Planetary Boundaries: Exploring the Safe Operating Space for Humanity

Planetary Boundaries: Exploring the Safe Operating Space for Humanity

Anthropogenic pressures on the Earth System have reached a scale where abrupt global environmental change can no longer be excluded. We propose a new approach to global sustainability in which we define planetary boundaries within which we expect that humanity can operate safely. Transgressing one o...

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Main Authors: Johan Rockström, Will Steffen, Kevin Noone, Åsa Persson, F. Stuart III Chapin, Eric Lambin, Timothy M. Lenton, Marten Scheffer, Carl Folke, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Björn Nykvist, Cynthia A. de Wit, Terry Hughes, Sander van der Leeuw, Henning Rodhe, Sverker Sörlin, Peter K. Snyder, Robert Costanza, Uno Svedin, Malin Falkenmark, Louise Karlberg, Robert W. Corell, Victoria J. Fabry, James Hansen, Brian Walker, Diana Liverman, Katherine Richardson, Paul Crutzen, Jonathan Foley
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Resilience Alliance 2009-12-01
Series:Ecology and Society
Subjects:
atmospheric aerosol loading
biogeochemical nitrogen cycle
biological diversity
chemical pollution
climate change
Earth
global freshwater use
land system change
ocean acidification
phosphorus cycle
planetary boundaries
stratospheric ozone
sustainability
Online Access:http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol14/iss2/art32/

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