Social-Ecological Resilience

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Regime Shifts Database (RSDB)

Regime shifts, for example the collapse of an important fishery, frequently have substantial impacts on ecosystem services and human well-being and often are expensive or impossible to reverse. Shifts between regimes occur when a critical threshold or tipping point is crossed that triggers a reorganization of the dominant feedbacks in social-ecological systems, leading to large, nonlinear, and often abrupt changes.