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Social tipping processes towards climate action: a conceptual framework

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In this paper, the authors identify human agency, social-institutional network structures, different spatial and temporal scales and increased complexity as key distinctive features underlying social tipping processes and propose a formal definition for social tipping process and filtering criteria for those processes that could be decisive for future trajectories towards climate action.
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This article is published in Ecological Economics.The article was published on 2022-02-01. It has received 24 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Climate change & Social change.

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Perspectives on tipping points in integrated models of the natural and human Earth system: cascading effects and telecoupling

TL;DR: In this article , the authors show the importance of the interplay between human societies and Earth systems in creating tipping points and cascading effects and the way they in turn affect sustainability and security.
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Group identities can undermine social tipping after intervention.

TL;DR: This article found that social tipping was a potent but unreliable route to cultural change, and that even a trivial activation of polarized identities undercut the socially beneficial tipping that otherwise occurred, even when choice and identity were unlinked.
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Coal-exit alliance must confront freeriding sectors to propel Paris-aligned momentum

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors introduce dynamic policy evaluation (DPE), an evidence-based approach for emulating real-world policy-making, which endogenizes national political decision-making into the integrated assessment model REMIND via multistage feedback loops with a probabilistic coalition accession model.
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Bounded rational agents playing a public goods game.

TL;DR: In this article , an agent-based model for human behavior in the well-known public goods game (PGG) is developed making use of bounded rationality, but without invoking mechanisms of learning.
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Diffusion of Innovations

TL;DR: A history of diffusion research can be found in this paper, where the authors present a glossary of developments in the field of Diffusion research and discuss the consequences of these developments.
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The consequences of modernity

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a Phenomonology of modernity and post-modernity in the context of trust in abstract systems and the transformation of intimacy in the modern world.
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Agendas, alternatives, and public policies

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the origins, rationality, incrementalism, and Garbage Cans of the idea of agenda status and present a case study of noninterview measures of Agenda status.
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Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory

Bruno Latour
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the difficulty of being an ANT and the difficulties of tracing the social networks of a social network and how to re-trace the social network.
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A safe operating space for humanity

TL;DR: Identifying and quantifying planetary boundaries that must not be transgressed could help prevent human activities from causing unacceptable environmental change, argue Johan Rockstrom and colleagues.
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