Case Cards
Cases play different roles. Failure illustrations show where a proposed repair problem may exist. Successful-repair comparisons show that a bounded pressure trajectory changed under a specified regime. Boundary cases show where the theory should narrow, where a rival may explain more, or where slow recovery should not be mistaken for continuing repair failure. No case is proof by itself.
bounded illustration
South Korea fertility
Illustrates reproductive-agency and care constraints in one setting; does not establish a general causal mechanism.
bounded illustration
New Hampshire AI robocall
Documents a synthetic-media event and governance response; illustrates provenance and response-timing questions without establishing incremental verification cost or behavioral effect.
bounded illustration
Climate misinformation and repair latency
Illustrates a climate misinformation and delay problem; does not establish Repair-Lag causality or the independent effect of misinformation.
successful repair
Vienna–Montreal ozone regime
Substantial adaptive successful repair at the institutional-control and pressure-reversal levels; full total-column ozone recovery remains conditional and incomplete.
boundary
North American acid-deposition control and uneven monitored surface-water chemistry recovery
Boundary case: institutional control and pressure reduction succeeded faster than regionally uneven monitored surface-water chemistry recovery; biological recovery remains undefined and residual damage cannot automatically be coded as continuing institutional repair failure.