This planetary boundaries framework update finds that six of the nine boundaries are transgressed, suggesting that Earth is now well outside of the safe operating space for humanity. Ocean acidification is close to being breached, while aerosol loading regionally exceeds the boundary. Stratospheric ...
Because the prospects for ecological sustainability hinge on a stabilization and eventual absolute reductions of the global social metabolism to a scale and composition compatible with Planetary Boundaries (Steffen et al., 2015), the potentials for achieving a saturation or even a reduction of stocks ...
Human appropriation of net primary production: patterns trends and planetary boundaries. Annu. Rev. Environ. Res. 39, 363–391, http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-environ-121912-094620 Haberl, H., Erb, K.H., Krausmann, F., Gaube, V., Bondeau, A., Plutzar, C., Gingrich, S., ...
The DSM used in this study (displayed in Figure 2c) was provided by the Institute of Space Sensor Technology and Planetary Exploration, German Aerospace Center (DLR). The data set from 2012 was prepared using the SGM method as in the case of the satellite images, but was generated with ...