Sentences with phrase «within planetary boundaries»

An economist by training (Erasmus University Rotterdam), with hands - on experience in sustainable development, her career has been guided by a motivation to ensure dignified living conditions for all of human society within planetary boundaries.

If all people are to lead a good life within planetary boundaries, then our results suggest that provisioning systems must be fundamentally restructured to enable basic needs to be met at a much lower level of resource use.

However, if all people are to lead a good life within planetary boundaries, then the level of resource use associated with meeting basic needs must be dramatically reduced.

«Even under best - case scenario conditions,» Hickel argued, «absolute decoupling of GDP growth from material use is not possible on a global scale,» and certainly is not enough to reduce material use sufficiently to stay within planetary boundaries.

Such a reframing could be a step toward a clearer strategy for keeping within our planetary boundaries for the sake of both humanity and nature.

«I believe people can live within planetary boundaries and continue to get richer and have much greater numbers, maybe up to 9.5 billion people.

NOAH is a grassroots organisation founded in 1969 working for equal access to the Earth's resources for current and future generations staying within planetary boundaries.

A joint program between EAT and WBCSD, Food Reform for Sustainability and Health (FReSH) is designed to accelerate transformational change in global food systems, to reach healthy, enjoyable diets for all, that are produced responsibly within planetary boundaries.

6:57 p.m. Addendum For relevant work with somewhat different conclusions review the presentations from «Intensifying agriculture within planetary boundaries,» a session at the Planet Under Pressure conference in London last March.

There is no reason sustainability need be defined this way because living within planetary boundaries can be achieved well above those thresholds.

Within the planetary boundary layer, in situ instrumentation includes towers, tethered balloons, and surface data collection platforms.

Perlwitz et al. (2001) estimate that this feedback reduces the global dust load by roughly 15 %, as dust radiative forcing reduces the downward mixing of momentum within the planetary boundary layer, the surface wind speed, and thus dust emission (Miller et al., 2004a).

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The planetary boundary (PB) concept, introduced in 2009, aimed to define the environmental limits within which humanity can safely operate.

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.

We find it interesting — and encouraging — that societies and the world community are already developing management tools within several «planetary boundary domains».

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 boundary (PB) concept, introduced in 2009, aimed to define the environmental limits within which humanity can safely operate.

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.