Sentences with phrase «safe planetary boundary»
A vast number of scientists, engineers, and visionary businessmen are boldly designing a future that is based on low - impact energy pathways and living within safe planetary boundaries; a future in which substantial health gains can be achieved by eliminating fossil - fuel pollution; and a future in which we strive to hand over a liveable planet to posterity.
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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.
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).
And all that acceleration (mostly since 1950, as I wrote yesterday) has pushed us out of four safe zones, according to the 18 authors of the updated assessment of environmental boundaries, published online today by the journal Science here: «Planetary Boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planboundaries, published online today by the journal Science here: «Planetary Boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planBoundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet.»
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.
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.
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.
An international team of 18 experts, expanding on a 2009 report about «planetary boundaries» for safe human use, also [continue reading...]
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?
Nobel laureates: «we are transgressing planetary boundaries that have kept civilization safe for the past 10,000 years»
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).