Social tip** points everywhere?—Patterns and risks of overuse

M Milkoreit - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The last few years have witnessed an explosion of interest in the concept of social tip**
points (STPs), understood as nonlinear processes of transformative change in social …

Building resilience in Asian mega-deltas

FKS Chan, A Paszkowski, Z Wang, X Lu… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2024 - nature.com
The five Asian mega-deltas (the Yangtze, the Pearl, the Chao Phraya, the Mekong and the
Ganges–Brahmaputra–Meghna deltas) are home to approximately 80% of the global deltaic …

Sea-level driven land conversion and the formation of ghost forests

ML Kirwan, KB Gedan - Nature Climate Change, 2019 - nature.com
Ghost forests created by the submergence of low-lying land are one of the most striking
indicators of climate change along the Atlantic coast of North America. Although dead trees …

Defining tip** points for social-ecological systems scholarship—an interdisciplinary literature review

M Milkoreit, J Hodbod, J Baggio… - Environmental …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
The term tip** point has experienced explosive popularity across multiple disciplines over
the last decade. Research on social-ecological systems (SES) has contributed to the growth …

Aquaculture: Relevance, distribution, impacts and spatial assessments–A review

M Ottinger, K Clauss, C Kuenzer - Ocean & Coastal Management, 2016 - Elsevier
Aquaculture is the fastest-growing animal food production sector worldwide and is becoming
the main source of aquatic animal food in human consumption. Depletion of wild fishery …

Sediment delivery to sustain the Ganges-Brahmaputra delta under climate change and anthropogenic impacts

JL Raff, SL Goodbred Jr, JL Pickering… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The principal nature-based solution for offsetting relative sea-level rise in the Ganges-
Brahmaputra delta is the unabated delivery, dispersal, and deposition of the rivers'~ 1 billion …

Re-conceptualizing the Anthropocene: A call for collaboration

ES Brondizio, K O'brien, X Bai, F Biermann… - Global Environmental …, 2016 - Elsevier
Since it was first proposed in 2000, the concept of the Anthropocene has evolved in breadth
and diversely. The concept encapsulates the new and unprecedented planetary-scale …

Profiling risk and sustainability in coastal deltas of the world

ZD Tessler, CJ Vörösmarty, M Grossberg, I Gladkova… - Science, 2015 - science.org
Deltas are highly sensitive to increasing risks arising from local human activities, land
subsidence, regional water management, global sea-level rise, and climate extremes. We …

Vulnerability and risk of deltaic social-ecological systems exposed to multiple hazards

M Hagenlocher, FG Renaud, S Haas… - Science of the total …, 2018 - Elsevier
Coastal river deltas are hotspots of global change impacts. Sustainable delta futures are
increasingly threatened due to rising hazard exposure combined with high vulnerabilities of …