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From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
Professor Carl Folke discusses a social-ecological system approach, in which people are looked at as being part of, and changing, the planet, in addition to being… -
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
This chapter is about the challenges and opportunities that urban centers face. Urban centers are expanding beyond traditional urban boundaries in a process called urban… -
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
This chapter is about technology in the Anthropocene. Professor Galaz begins with an example of the Titi money from the Amazon, which is used to promote conservation… -
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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… -
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
This chapter discusses the social foundations for the planetary boundaries. This goes back to the Brundtland Report of 1987, which defined sustainability as a… -
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
There are many different schools and approaches on how to reform global environmental governance. Deep institutional reform builds on the idea that, if you manage to… -
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
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
Novel entities refer to the release of chemical pollution into the environment, which signals a focus on the role of human-caused changes that fundamentally change… -
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
The planetary squeeze, or the driving forces that explain why we’ve ended up with rising environmental risks, originate from four different areas: population…