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| 554 554 playsThere is rising scientific evidence that humanity has now entered a new era that is defined as the Anthropocene, in which humanity is shaping the entire biosphere in a… -
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| 260 260 playsThe planetary squeeze, or the driving forces that explain why we’ve ended up with rising environmental risks, originate from four different areas: population… -
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| 285 285 playsA planetary boundary process is an environmental process that is part of the Earth's regulatory system, helping it to remain in our current desired state of the… -
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| 95 95 playsWe are now a big world on a small planet. The Great Acceleration starts with the expansion of human exploitation of the world, seen in urbanization, land-use… -
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| 65 65 playsChallenges arise when trying to define quantitatively the boundary position for each global process. First, a control variable is identified as a parameter that… -
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| 104 104 playsThis chapter explores the origins of the planetary boundaries, which comes from the recognition that we’ve entered the Anthropocene and that the exponential… -
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| 86 86 playsTo develop within a safe operating space, there must be a global transition to a renewable energy system, as growing economies are projected to have growing energy use… -
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| 72 72 playsHow can the world of policy and science respond to the latest advancements in science? In the Anthropocene, we can no longer avoid catastrophic tipping points; we need a… -
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| 61 61 playsNature doesn’t respond in incremental and linear ways, but has several distinctly different states that are separated by thresholds, or tipping points. Feedback… -
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| 48 48 playsBiodiversity is an important planetary boundary because, without the living species, we would not have biomass, carbon sequestration, rainfall, or the regulation of the… -
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| 17 17 playsThis lecture provides evidence for why climate change is a planetary boundary, based on temperature changes since the Industrial Revolution. We have already seen 1… -
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| 36 36 playsThis video is a collection of perspectives regarding tipping points and planetary boundaries. This course on planetary boundaries and human opportunities is the first… -
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| 27 27 playsWhat is the desired state of planet Earth? We use different "cups" to show the various stable states that the ecosystem can reside in. We have been in the… -
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| 41 41 playsIn the Anthropocene, we are entering a realm where interconnectedness translates into teleconnections, in which changes in one part of the world impact other parts of… -
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| 52 52 playsThis chapter is about global governance and structures to deal with complex global environmental problems. Governance is a set of complex interactions between state and… -
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| 33 33 playsThe planetary boundaries framework is built on our understanding of the pressures of the Earth system, along with the recognition that if we push them too far, we risk…