Sentences with phrase «planetary boundaries framework for»

Sandin, G., Peters, G. M. & Svanström, M. Using the planetary boundaries framework for setting impact - reduction targets in LCA contexts.

He is an internationally recognized scientist on global sustainability issues, where he, e.g., led the recent development of the new Planetary Boundaries framework for human development in the current era of rapid global change.

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«The planetary boundaries framework is not a useful guide for policy or environmental management in any concrete sense, as it does not capture the challenges involved in most of the environmental problems it lists,» argues geographer Linus Blomqvist, policy associate at the institute's Conservation Program and co-author of the review.

The planetary boundaries framework defines a safe operating space for humanity based on the intrinsic biophysical processes that regulate the stability of the Earth system.

The loss is due to changes in land use and puts levels of biodiversity beyond the «safe limit» recently proposed by the planetary boundaries — an international framework that defines a safe operating space for humanity.

Steffen et al (2015) revise the «planetary boundaries framework» initially proposed in 2009 as the «safe limits» for human alteration of Earth processes (Rockstrom et al 2009).

In 2012, the boundaries work helped produce a compelling alternative framework for navigating the Anthropocene — «Planetary Opportunities: A Social Contract for Global Change Science to Contribute to a Sustainable Future.»

The coming SDG (Sustainable Development Goals) framework includes a proposed set of four goals (oceans, climate, biodiversity and freshwater), which is a de-facto example of applying planetary boundary thinking to create a global framework for safeguarding a stable environment on the planet for societies and communities across the world.

The planetary boundaries framework defines a safe operating space for humanity based on the intrinsic biophysical processes that regulate the stability of the Earth system.

The Planetary Boundaries framework proposes quantitative limits for human perturbation of critical Earth system processes, and a «safe operating space» within which human activity should attempt to stay in order to avert the risk of large - scale, possibly abrupt or irreversible environmental change.

The failure to account for different environments points to the main problem with the planetary boundaries framework: it only measures environmental change as negative — as progression toward supposed biophysical boundaries — and never as positive, either for humans (e.g., more food) or environments (e.g., higher yields resulting in less deforestation).

The planetary boundaries advocates, consist with their hierarchical values framework, call for «universal clean energy» and recommend development targets focused not on measuring expanded energy access, but rather carbon dioxide emissions (here in PDF).