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Towards circular plastics within planetary boundaries
The rapid growth of plastics production exacerbated the triple planetary crisis of habitat loss, plastic pollution and greenhouse gas (GHG)...
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Knowledge map** of planetary boundaries based on bibliometrics analysis
The planetary boundaries concept has triggered a vast amount of pure and applied scientific research, as well as policy and governance activities...
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Human development at the cost of the environment?—an application of planetary pressures–adjusted human development index in the lens of planetary boundaries
The human development index (HDI) was an important step toward a more human-oriented assessment of socioeconomic prosperity. Nevertheless, at the...
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Earth system justice needed to identify and live within Earth system boundaries
Living within planetary limits requires attention to justice as biophysical boundaries are not inherently just. Through collaboration between natural...
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Harnessing human and machine intelligence for planetary-level climate action
The ongoing global race for bigger and better artificial intelligence (AI) systems is expected to have a profound societal and environmental impact...
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Physical and virtual water transfers in China and their implication for water planetary boundary
China is an extremely water-scarce country with an uneven distribution of regional water resources. We define two absolute sustainability indicators,...
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Understanding the Complementarities of Environmental Footprints and Planetary Boundaries
While in recent years both environmental footprints and planetary boundaries have gained tremendous popularity throughout the ecological and...
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Translating Earth system boundaries for cities and businesses
Operating within safe and just Earth system boundaries requires mobilizing key actors across scale to set targets and take actions accordingly....
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Life cycle assessment applying planetary and regional boundaries to the process level: a model case study
PurposeThe planetary boundaries framework contains regional boundaries in addition to global boundaries. Geographically resolved methods to assess...
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Unveiling global sustainability boundaries: exploring inner dimensions of human critical determinants for sustainability
Greater global awareness and action to implement sustainable development are underway. However, global progress towards sustainability has been slow....
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Translating the Planetary Boundaries into Planetary Quotas
There is a need to translate the Planetary Boundaries into a new set of global limits that are in Pressure indicators (rather than States or...
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Resource efficiency analysis through planetary boundary-based life cycle assessment: a case study of sugarcane in Pakistan
PurposeExtensive agriculture activities for crop production have led to increasing environmental impacts that threaten to exceed environmentally safe...
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Benchmarking the Carbon, Water, and Land Footprints Against Allocated Planetary Boundaries
Growing scientific evidence for the indispensable role of environmental sustainability in sustainable development calls for appropriate frameworks...
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Regional Criticism: A Passive Resistance to Planetary Urbanization
While the theory of Planetary Urbanization is valuable in understanding the realities of widespread urbanization and capital expansion, it also...
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The re-imagining of a framework for agricultural land use: A pathway for integrating agricultural practices into ecosystem services, planetary boundaries and sustainable development goals
This paper reflects on the legacy of the Ambio papers by Sombroek et al. (1993), Turner et al. (1994), and Brussaard et al. (1997) on the study of...
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Living within the safe and just Earth system boundaries for blue water
Safe and just Earth system boundaries (ESBs) for surface water and groundwater (blue water) have been defined for sustainable water management in the...
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Human impacts on planetary boundaries amplified by Earth system interactions
The planetary boundary framework presents a ‘planetary dashboard’ of humanity’s globally aggregated performance on a set of environmental issues that...
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The Role of Education and Research in Human and Planetary Health
This chapter outlines the role of education and research in fostering human and planetary health and describes the example of the project...
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Hand hygiene with hand sanitizer versus handwashing: what are the planetary health consequences?
In order to reduce the transmission of pathogens, and COVID-19, WHO and NHS England recommend hand washing (HW) and/or the use of hand sanitizer...
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Feeding ten billion people is possible within four terrestrial planetary boundaries
Global agriculture puts heavy pressure on planetary boundaries, posing the challenge to achieve future food security without compromising Earth...
