Sentences with phrase «planetary boundaries focus»

Planetary boundaries focus on our planet's natural systems and how human activity is changing them.

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The planetary boundaries expert group suggests a focus on abandoned cropland in Europe and North America, together with land in the former Soviet Union and «some areas of Africa's savannas and South America's Cerrado» for this unavoidable increase in cultivated area.

One bid for preservation initiated in 2009 by 29 scientists from around the world focused on the concept of planetary boundaries.

Here, we revise and update the planetary boundary framework, with a focus on the underpinning biophysical science, based on targeted input from expert research communities and on more general scientific advances over the past 5 years.

So for the policy - relevant issues, we generally focus on the physical atmosphere - ocean system, sometimes with coupled carbon - vegetation system, and treat the major ice sheets, orbital parameters and planetary topography as fixed boundary conditions.

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).