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social tipping points: a standalone construct

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Sustainability science

points at which small interventions in social, economic or technological systems can trigger rapid, self-reinforcing change toward decarbonization.

In sustainability science, social tipping points refers to points at which small interventions in social, economic or technological systems can trigger rapid, self-reinforcing change toward decarbonization. This meaning comes from Otto (2020) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.[1]

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  1. Otto, I. M., Donges, J. F., Cremades, R., Bhowmik, A., Hewitt, R. J., Lucht, W., Rockström, J., Allerberger, F., McCaffrey, M., Doe, S. S. P., Lenferna, A., Morán, N., van Vuuren, D. P., & Schellnhuber, H. J. (2020). Social tipping dynamics for stabilizing Earth’s climate by 2050. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(5), 2354-2365. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1900577117

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