We provide a systemic overview of the current situation where people and nature are dynamically intertwined and embedded in the biosphere, placing shocks and extreme events as part of this dynamic; humanity has become the major force in shaping the future of the Earth system as a whole; and ...
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Our Future in the Anthropocene Biosphere: Global sustainability and resilient societies The corona pandemic has exposed the interconnected, tightly coupled and vulnerable globalised world. This White Paper sets the scientific stage for understanding and responding to such crises for global sustainability and...
All design options are evaluated in advance to enhance the sustainability of products and asso- ciated processes along their entire value chains: from resource procurement, the production of precursor and final products, and (multiple) 2 Ecodesign your future – How ecodesign can help the ...
Published by The Club of Rome in Enduring Peace in the Anthropocene, May 2024 A just resolution to the Israel/Palestine conflict requires acknowledging and honoring truths that are seemingly contradictory. Examples from other domains show how this can be accomplished and offer a potential pathway to...
the current perils facing the biosphere, which include relentless habitat destruction, out-of-control climate change, rampant pollution and escalating diseases. Such species will be the "winners" that survive the hazards of the Anthropocene to flourish once again in the future, perhaps hundreds or ...
To all the above parameters, one has to add our ecological overshoot. The ecological overshoot is calculated by the reduction of our ecological footprint as a species from the ecological capacity of the biosphere to sustain us...
future generations. I am not fearful, but hopeful that we may still have time to make an impact on lessening the threats against this planet by spreading the word, changing behaviors, and acting swiftly to interrupt the damage that has already been done, and to halt further destru...
The era we live in now has been termed by scientists as the Anthropocene, in which humans have become the dominant force shaping Earth’s bio-geophysical composition and processes, including climate change and its consequences such as sea level rise, extreme weather events, the effects of plastic...
Our Future in the Anthropocene Biosphere: Global sustainability and resilient societiesThe corona pandemic has exposed the interconnected, tightly coupled and vulnerable globalised world. This White Paper sets the scientific stage for understandindoi:10.2139/ssrn.3671766Folke, Carl...