Sentences with phrase «planetary boundaries experts»

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 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.

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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.

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

The planetary boundaries hypothesis may fall short as a scientific concept, but it excels as a political one, offering experts a way to couch what are really political decisions in the inviolable authority of science.