Transformations, Agency and Positive Tipping Points: A Resilience-Based Approach
Per Olsson,
Michele-Lee Moore
Abstract:This chapter focuses on a social-ecological systems (SES) resilience-based approach to critically examine the relationship between tipping points and transformative change. Resilience science provides a framework for understanding the dynamics and interdependencies of complex systems and their ability to persist, adapt, or transform in response to change and uncertainty. Transformation refers to a deliberate and fundamental restructuring of a system or a set of relationships that hold a system in a particular … Show more
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