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  Social tipping processes towards climate action: A conceptual framework

Winkelmann, R., Donges, J. F., Smith, E. K., Milkoreit, M., Eder, C., Heitzig, J., Katsanidou, A., Wiedermann, M., Wunderling, N., Lenton, T. M. (2022): Social tipping processes towards climate action: A conceptual framework. - Ecological Economics, 192, 107242.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2021.107242

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Winkelmann, Ricarda1, Author              
Donges, Jonathan Friedemann1, Author              
Smith, E. Keith2, Author
Milkoreit, Manjana2, Author
Eder, Christina2, Author
Heitzig, Jobst1, Author              
Katsanidou, Alexia2, Author
Wiedermann, Marc1, Author              
Wunderling, Nico1, Author              
Lenton, Timothy M.2, Author
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 Abstract: Societal transformations are necessary to address critical global challenges, such as mitigation of anthropogenic climate change and reaching UN sustainable development goals. Recently, social tipping processes have received increased attention, as they present a form of social change whereby a small change can shift a sensitive social system into a qualitatively different state due to strongly self-amplifying (mathematically positive) feedback mechanisms. Social tipping processes with respect to technological and energy systems, political mobilization, financial markets and sociocultural norms and behaviors have been suggested as potential key drivers towards climate action. Drawing from expert insights and comprehensive literature review, we develop a framework to identify and characterize social tipping processes critical to facilitating rapid social transformations. We find that social tipping processes are distinguishable from those of already more widely studied climate and ecological tipping dynamics. In particular, we identify human agency, social-institutional network structures, different spatial and temporal scales and increased complexity as key distinctive features underlying social tipping processes. Building on these characteristics, we propose a formal definition for social tipping processes and filtering criteria for those processes that could be decisive for future trajectories towards climate action. We illustrate this definition with the European political system as an example of potential social tipping processes, highlighting the prospective role of the FridaysForFuture movement. Accordingly, this conceptual framework for social tipping processes can be utilized to illuminate mechanisms for necessary transformative climate change mitigation policies and actions.

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Language(s): eng - English
 Dates: 2021-09-202021-10-162022-01-20
 Publication Status: Finally published
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 Rev. Type: Peer
 Identifiers: PIKDOMAIN: RD1 - Earth System Analysis
Organisational keyword: RD1 - Earth System Analysis
Organisational keyword: FutureLab - Earth Resilience in the Anthropocene
PIKDOMAIN: RD4 - Complexity Science
Organisational keyword: RD4 - Complexity Science
Organisational keyword: FutureLab - Game Theory & Networks of Interacting Agents
Research topic keyword: Tipping Elements
Research topic keyword: 1.5/2°C limit
Research topic keyword: Climate Policy
Research topic keyword: Complex Networks
Research topic keyword: Nonlinear Dynamics
Regional keyword: Germany
Regional keyword: Global
Model / method: copan:CORE
Model / method: Qualitative Methods
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OATYPE: Green Open Access
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2021.107242
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Title: Ecological Economics
Source Genre: Journal, SCI, Scopus, p3
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Pages: - Volume / Issue: 192 Sequence Number: 107242 Start / End Page: - Identifier: CoNE: https://publications.pik-potsdam.de/cone/journals/resource/journals107
Publisher: Elsevier