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From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
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… -
From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
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… -
From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
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… -
From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
This chapter explores the origins of the planetary boundaries, which comes from the recognition that we’ve entered the Anthropocene and that the exponential… -
From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
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… -
From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
Nature doesn’t respond in incremental and linear ways, but has several distinctly different states that are separated by thresholds, or tipping points. Feedback… -
From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
Biodiversity is an important planetary boundary because, without the living species, we would not have biomass, carbon sequestration, rainfall, or the regulation of the… -
From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
The planetary squeeze, or the driving forces that explain why we’ve ended up with rising environmental risks, originate from four different areas: population… -
From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
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… -
From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
Challenges arise when trying to define quantitatively the boundary position for each global process. First, a control variable is identified as a parameter that… -
From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
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… -
From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
This video is a collection of perspectives regarding tipping points and planetary boundaries. -
From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
This chapter goes through two of the slow variables constituting the planetary boundaries; land and water use. Over the last 150 years, we have transformed almost 40% of… -
From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
Science indicates that although the Holocene is our desired state, we have moved into the Anthropocene. Human influence has constituted a force of change that is, in… -
From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
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… -
From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
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…