Sentences with phrase «in planetary boundary»

The influence of additional vertical layers in the planetary boundary layer below 1000 meters on the Arctic climate has been investigated.

Developments in the planetary boundaries concept provide a framework to support global sustainability.

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In short, the formation of the planetary society, the approaching of the earth's ecological limits, and the attainment of certain built - in or intrinsic boundaries all are coming at a time when the scientific and technological capabilities of men are enlarging the range of alternative futureIn short, the formation of the planetary society, the approaching of the earth's ecological limits, and the attainment of certain built - in or intrinsic boundaries all are coming at a time when the scientific and technological capabilities of men are enlarging the range of alternative futurein or intrinsic boundaries all are coming at a time when the scientific and technological capabilities of men are enlarging the range of alternative futures.

Many of the criticisms offered by the Breakthrough Institute were raised in the original paper that presented the planetary boundaries concept, published in Nature on September 24, 2009.

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.

«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.

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

Reducing the emissions of the greenhouse gases that cause global warming makes the most sense in the context of planetary boundaries, and many of the other thresholds collapse into it, Blomqvist and his colleagues note.

Johan Rockström of Stockholm University and his colleagues are proposing nine «planetary boundaries» in this week's Nature.

The planetary boundary (PB) concept, introduced in 2009, aimed to define the environmental limits within which humanity can safely operate.

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.

«Since both stars and the planets in our Solar System produce radio emission, detailed study of the radio emission properties of these brown dwarfs may enable us to distinguish where the boundary between stellar and planetary behavior occurs in these not - quite - stars, not - quite - planets,» Osten explained.

Plus Johan Rockstrom, the Swedish leader of planetary boundaries, followed by Lynn Benander on community power in New England.

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.

A scientific framework in support of global sustainability, emerging from Earth system science and resilience research, is the recent concept of Planetary Boundaries (Rockström et al., 2009).

He helped lead the internationally renowned team of scientists that presented the planetary boundaries framework, first published in 2009, with an update in 2015.

I think the work of Johan Rockstrom and the other 70 scientists in defining nine planetary boundaries will and should help ensure we can be more preventive and precautionary.

In 1961, he transformed his vision that the dominant color from this perspective would be blue, and that all man - made boundaries could be overcome with this color, into his series «Planetary Reliefs.»

The planetary boundaries efforts are much broader and, frankly, run into bigger troubles with comparability across dimensions — something that has come out in the Nature published commentaries on those studies.

To me it is astonishing that both of these posts seem to take us to task for not being aware of the «planetary boundaries» research (more on that below) when the central conclusion from that work is that real boundaries need to be set in multiple dimensions — exactly what we argue.

A vast number of scientists, engineers, and visionary businessmen are boldly designing a future that is based on low - impact energy pathways and living within safe planetary boundaries; a future in which substantial health gains can be achieved by eliminating fossil - fuel pollution; and a future in which we strive to hand over a liveable planet to posterity.

In particular, the new «Planetary Boundaries» paper, forthcoming in Nature, makes the case that humanity has overshot the global carrying capacity in a variety of key areas, including GHGs [greenhouse gases], nitrogen, phosphorus, fresh water, land use, and biodiversitIn particular, the new «Planetary Boundaries» paper, forthcoming in Nature, makes the case that humanity has overshot the global carrying capacity in a variety of key areas, including GHGs [greenhouse gases], nitrogen, phosphorus, fresh water, land use, and biodiversitin Nature, makes the case that humanity has overshot the global carrying capacity in a variety of key areas, including GHGs [greenhouse gases], nitrogen, phosphorus, fresh water, land use, and biodiversitin a variety of key areas, including GHGs [greenhouse gases], nitrogen, phosphorus, fresh water, land use, and biodiversity.

There are no planetary boundaries that limit continued growth in human populations and economic advance, they argue.

You can get a feel for his work and views in the video above in which he explains 2009 research on «planetary boundaries.»

That's significant considering that the core questions were how do we come up with a future in which humanity thrives when there are 9 billion of us, mostly urban, and stretching planetary and political boundaries.

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).

It can also be noted that Ellis et al.'s critique simply echoes the standpoints regarding Planetary Boundaries research that the same group (Blomqvist et al., 2012) brought forward in 2012.

Thus, some heat gets converted to kinetic energy, but that gets converted back to heat, either by viscosity or by thermally - indirect circulations that produce APE while pulling heat downward in the process (LHSO: Ferrel cell (driven by extratropical storm track activity), Planetary - scale overturning in the stratosphere and mesosphere (includes Brewer - Dobson circulation (I'm not sure if the whole thing is the Brewer - Dobson circulation or if only part of it is)-RRB-, some motions in the ocean; LVO: wind driven mixing of the boundary layer and of the upper ocean (though mixing itself tends to destroy the APE that the kinetic energy would create by forcing heat downward)-RRB-.

In essence, the Planetary Boundary analysis simply identifies Earth System processes that — in the same manner as climate — regulate the stability of the Earth System, and if impacted too far by human activities potentially can disrupt the functioning of the Earth SysteIn essence, the Planetary Boundary analysis simply identifies Earth System processes that — in the same manner as climate — regulate the stability of the Earth System, and if impacted too far by human activities potentially can disrupt the functioning of the Earth Systein the same manner as climate — regulate the stability of the Earth System, and if impacted too far by human activities potentially can disrupt the functioning of the Earth System.

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.»

A diagram from a paper defining «planetary boundaries» for human activities shows areas of greatest risk in red.

Yet the planetary boundaries (PB) framework — in its original form and as revised by Steffen et al — obscures rather than clarifies the environmental and sustainability challenges faced by humanity this century.

6:57 p.m. Addendum For relevant work with somewhat different conclusions review the presentations from «Intensifying agriculture within planetary boundaries,» a session at the Planet Under Pressure conference in London last March.

Dynamical upward transport by convection removes excess heat from the surface more efficiently than longwave radiation is able to accomplish in the presence of a humid, optically thick boundary layer, and deposits it in the upper troposphere where it is more easily radiated to space, thereby affecting the planetary energy balance.

On the eve of this year's World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, a team of scientists led by Will Steffen of the Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University and the Australian National University report in the journal Science that the world has now crossed four of nine planetary boundaries within which humans could have hoped for a safe operating space.

A joint program between EAT and WBCSD, Food Reform for Sustainability and Health (FReSH) is designed to accelerate transformational change in global food systems, to reach healthy, enjoyable diets for all, that are produced responsibly within planetary boundaries.

If one or more of these boundaries is breached, environmental trajectories that veer from their natural path could impact planetary systems so severely that the very survival of the human species would be in jeopardy.

This guidance document provides an overview on: the evolving contribution of business to the sustainable development debate; planetary boundaries, environmental challenges and their implications for business; the greening of enterprises and workplaces, and; the role that business and employers» organizations can play in lobbying and service development in the environmental field.

In the macroturbulent simulation, there is no subgrid - scale diffusion of heat or momentum above the planetary boundary layer.

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/earth-users-guide/ anthrome map in Wired blog piece about Planetary Boundaries paper.

The nitrogen cycle is one of the «nine planetary boundaries» deemed to have already been breached in 2009, when those designations were outlined by Rockström.

There is a paper that appeared in January in Science: Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet.

NOAH is a grassroots organisation founded in 1969 working for equal access to the Earth's resources for current and future generations staying within planetary boundaries.

The planetary boundary (PB) concept, introduced in 2009, aimed to define the environmental limits within which humanity can safely operate.

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 Planetary Boundaries framework can help in formulating policies and targets to operationalize the global environmental dimension of the 7th Environment Action Programme and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the EU.

Within the planetary boundary layer, in situ instrumentation includes towers, tethered balloons, and surface data collection platforms.

Furthermore, it uses the translated boundaries as benchmarks for EU environmental performance,, and offers a preliminary mapping of current EU environmental policy in order to identify possible entry points for mainstreaming the Planetary Bboundaries as benchmarks for EU environmental performance,, and offers a preliminary mapping of current EU environmental policy in order to identify possible entry points for mainstreaming the Planetary BoundariesBoundaries.

The paper, Greenhouse Effect in Semi-Transparent Planetary Atmospheres by Ferenc M. Miskolczi shows that the current greenhouse effect equations are incomplete because they do not include the correct boundary conditions.

The planetary - boundaries group, which published a sort of manifesto in 2009, argues for increased restraint and, where necessary, direct intervention aimed at bringing all sorts of things in the Earth system, from the alkalinity of the oceans to the rate of phosphate run - off from the land, close to the conditions pertaining in the Holocene.