Johan Rockström - SDG Academy Library

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Welcome to the Anthropocene

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There 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…

The Quadruple Squeeze

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The Quadruple Squeeze

From SDG Academy

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The planetary squeeze, or the driving forces that explain why we’ve ended up with rising environmental risks, originate from four different areas: population…

Justification for Planetary Boundary Selection

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Justification for Planetary Boundary Selection

From SDG Academy

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A 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…

The Great Acceleration

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The Great Acceleration

From SDG Academy

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We 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…

Quantification of the Nine Planetary Boundaries

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Quantification of the Nine Planetary Boundaries

From SDG Academy

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Challenges arise when trying to define quantitatively the boundary position for each global process. First, a control variable is identified as a parameter that…

Introducing the Planetary Boundaries Framework

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Introducing the Planetary Boundaries Framework

From SDG Academy

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This chapter explores the origins of the planetary boundaries, which comes from the recognition that we’ve entered the Anthropocene and that the exponential…

Energy: A Promising Pathway

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Energy: A Promising Pathway

From SDG Academy

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To 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…

Development of the Sustainable Development Goals

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Development of the Sustainable Development Goals

From SDG Academy

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How 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…

Biodiversity Loss

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Biodiversity Loss

From SDG Academy

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Biodiversity is an important planetary boundary because, without the living species, we would not have biomass, carbon sequestration, rainfall, or the regulation of the…

Tipping Points

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Tipping Points

From SDG Academy

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Nature doesn’t respond in incremental and linear ways, but has several distinctly different states that are separated by thresholds, or tipping points. Feedback…

Synthesis and Progress on Planetary Boundaries

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Synthesis and Progress on Planetary Boundaries

From SDG Academy

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The 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…

Climate Change as a Planetary Boundary

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Climate Change as a Planetary Boundary

From SDG Academy

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This lecture provides evidence for why climate change is a planetary boundary, based on temperature changes since the Industrial Revolution. We have already seen 1…

Reflection on Taking Action in the Anthropocene

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Reflection on Taking Action in the Anthropocene

From SDG Academy

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This video is a collection of perspectives regarding tipping points and planetary boundaries. This course on planetary boundaries and human opportunities is the first…

Teleconnections and Inconvenient Feedbacks

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Teleconnections and Inconvenient Feedbacks

From SDG Academy

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In 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…

Humanity's Period of Grace: The Holocene

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Humanity's Period of Grace: The Holocene

From SDG Academy

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What 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…

Existing Structures of Global Governance

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Existing Structures of Global Governance

From SDG Academy

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This 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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