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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Welcome to the Anthropocene

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…
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The Quadruple Squeeze

The Quadruple Squeeze

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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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Social-Ecological Systems

Social-Ecological Systems

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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

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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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Justification for Planetary Boundary Selection

Justification for Planetary Boundary Selection

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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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Social Foundations for Planetary Boundaries

Social Foundations for Planetary Boundaries

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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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Quantification of the Nine Planetary Boundaries

Quantification of the Nine Planetary Boundaries

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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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Development of the Sustainable Development Goals

Development of the Sustainable Development Goals

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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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Introducing the Planetary Boundaries Framework

Introducing the Planetary Boundaries Framework

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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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Tipping Points

Tipping Points

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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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The Great Acceleration

The Great Acceleration

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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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The Role and Risks of Technology in the…

The Role and Risks of Technology in the Anthropocene

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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

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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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Interference with Global Nitrogen and Phosphorous…

Interference with Global Nitrogen and Phosphorous Cycles

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This chapter discusses human impacts on the global nitrogen and phosphorus cycles that link the living and non-living parts of the Earth system. These chemical…
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Novel Entities

Novel Entities

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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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Biodiversity Loss

Biodiversity Loss

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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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