Sentences with phrase «of planetary boundaries»

The framework combines the concept of planetary boundaries with the complementary concept of social boundaries.

And so, that is really the notion of these planetary boundaries — let's see where we don't want to go.

Scientific studies indicate the existence of these planetary boundaries.

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

If the notion of planetary boundaries had existed at the time, surely someone would have warned against the spread of agriculture.

We welcome critique of the planetary boundaries framework, yet Stuart Pimm seems to have misunderstood the concept (9 December, p...

Scientists propose a list of planetary boundaries for human impacts ranging from biodiversity loss to the global nitrogen cycle

brings together the leading packaging decision - makers and influencers to focus on contextualizing opportunities for packaging, expanding the possibilities while bringing perspective of our planetary boundaries.

After all, when a large enough number of local ecosystems transform, a global shift occurs, notes Johan Rockström, one of the authors of the planetary boundaries concept and a natural resource management professor at Stockholm University.

«It would be good to define planetary boundaries at multiple scales — local, regional and global,» adds ecologist Jonathan Foley, director of the Institute on the Environment at the University of Minnesota and a co-author of the planetary boundaries concept.

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.

The point of the planetary boundaries, according to its authors, is to enable an enduring human prosperity that doesn't destroy the planet's natural resources in the process — ultimately undercutting that good fortune.

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

The 2015 science update draws upon the over 60 scientific articles that have been published specifically scrutinizing different aspects of the Planetary Boundaries framework (amongst them the contributions by all these four researchers), and the most recent advancements in Earth System science.

Response to Ellis et al. on planetary boundaries Of course we welcome constructive debate on and criticism of the planetary boundaries (PB) update paper.

The Science paper published today (16th January 2015), is a natural science update and advancement of the planetary boundaries framework.

It seems hardly surprising, given the Ellis et al.'s misunderstanding of the Planetary Boundaries framework that their interpretation of the implications of operationalizing the framework rests also on misunderstandings.

This ought to be reassuring for Ellis et al. who portray implementation of Planetary Boundary thinking as a dark force of planetary rule.

The Planetary Boundaries is, then, nothing more than a natural sciences contribution to an important societal discussion and which presents evidence which can support the definition of Planetary Boundaries to safeguard a stable and resilient Earth system.

I've yet to see anybody seriously or credibly claiming that we have transgressed some sort of planetary boundary for radiological pollution.

S. R. Carpenter and E. M. Bennett, «Reconsideration of the Planetary Boundary for Phosphorus,» Environmental Research Letters, DOI: 10.1088 / 1748-9326/6 / 1 / 014009 (2011).

You can not have a document titled «the future we want» without any mention of planetary boundaries, tipping points, or the Earth's carrying capacity.

Due to these actions, the idea of planetary boundaries (planetary boundaries) has gained momentum, and several scientists now claim that we must get ready for extremely severe scenarios and dramatic consequences.

We apply a globally uniform threshold to the AGCM, and model subgrid fluctuations in wind speed using information from the AGCM's parameterizations of the planetary boundary layer, along with dry and moist convection.

The focus of evaluating AGCMs has been on large - scale dynamics and certain meteorological variables; far less so on the partitioning of sensible and latent heat flux, or the moisture content of the planetary boundary layer.

Although existing analyses have quantified the links between social performance and biophysical indicators such as energy use32, greenhouse gas emissions33 and ecological footprint34, these analyses have not considered the implications of planetary boundaries on social outcomes.

Feedback loops run both ways, and society may mitigate or adapt to the transgression of planetary boundaries, thus changing the underlying system structure or its parameters28.

The ecological footprint and material footprint are not part of the planetary boundaries framework, and partially overlap with the climate change indicator (they both include fossil energy as a component).

The political model that underlies the power grab of scientists is one of «trusteeship,» a form of which was described by PIK's John Schellnhuber, an early advocate of the planetary boundaries model of global politics, in Der Spiegel:

Stop and think for a moment about the basic elements of the planetary boundaries hypothesis: apocalyptic fears of the future, a professed desire to return to an earlier state of nature, hypocrisy about wealth, appeals to higher authorities.

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).

Although the 2009 study's authors also noted no thresholds exist for some of their planetary boundaries they proposed limits on land - use change, freshwater, nutrients and biodiversity based on two criteria.

To more precisely define what it is we must sustain, Johan Rockström, a professor of Environmental Science at Stockholm University, introduced the concept of planetary boundaries, or the idea that our species must live within a safe operating space.

Citing a new Breakthrough Institute report released this week, The Economist writes that the concept of planetary boundaries has «numerous drawbacks»: