Structural Controllability of Coupled Regime Shifts
An application of network structural-controllability theory to the management of cascading regime shifts: each regime shift is modeled as a causal network, and the minimum set of driver nodes required to steer it identifies leverage points for intervention. Analyzing coupled shifts shows that sharing drivers makes them jointly easier to control while coupling that introduces new feedback loops makes them harder, with both network topology and coupling strength governing manageability.
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This paper applies the theory of structural controllability of complex networks to the problem of managing cascading (coupled) regime shifts in ecosystems and other social-ecological systems. Regime …