Soils provide us with food, feed, fiber, and fuel. Furthermore, they support many different forms
of life on Earth. This book aims to promote the understanding of soils, their development, …

All ecosystems are exposed to gradual changes in climate, nutrient loading, habitat
fragmentation or biotic exploitation. Nature is usually assumed to respond to gradual change in a …

Tipping points in complex systems may imply risks of unwanted collapse, but also
opportunities for positive change. Our capacity to navigate such risks and opportunities can be …

▪ Abstract We review the evidence of regime shifts in terrestrial and aquatic environments in
relation to resilience of complex adaptive ecosystems and the functional roles of biological …

How do we explain the remarkably abrupt changes that sometimes occur in nature and
society--and can we predict why and when they happen? This book offers a comprehensive …

… Scheffer can be seen as a milestone in the recognition of shallow lakes as a research topic
in its own right. Scheffer … What is new is that Scheffer links mathematics very nicely with what …

TURBULENCE AND HAUSDORFF DIMENSION Vladimir Scheffer Dept. of Mathematics
Stanford University Stanford, California 94305/USA §1 … Vladimir Scheffer Dept. of …

Resilience thinking addresses the dynamics and development of complex social–ecological
systems (SES). Three aspects are central: resilience, adaptability and transformability. …

Although Earth has undergone many periods of significant environmental change, the planet's
environment has been unusually stable for the past 10,000 years 1, 2, 3. This period of …

Anthropogenic pressures on the Earth System have reached a scale where abrupt global
environmental change can no longer be excluded. We propose a new approach to global …