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De kanteling
Hoe samenlevingen kunnen veranderenKan het nog goedkomen met de wereld? Volgens Marten Scheffer wel. En hij is niet de eerste de beste. Winnaar van de Spinozapremie, en internationaal vermaard om zijn baanbrekende onderzoek naar kantelpunten en naar systemen waarin de principes van kantelpunten te zien zijn. Hij stelde vast dat als een systeem kantelt de verandering die optreedt zichzelf versterkt. Aanvankelijk onderzocht hij dit in meren, later ook in andere ecosystemen, maar uit zijn onderzoek blijkt dat het principe universeel is. Dezelfde wiskundige wetmatigheden treden op in allerlei totaal verschillende complexe systemen. In De kanteling beargumenteert Scheffer dat een fundamentele verandering van onze samenlevingen onvermijdelijk is maar ook dat we beter dan ooit in staat zijn om die transformatie vloeiend te laten verlopen. Onder andere vanwege de historische kennis waarop we kunnen bogen en de technologie die ons kan helpen. En Marten Scheffer is hoopvol, al was het maar omdat de mensheid al vele malen eerder uit de problemen is gekomen. Hij betoogt dat het kantelpunt het enige is dat kan opleveren wat de mensheid zo dringend nodig heeft: grote veranderingen, snel.
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Tipping Out of Trouble
How Societies Transformed and How We Can Do So Again'In approachable writing, as over coffee with a friend, this book uses recent science and deep knowledge to show the ways out of current global crises.' Stephen R. Carpenter, winner of the Blue Planet Prize
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Critical Transitions in Nature and Society
Offers an introduction to critical transitions in complex systems - the radical changes that happen at tipping points when thresholds are passed. This title describes the dynamical systems theory behind critical transitions, covering catastrophe theory, bifurcations and chaos.
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Ecology of Shallow Lakes
Ecology of Shallow Lakes brings together current understanding of the mechanisms that drive the diametrically opposite states of water clarity, shown by the cover paintings, found in many shallow lakes and ponds. It gives an outline of the knowledge gained from field observations, experimental work, and restoration studies, linked by a solid theoretical framework.The book focuses on shallow lakes, but the lucid treatment of plankton dynamics, resuspension, light climate and the role of vegetation is relevant to a much wider range of aquatic systems. The models that are used remain simple and most analyses are graphical rather than algebraic. The text will therefore appeal to students, scientists and policy makers in the field of ecology, fisheries, pollution studies and water management, and also to theoreticans who will benefit from the many real-world examples of topics such as predation and competition theory, bifurcation analysis and catastrophe theory. Perhaps most importantly, the book is a remarkable example of how large field experiments and simple models can catalyze our insight into complex ecosystems.Marten Scheffer wrote this book while at the Institute of Inland Water Management and Waste Treatment, RIZA, Lelystad, The Netherlands. He is currently at the Department of Water Quality Management and Aquatic Ecology of the Wageningen Agricultural University.Reviews`Much rarer are textbooks that so succinctly sum up the state-of-the-art knowledge about a subject that they become instant `bibles'. This book is one of these. It is probably one of the best biological textbooks I have read. Scheffer masterfully pulls all this information together under one cover and presents a coherent account, which will serve as a benchmark for the subject. The reader will not gain any great insight into the breeding biology of pike from this book, nor learn much about dragonflies or newts. They will, however, come to understand the essential nature of shallow lakes or, as the author puts it, `how shallow lakes work'. Overall, this book will be of great interest to practical and theoretical ecologists, students and managers in all fields of biology. All freshwater ecologists should certainly read it.' Simon Harrison in Journal of Ecology, 86 `The book by Scheffer can be seen as a milestone in the recognition of shallow lakes as a research topic in its own right. Scheffer uses three approaches concurrently to unravel the functioning of shallow lakes: 1) statistical analysis of large datasets from a variety of lakes; 2) simple abstract models made up of a few non-linear ordinary differential equations, which he calls `mini-models'; and 3) logical reasoning based on a mixture of results from fieldwork, experiments and models. What is new is that Scheffer links mathematics very nicely with what one feels is a correct description of the functioning of a shallow lake. Employing logical reasoning, Scheffer combines all these sources of knowledge into a general, coherent picture of the functioning of a shallow lake.' Wolf Mooij in Aquatic Ecology, 32
€ 149,79