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Stability landscape of the ES in terms of ψ and H.

Stability landscape of the ES in terms of ψ and H.

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Based on a dynamic systems approach to the Landau-Ginzburg model, a phase space description of the Earth System (ES) in the transition to the Anthropocene is presented. It is shown that, for a finite amount of human-driven change, there is a stable equilibrium state that is an attractor of trajectories in the system's phase space and corresponds to...

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