Sentences with phrase «safe operating space for»

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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And finally, my own disclosure: I also operate on a first name basis publicly, out of a desire to preserve a safe space for me and for others.

«We have found a way of defining a «safe space» for communities to consume resources and operate within — particularly with regard to poor rural areas in developing nations.

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.

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.

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 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.

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).

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