He is an internationally recognized scientist on global sustainability issues, where he led the recent development of the new Planetary Boundaries framework for human development in the current era of rapid global change. He is a leading scientist on global water resources, and strategies to build ...
Along with an international team of scientists, he drafted the planetary boundaries framework: a document that defines environmental limits within which humans can continue to thrive on earth. Climate change and threats to biosphere integrity put Holocene-like stability in the most jeopardy, but other...
He is an internationally recognized scientist on global sustainability issues, where he led the recent development of the new Planetary Boundaries framework for human development in the current era of rapid global change. He is a leading scientist on global water resources, and strategies to build ...
planetary boundaries frameworkEarth System scienceclimate emergencyHothouse EarthIn this wide-ranging interview, the well-known Earth System scientist Professor Will Steffen introduces and discusses the influential planetary boundaries (PB) framework, the potential for a Hothouse Earth pathway and the ...
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While this framework has been highly influential, a critical shortcoming for its application in sustainability governance is that it currently fails to represent how impacts related to one of the planetary boundaries affect the status of other planetary boundaries. Here, we surveyed and provisionally ...
where he led the recent development of the new Planetary Boundaries framework for human development in the current era of rapid global change. He is a leading scientist on global water resources, and strategies to build resilience in water scarce regions of the world, with more than 15 years ...
Human pressures have pushed the Earth system deep into the Anthropocene, threatening its stability, resilience and functioning. The Planetary Boundaries (PB) framework emerged against these threats, setting safe levels to the biophysical systems and proc
Planetary Boundaries Abstract This chapter presents a detailed discussion of the Planetary Boundaries. This is a framework, based on science, which identifies nine processes and systems that regulate the stability and resilience of the Earth system and the interactions of land, ocean, atmosphere and ...
Hamid Samandari:How did the planetary boundaries framework evolve, and why is it relevant today? Photo of Johan Rockström speaking. Johan Rockström:The planetary boundaries [PB] framework defines the safe operating space for humanity on Earth. Stay within the safe thresholds of PBs, and ...