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Welcome to the Anthropocene

From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019

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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…

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Development of the Sustainable Development Goals

From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019

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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…

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Justification for Planetary Boundary Selection

From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019

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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…

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Introducing the Planetary Boundaries Framework

From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019

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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…

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Energy: A Promising Pathway

From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019

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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…

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Tipping Points

From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019

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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…

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Biodiversity Loss

From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019

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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…

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The Quadruple Squeeze

From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019

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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…

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Teleconnections and Inconvenient Feedbacks

From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019

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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…

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Quantification of the Nine Planetary Boundaries

From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019

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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…

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The Great Acceleration

From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019

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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…

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Reflection on Taking Action in the Anthropocene

From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019

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This video is a collection of perspectives regarding tipping points and planetary boundaries.

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Climate Change as a Planetary Boundary

From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019

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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…

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Land and Water Use Change

From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019

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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…

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Existing Structures of Global Governance

From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019

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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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Entering the Anthropocene

From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019

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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…

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