Planetary Boundaries and Human Opportunities

Can our planet continue to support the current scope of human activity?

These videos are from the SDG Academy course Planetary Boundaries and Human Opportunities, first launched in 2014 and led by Johan Rockström, originator of the planetary boundaries framework.

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Social-Ecological Systems

Social-Ecological Systems

From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019

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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…
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Cities: Challenges and Opportunities

Cities: Challenges and Opportunities

From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019

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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…
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Welcome to the Anthropocene

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

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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The Role and Risks of Technology in the…

The Role and Risks of Technology in the Anthropocene

From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019

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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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Energy: A Promising Pathway

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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Social Foundations for Planetary Boundaries

Social Foundations for Planetary Boundaries

From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019

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This chapter discusses the social foundations for the planetary boundaries. This goes back to the Brundtland Report of 1987, which defined sustainability as a…
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Justification for Planetary Boundary Selection

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

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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New and Emerging Perspectives on Global Governance

New and Emerging Perspectives on Global Governance

From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019

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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…
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The Great Acceleration

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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Quantification of the Nine Planetary Boundaries

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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Tipping Points

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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Novel Entities

Novel Entities

From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019

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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…
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Teleconnections and Inconvenient Feedbacks

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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Biodiversity Loss

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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