Planetary boundaries
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Planetary boundaries is a concept involving Earth system processes which contain environmental boundaries, proposed in 2009 by a group of Earth system and environmental scientists led by Johan Rockström from the Stockholm Resilience Centre and Will Steffen from the Australian National University. The group wanted to define a "safe operating space for humanity" for the international community, including governments at all levels, international organizations, civil society, the scientific community and the private sector, as a precondition for sustainable development. The framework is based on scientific evidence that human actions since the Industrial Revolution have become the main driver of global environmental change.
See also
- Carbon cycle re-balancing
- Ecological footprint
- Gaia hypothesis
- Global catastrophic risk
- Global change
- Great Transition
- Holocene extinction
- Human impact on the nitrogen cycle
- Planetary health
- Planetary management
- Steady-state economy
- The Limits to Growth