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cord-212813-yrca1hij	Winkelmann, Ricarda	Social tipping processes for sustainability: An analytical framework	2020-10-09		.txt	text/plain	10065	450	38	In particular, we identify human agency, social-institutional network structures, different spatial and temporal scales and increased complexity as key distinctive features underlying social tipping processes. Following these distinctions, we present a definitional framework for identifying social tipping processes for sustainability, where under critical conditions, a small perturbation can induce non-linear systemic change, driven by positive feedback mechanisms and cascading network effects. We adopt this framework to understand potential social tipping dynamics in the European political system, where the FridaysForFuture movement (16) pushes the system towards criticality, generating the conditions for shifting climate policy regimes into a qualitatively different state. Accordingly, the European political system could constitute a potential 'social tipping element', where as it nears critical conditions, a small change to the system or its broader environment could lead to large-scale macroscopic changes, affected by cascading network dynamics and positive feedback mechanisms.	./cache/cord-212813-yrca1hij.txt	./txt/cord-212813-yrca1hij.txt