems scholarship—an interdisciplinary literature review (Milkoreit et al. 2018)
'Tipping points' confuse and can distract from urgent climate action(Kopp et al. 2024)
Future of the human climate niche (Xu et al. 2020)
Abrupt changes in biomass burning during the last glacial period (Riddell-Young et al. 2024)
Tipping Points in the Biosphere (Armstrong McKay et al. 2023)
WWF What you Need to Know about Tipping Points (Ong. 2024)
Positive Tipping Cascade in Power, Transport, and Heating (Nijsse et al. 2024)
When ecosystems collapse (Michael Gross. 2023)
How Close Are the Planet’s Climate Tipping Points? - The New York Times (Zhong & Rojanasakul. 2024)
Earlier collapse of Anthropocene ecosystems driven by multiple faster and noisier drivers | Nature Sustainability (Willcock et al. 2023)
The Earth4All scenarios: human wellbeing on a finite planet towards 2100 (Stoknes et al. 2025)
Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene (Steffen et al., 2018)
'Tipping points’ for the Amazon forest (Nobre & De Simone Borma 2009)
Interactions among Amazon land use, forests and climate: prospects for a near-term forest tipping point (Nepstad et al. 2008)
Across Spatial Scales among Forest Dieback, Fire, and Erosion in Northern New Mexico Landscapes (Craig D. Allen. 2007)
Conceptualizing the Environment in a Time of Ecological Collapse (Withagen, van der Kamp & Woods. 2024)
Abrupt Change in Ecological Systems: Inference and Diagnosis (Ratajczak et al., 2018)
Revenge of the Tipping Point (Gladwell, M.2024)