Sentences with phrase «safe operating space»

So I was naturally drawn to a research effort that surfaced in 2009 defining a «safe operating space for humanity» by estimating a set of nine «planetary boundaries» for vital - sign - style parameters like levels of greenhouse gases, flows of nitrogen and phosphorus and loss of biodiversity.

Based on equal - per - capita allocation of the global safe operating space, the EU does not appear to be «living within the limits of our planet»; it significantly exceeds its per capita «fair share» with respect to the climate change and biogeochemical flows (nitrogen and phosphorus flows) boundaries.

Translating the Planetary Boundaries to EU level involves normative (political) decisions about how to apportion responsibilities and fairly allocate the global safe operating space.

A team of 30 scientists from across the globe has put together a list of nine environmental processes that must remain within specific limits they say, or what they call «the safe operating space within which humankind can exist on Earth» will cease to be safe.

At the same time any effort to identify a safe operating space for humanity must grapple with the fact that humans, on the whole, have never been better off — whether the metric be population, wealth or some other measure.

This week, a major report concludes that food production is too close to the limits of a «safe operating space» defined by how much we need, how much we can produce, and its impact on the climate.

Professor John Dearing says: «You could think of our «safe operating space» as the hole in a doughnut, with everything operating in the middle maintaining a relatively healthy balance.

By combining improved scientific understanding of ES functioning with the precautionary principle, the PB framework identifies levels of anthropogenic perturbations below which the risk of destabilization of the ES is likely to remain low — a «safe operating space» for global societal development.

Nevertheless, by identifying a safe operating space for humanity on Earth, the PB framework can make a valuable contribution to decision - makers in charting desirable courses for societal development.

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 green zone is the safe operating space, the yellow represents the zone of uncertainty (increasing risk), and the red is a high - risk zone.

The loss is due to changes in land use and puts levels of biodiversity beyond the «safe limit» recently proposed by the planetary boundaries — an international framework that defines a safe operating space for humanity.

Planetary boundaries: Exploring the safe operating space for humanity.

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».

I've been tracking various reactions to the updated assessment of «planetary boundaries» — nine physical or biological parameters that define «a safe operating space for humanity.»

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.

The European Space Agency in Paris hosted the book launch of «SOS TREATY (The Safe Operating Space Treaty)-- A new approach to managing our use of the Earth System» (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016) on Oct. 7.

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.

In The Safe Operating Space Treaty: A New Approach to Managing Our Use of the Earth System.

The green zone is the safe operating space, the yellow represents the zone of uncertainty (increasing risk), and the red is a high - risk zone.

By combining improved scientific understanding of ES functioning with the precautionary principle, the PB framework identifies levels of anthropogenic perturbations below which the risk of destabilization of the ES is likely to remain low — a «safe operating space» for global societal development.

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.

Nevertheless, by identifying a safe operating space for humanity on Earth, the PB framework can make a valuable contribution to decision - makers in charting desirable courses for societal development.

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.

In 2009, 29 scientists published a paper in the journal Nature titled «A Safe Operating Space for Humanity.»

Häyhä, T., Lucas, P. L., van Vuuren, D. P., Cornell, S. E. & Hoff, H. From planetary boundaries to national fair shares of the global safe operating space — how can the scales be bridged?

The boundaries jointly define a «safe operating space», within which it is argued the relatively stable conditions of the Holocene may be maintained4.

Some authors see in these trends threats not just to other species but also to the «safe operating space» for humanity as the Earth nears or exceeds «planetary boundaries» (Rockström et al. 2009).