Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet

By Will Steffen, Katherine Richardson, J. Rockström, Sarah E. Cornell, Ingo Fetzer, E. Bennett, Reinette Biggs, Stephen R. Carpenter, Wim de Vries, C. D. de Wit and 8 more. Science, 2015

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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Three frames for innovation policy: R&D, systems of innovation and transformative change (2018, background): “Innovation contributes massively to the current resource-intensive, wasteful and fossil fuelbased paradigm of mass production and mass consumption (Meadows et al., 2004; Bardi, 2011; Steffen et al., 2015).”
Quantitative assessment of agricultural sustainability reveals divergent priorities among nations (2021, neutral): “10,36,37 Consequently, the deﬁnitions of these indicators and their thresholds align with the planetary boundary literature with some modiﬁcations to permit country-level assessments and cross-country comparisons (Notes S3–S5).”
Innovation Systems for Transformations towards Sustainability? Taking the Normative Dimension Seriously (2017, positive): “In fact, Rockström and colleagues [4,5] claim that the Earth system has already crossed several thresholds and thus transcended what they term planetary boundaries, beyond which safe operating space for humanity can no longer be guaranteed and sustainability is severely compromised (see also [6]).”
Investment Needs to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals Understanding the Billions and Trillions (2015, methodology): “A second line of inquiry needs to focus on integrated modeling of sector interactions and economy-wide effects at the global and regional level, particularly to understand the implications of planetary boundaries (Steffen et al. 2015) on sustainable development.”
A relational turn for sustainability science? Relational thinking, leverage points and transformations (2020, background): “We face a daunting array of sustainability challenges, where crises of biodiversity loss, climate change and food insecurity deepen, and inequality, poverty and political polarization abound (Steffen et al. 2015; Hamann et al. 2018; Leach et al. 2018).”
Food as Commons or Commodity? Exploring the Links between Normative Valuations and Agency in Food Transition (2017, background): “and planetary life support systems, limits that we have already surpassed for four out of nine global thresholds [19].”
Pathways to achieve a set of ambitious global sustainability objectives by 2050: Explorations using the IMAGE integrated assessment model (2015, neutral): “Impacts on the nitrogen balance Another major environmental problem related to the sustainable development issues discussed so far is the imbalance in the global nitrogen cycle (Bouwman et al., 2009; Rockström et al., 2009; Steffen et al., 2015).”
Modelling complex systems of heterogeneous agents to better design sustainability transitions policy (2015, background): “…those likely to be selected for the recently adopted Sustainable Development Goals), to determine ranges of policy options that enable society to avoid exceeding planetary boundaries (Rockström et al., 2009, Steffen et al., 2015) while ensuring continued human development globally (OXFAM, 2012).”