The Tipping Point System

The Tipping Point System (TPS) is backed by the rigor of scientific research and includes reference to 30+ major scientific publications. The most important ones are listed below.

Personal Tipping Points

• A Mindset for the Anthropocene - Dr. Thomas Bruhn, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam, Germany

Social Tipping Points

• How Behavior Spreads - Damon Centola, Director of Network Dynamics Group, Annenburg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
• The Age of Social Sensing - Prof dr. Boleslaw Syzmanski, at the Department of Computer Science, Founding Head of the Center for Pervasive Computing and Networking, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. 
• Coherence or Flexibility? - Prof dr. Sabine Brunswicker, Digital Innovation at Purdue University and Director of the Research Center for Open Digital Innovation
• Unleashing the Crowd - Prof dr. Ann Majchrzak, Chair of Business Administration and Digital Innovation at the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California.

Planetary Tipping Points

• Planetary Boundaries - Prof dr. Johan Rockström, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Sweden
• An Urban Approach to Planetary Boundaries - Dr. Daniel Hoornweg, Chair of Energy Systems and Nuclear Science, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada
• Doughnut Economics - Kate Raworth, Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University, UK.
• Cosmolocalism - Michel Bauwens, Dr. Jose Ramos, Founder of Action Foresight and Vasilis Kostakis, Professor of P2P Governance at TalTech and Faculty Associate at Harvard University
• Leverage Points for Sustainability Transformation - Prof dr. Daniel J. Lang, Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany and Donella Meadows
• Escaping the Progress Trap - Daniel O'Leary
• MuSIASEM: External Limits at the Planetary Level - Mario Giampietro, ICREA

Systemic Tipping Points

• Thrivability Science - Into the Heart of Systems Change - Dr. Anneloes Smitsman, Maastricht Sustainability Institute, Maastricht University, the Netherlands.
• On the Deep Need for Integrative Metatheory in the 21st Century - Nicholas Hedlund, Ph.D.(c), Nicholas Hedlund, Ph.D.(c).
• A series of papers on Large-Scale Collective Action (LSCA) by the Centre for Collective Action Research, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
• Transition Research - Prof dr. Jan Rotmans, Dutch Research Institute for Transitions, Erasmus University Rotterdam.
• The Role of Swarm Intelligence - Prof dr. Chris Callaghan, School of Economic and Business Sciences of the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.