Sentences with phrase «planetary boundaries framework»

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.

«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.

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

Plus, Will Steffen discusses the processes that define the planetary boundaries framework, and Jenna Jambeck examines the factors influencing how much plastic debris a nation contributes to the ocean.

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.

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

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

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).

Here the planetary boundaries framework reaches its logical conclusion with a political scenario that is as unlikely as it is unpalatable.

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.

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.

They claim the Planetary Boundaries framework translates to an «ultimate global authority to rule over humanity».

This brief discusses how the planetary boundaries framework can be used to inform EU policy - making

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.

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.

Sandin, G., Peters, G. M. & Svanström, M. Using the planetary boundaries framework for setting impact - reduction targets in LCA contexts.

The first is the planetary boundaries framework, which identifies nine boundaries related to critical Earth - system processes3.

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 failure to account for different environments points to the main problem with the planetary boundaries framework: it only measures environmental change as negative — as progression toward supposed biophysical boundaries — and never as positive, either for humans (e.g., more food) or environments (e.g., higher yields resulting in less deforestation).