Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet

Will Steffen1,2, Katherine Richardson3, Johan Rockström2, Sarah Cornell2, Ingo Fetzer2, Elena M. Bennett4, Reinette Biggs5,2, Stephen R. Carpenter6, W. de Vries7, Cynthia A. de Wit8, Carl Folke9,2, Dieter Gerten10, Jens Heinke11,12,10, Georgina M. Mace13, Linn Persson14, V. Ramanathan15,16, Belinda Reyers17,2, Sverker Sörlin18
1Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
2Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, 10691, Stockholm, Sweden
3Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, University of Copenhagen, Natural History Museum of Denmark, Universitetsparken 15, Building 3, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
4Department of Natural Resource Sciences and McGill School of Environment, McGill University, 21, 111 Lakeshore Road, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC H9X 3V9, Canada.
5Centre for Studies in Complexity, Stellenbosch University, Private Bag X1, Stellenbosch 7602, South Africa.
6Center for Limnology, University of Wisconsin, 680 North Park Street, Madison, WI 53706, USA
7Environmental Systems Analysis group, Wageningen University, P.O. Box 47, 6700 AA Wageningen, Netherlands
8Department of Environmental Science and Analytical Chemistry, Stockholm University, 10691, Stockholm, Sweden
9Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, SE-10405 Stockholm, Sweden
10Research Domain Earth System Analysis, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Telegraphenberg A62, 14473 Potsdam, Germany.
11CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization), St. Lucia, QLD 4067, Australia.
12International Livestock Research Institute, P.O. Box 30709, Nairobi, 00100, Kenya
13Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research (CBER), Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK.
14Stockholm Environment Institute, Linnégatan 87D, SE-10451 Stockholm, Sweden.
15Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego, 8622 Kennel Way, La Jolla, CA 92037 USA.
16TERI (The Energy and Resources Institute) University, 10 Institutional Area, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi, Delhi 110070, India.
17Natural Resources and the Environment, CSIR, P.O. Box 320, Stellenbosch 7599, South Africa
18Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, SE-10044 Stockholm, Sweden.

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Crossing the boundaries in global sustainability The planetary boundary (PB) concept, introduced in 2009, aimed to define the environmental limits within which humanity can safely operate. This approach has proved influential in global sustainability policy development. Steffen et al. provide an updated and extended analysis of the PB framework. Of the original nine proposed boundaries, they identify three (including climate change) that might push the Earth system into a new state if crossed and that also have a pervasive influence on the remaining boundaries. They also develop the PB framework so that it can be applied usefully in a regional context. Science , this issue 10.1126/science.1259855

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