Sentences with phrase «on planetary boundaries»

Bill McKibben certainly has an enviable way with words: Nature Magazine has a new feature on planetary boundaries, which once crossed have devastating biological consequences — and we've already crossed three of the

National Environmental Performance on Planetary Boundaries.

Reading each of the chapters on planetary boundaries puts one in mind of an attempt to use the concept of irreducible complexity to make an argument for «intelligent design».

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

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

«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.

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

On this week's show: Updating the planetary boundaries framework, an accounting of ocean plastics, and a roundup of daily news stories.

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.

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.

With the discovery of water ice on other planetary objects, scientists are abuzz over the probability of the presence of — and the prospect of supporting — life beyond the boundaries of planet Earth.

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.

«At those altitudes, there is no planetary boundary - layer friction with the surface (meaning, the surface terrain does not exert a frictional drag on the wind moving above it), so high - speed winds might be possible.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

And all that acceleration (mostly since 1950, as I wrote yesterday) has pushed us out of four safe zones, according to the 18 authors of the updated assessment of environmental boundaries, published online today by the journal Science here: «Planetary Boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planboundaries, published online today by the journal Science here: «Planetary Boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planBoundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet.»

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.

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.

Hansen, and more recently the authors of a bracing new paper on «planetary boundaries», have made a compelling case that 350 ppm is a threshold that we don't want to exceed for long.

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.

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

It is rapidly expanding energy use, mainly driven by fossil fuels, that explains why humanity is on the verge of breaching planetary sustainability boundaries through global warming, biodiversity loss, and disturbance of the nitrogen - cycle balance and other measures of the sustainability of the earth's ecosystem.

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.

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

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.

An international team of 18 experts, expanding on a 2009 report about «planetary boundaries» for safe human use, also [continue reading...]

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.

«Even under best - case scenario conditions,» Hickel argued, «absolute decoupling of GDP growth from material use is not possible on a global scale,» and certainly is not enough to reduce material use sufficiently to stay within planetary boundaries.

Some studies apply a top - down approach that distributes shares of each planetary boundary to countries based on an allocation formula9, 10,11, while others apply a bottom - up approach that associates local or regional environmental limits with each planetary boundary12, 13.

An economist by training (Erasmus University Rotterdam), with hands - on experience in sustainable development, her career has been guided by a motivation to ensure dignified living conditions for all of human society within planetary boundaries.

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).