Resilience 2011 -- Resilience, Innovation and Sustainability: Navigating the Complexities of Global Change -- Second International Science and Policy Conference -- March 11-16, 2011
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[The Domino Effect: A Network Analysis of Regime Shifts Drivers and Causal Pathways - Juan Carlos Rocha Gordo, Reinette Oonsie Biggs and Garry Peterson ]
Anthropocene and the likelihood of regime shifts
Regime shift as a large, abrupt persistent change in the structure and function of a system
- Looking for policy relevance, as a substantial change in ecosystem services
Global change drivers, definition from MEA 2005
1 What are the major global change drivers of regime shifts?
2. Impacts
3. Cascading effects
Regime shifts database
Policy-relevant regime shifts
- Reversibility: Hysteretic, Irreversible, Reversible or Unknown
Network analysis
- Drivers
- Processes
- Measure centrality:
- Degree, thenumber of edgea a vertex is connected to (Newman 2010): In-degree and out-degree
- Betweenness, the extent to which a vertex lies on paths between other verticies
- Eigenvector, vertex is important if directly or indirectly connect to ther vertices that are in turn important (Allesina and Pascual 2009), like Google PageRank
Found only a few drivers have a lot of links
Local centrality as indegree; global centrality as eigenvector
Cascading effects
- Up to 68 new inconvenient feedback shen coupling regime shift pairs (e.g. marine foodwebs collapse and kelps transitions)
[Regime Shifts in Two Australian Inland Cities, Kalgoorlie and Broken Hill - Helen Allison]
Urban resilience from resalliance.org
- Metabolic flows
- Governance networks
- Social dynamics
- Built environment
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