The two additional planetary boundaries for which we have not yet been able to determine a boundary level are chemical pollution and atmospheric aerosol loading. We estimate that humanity has already transgressed three planetary boundaries: for climate change, rate of biodiversity loss, and changes ...
With the Great Acceleration (McNeill/Engelke 2016) of human development reaching limits to growth and planetary boundaries they turn into disruptive forces that can undermine the existential living conditions of humanity, as we are currently experiencing in the multicrises world, challenging the current ...
Speciesism in Biology and Culture: How Human Exceptionalism is Pushing Planetary BoundariesThis open access book explores a wide-ranging discussion about the sociopolitical, cultural, and scientific ramifications of speciesism and world views that derive from it. In this light, it integrates subjects ...
“Planetary sustainability is a security issue because staying within planetary boundaries gives us stable societies, food security, water security and reduces conflicts,” says Rockström. “Placing planetary boundaries at the UN Security Council positions sustainability, climate, biodiversity, water, ...
But operating in the developed world requires maps indicating zoning laws, utility services, and property boundaries. Likewise, human civilization can no longer “wing it” by developing arbitrary constructs without careful adherence to biophysical constraints. 7. Developing a PLAN for the future The ...
This trend is clear in recent studies exploring planetary-scale tipping points (Lenton and Williams, 2013) or the existence of planetary-scale “boundaries” as safe operating limits for civilization (Rockstrom, 2009). In this way sustainability science and the theoretical perspective it takes on ...
There are many features of global chemical contamination we do not fully under- stand: its geographic extent, its pathways through ecosystems, its full impacts on human health, to what extent these exposures account for rising trends in some diseases, where are the boundaries we should not cross...
This happens due to drastically diminished exchange of the trapped wave action (energy) between mid- and tropical, and sub-polar and polar latitudes caused by a strong reflection of these waves at the lateral (meridional) boundaries of the waveguides18. The occurrence of the above-mentioned ...
Interior structure models aim at calculating (1) the volumes and masses of major chemical reservoirs that contribute to the bulk composition; (2) the depths to chemical and rheological discontinuities and mineral phase boundaries; and (3) depth variations of pressure, temperature, density, and ...
2.3. Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives To explore the challenges for business-level application of the PB framework, we focus on four of the boundaries: climate change, freshwater use, biosphere integrity and chemicals and other novel entities. These categories exemplify a range of issues in their ...