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660 playsThere 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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300 playsThe 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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407 playsProfessor 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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319 playsA 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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199 playsThis 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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87 playsThis chapter explains the concern about atmospheric aerosols, which are liquid droplets or particles that are suspended in the atmosphere. They absorb and reflect light,… -
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143 playsWe 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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120 playsThis 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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82 playsThis 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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77 playsChallenges 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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117 playsThis 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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173 playsResilience has a dual nature, of thinking about sustaining what we want to sustain, AND building the capacity to adapt or transform toward something better. We live in a… -
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87 playsTo 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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65 playsBiodiversity 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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79 playsHow 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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63 playsNature doesn’t respond in incremental and linear ways, but has several distinctly different states that are separated by thresholds, or tipping points. Feedback…