Title | Adaptive Co-Management of “Tipping Points” in Social Ecological Systems: Governing Alternate Stable States in Lake Champlain Basin |
Publication Type | Conference Paper and Presentation |
Year of Publication | 2014 |
Authors | Zia, A, Koliba, C, Bomblies, A, Schroth, AW, Beckage, B |
Conference Name | 2014 Norwich Conference on Earth System Governance: Access and Allocation in the Anthropocene |
Date Published | 2014/07 |
Conference Location | Norwich, UK |
Abstract | When exposed to exogenous shocks or endogenous surprises, recent complexity science-informed research on social ecological systems (SESs) has demonstrated that these systems do not necessarily go through gradual change. Indeed, rather abrupt shifts between alternate stable states can suddenly take place. It is hypothesized that a loss of resilience usually triggers such critical transitions or “tipping points” in the SES’s state variable. Such stochastic fluctuations may often be driven We examine these questions in the light of SES governing water quality in Lake Champlain, affected by nutrient flows from multi-jurisdictional Lake Champlain Basin (LCB) across USA and Canada. Anthropogenic climate change could induce abrupt alternate stable states in the Lake Champlain from more frequent and more intense flooding events in LCB as well as reduced ice cover internally in the lake system. In this study we are modeling a suite of scenarios of human induced climatic change, |
URL | http://norwich2014.earthsystemgovernance.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/NC14-panels-with-abstracts.pdf |
Adaptive Co-Management of “Tipping Points” in Social Ecological Systems: Governing Alternate Stable States in Lake Champlain Basin
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