Sentences with phrase «biosphere integrity»

However, side - effects likely include pushing us closer to the PBs for freshwater use and further transgression of the PBs for biosphere integrity, land - system change, and biogeochemical flows.

Of the seven measured planetary boundaries, four are currently transgressed (biosphere integrity, climate change, biogeochemical flows and land - system change) 3.

Two of the PBs — climate change and biosphere integrity — are recognized as «core» PBs based on their fundamental importance for the ES.

Anthropogenic perturbation levels of four of the ES processes / features (climate change, biosphere integrity, biogeochemical flows, and land - system change) exceed the proposed PB (see the figure).

Two core boundaries — climate change and biosphere integrity — have been identified, each of which has the potential on its own to drive the Earth system into a new state should they be substantially and persistently transgressed.

The authors, led by Will Steffen of Australian National University and Johan Rockström of the Stockholm Resilience Center, have tried to refine how they approach risks related to disrupting ecosystems — not simply pointing to lost biological diversity but instead devising a measure of general «biosphere integrity.»

The paper is behind a paywall, but the Stockholm Resilience Center, which has led this work, has summarized the results, including the authors» conclusion that we're in the danger zone on four of the nine boundaries: climate change, loss of biosphere integrity, land - system change and alteration of biogeochemical cycles (for the nutrients phosphorus and nitrogen).

Such processes include biosphere integrity (see Brook et al 2013), biogeochemical flows, freshwater use, and land - system change.

Two core boundaries — climate change and biosphere integrity — have been identified, each of which has the potential on its own to drive the Earth System into a new state should they be substantially and persistently transgressed.

Processes for which global - level boundaries can not yet be quantified are represented by gray wedges; these are atmospheric aerosol loading, novel entities, and the functional role of biosphere integrity.

Regional - level boundaries as well as globally aggregated PBs have now been developed for biosphere integrity (earlier «biodiversity loss»), biogeochemical flows, land - system change, and freshwater use.

Two of the PBs — climate change and biosphere integrity — are recognized as «core» PBs based on their fundamental importance for the ES.

Not exact matches

Then last week, a mysterious decline in the level of oxygen inside the biosphere became critical and project managers were forced to start injecting oxygen into the system, breaching the integrity of the «closed» system.

Were it up to me, the «EP» in EPA really would refer to a wholistic endeavour aimed at maintaing the integrity of the biosphere, of which the control of contaminants * and other activities likely to disrupt the integrity of the biosphere * would be parts.

Fran B., but EPA's charge is not (yet) «integrity of the biosphere»; it's tied to «human harm», of which one can find some coming from wind turbines.

The noise from wind turbines doesn't disrupt the integrity of the biosphere.

In 2009, researchers identified nine global priorities linked to human impacts on the environment, and identified two, - climate change and the integrity of the biosphere, - that were vital to the human condition.

The Principles observe that States are obliged to protect human life and the integrity of the biosphere through an existing network of national and international obligations.