Sentences with phrase «planetary boundaries»

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

There is no reason sustainability need be defined this way because living within planetary boundaries can be achieved well above those thresholds.

Some of the other six [planetary boundaries] may have local thresholds, but for the most part their global effects are simply the aggregate of the local ones.

Global governance must be strengthened to respect planetary boundaries and to support regional, national and local approaches.

We find it interesting — and encouraging — that societies and the world community are already developing management tools within several «planetary boundary domains».

The attempt to locate planetary boundaries is equally an attempt to locate boundaries for humanity — to put it in its place within a supposed natural order.

So how about combining planetary boundaries together with the concept of social boundaries?

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

However, if all people are to lead a good life within planetary boundaries, then the level of resource use associated with meeting basic needs must be dramatically reduced.

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.

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

Musing on planetary boundaries comic @RogerPielkeJr sees power grab.

«Sensitivity of turbine - height wind speeds to parameters in planetary boundary - layer and surface - layer schemes in the Weather Research and Forecasting Model.»

While Planetary Boundaries research does not dictate how societies should use the insights it provides, «anticipating negative consequences» is at the absolute core of our approach!

According to Lynas, Rockström and his associates — referred to by Lynas as the «planetary boundaries experts group» — believe that they have identified nine fundamental measures of the planet's ecological health that human development must not interfere with, if ecological catastrophe is to be avoided.

The authors identified nine cases in which it is necessary to define planetary boundaries, concluding that three of them have had their limits transgressed so far: climate change; biodiversity loss rate (terrestrial and marine) and interference with the nitrogen cycle.

Physical needs such as nutrition, sanitation, access to electricity and the elimination of extreme poverty could likely be met for all people without transgressing planetary boundaries.

Update, 9:40 p.m. Will Steffen, the lead author of the updated Planetary Boundaries analysis, sent this reply to Ellis and co-authors tonight:

The blogpost mentions «Anthropocene planetary boundaries as «control variables» — this is clearly mainly about control.»

We are perilously close to this proposed planetary boundary already, with 12 per cent of land already devoted exclusively to agriculture.

David's research examines the interconnected challenges of nitrogen pollution, food security and sustainable development, with a particular focus on: 1) the scientific, socioeconomic and legal dimensions of returning to a safe planetary boundary for nitrogen; and 2) balancing the multiple, and often competing objectives of sustainable agriculture — from environmental protection to human wellbeing.

However, they do not sufficiently address interactions between Planetary Boundary processes, nor the EU's international environmental «footprint».

Scientists are now telling us that we're blowing past planetary boundaries at breakneck speed.

The difference in approach comes down to how best to manage the Anthropocene: through planetary boundaries suggested by the environmental systems that allowed the epoch to come about or through local or regional efforts aimed at weighing the complex trade - offs among human resource use, ecological needs and a global push to combat climate change.

Over 10 hours, a host of views were expressed, ranging from a hopeful picture of demographic trends from Gérard - François Dumont of the University of Paris to an urgent call for action to avoid crossing dangerous planetary boundaries from Jeffrey D. Sachs of Columbia University's Earth Institute.

From the social science literature (Biermann et al., 2012) as well as from real world policy making, we see that such global scale regulation is possible to construct in a democratic manner and does establish a safe operating space, e.g. the Montreal protocol, a global agreement to address one of the identified planetary boundaries and which, to our knowledge, is never referred to as a «global authority ruling over humanity».

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

For example, early in the book Simms offers an in - depth analysis of the inherent weaknesses associated with mainstream economics» obsession with growth and GDP, and the importance of recent work to establish planetary boundaries.

As noted above, the UNFCCC process is also fundamentally concerned with establishing the global «rules of the game» by which society can continue to develop within a climate planetary boundary.

Using indicators designed to measure a «safe and just» development space, we quantify the resource use associated with meeting basic human needs, and compare this to downscaled planetary boundaries for over 150 nations.

This Article addresses this gap in the literature by investigating what level of biophysical resource use is associated with meeting people's basic needs, and whether this level of resource use can be extended to all people without exceeding critical planetary boundaries.

Blomqvist concedes that point, yet he says: «Given the sometimes naive reception of the [planetary boundaries] concept, we thought it was worthwhile pointing out.»

Since we're rapidly approaching planetary boundaries, our study should indeed draw the attention of decision - makers of all levels to the potential of integrated crop water management.»

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.

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.

Finds that the intensified deficit in precipitation is accompanied by increased downward shortwave radiation flux, tropospheric subsidence, enhanced evaporative fraction, and elevated planetary boundary layer height, all of which can lead to surface drying

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

«We will be working with data providers and conservation organizations to ensure that the number of gold - standard data sets increases and the data are integrated with ongoing efforts around the world,» said Piero Visconti, KR Planetary Boundary Analyst at UNEP - WCMC.

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».

«Our social nature plus ability to choose doesn't change planetary boundaries, but it changes how quickly we get there and the size and direction of the steps we take,» said Bennett.

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

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).

Meeting future food needs within planetary boundaries will require concerted action throughout the food system, including improvements in farming systems, shifts in diets and waste, and system - wide transformations (Foley et al 2011, West et al 2014, Garnett 2014, Steffenet al 2015).