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Planetary boundaries: Keep off the grass

Author(s): Bass S

Published: October, 2009

Publisher: Nature Reports Climate Change

DOI: 10.1038/climate.2009.94

Tags: Earth System Management

URL: http://www.nature.com/climate/2009/0910/full/climate.2009.94.html

Abstract: Johan Rockström and colleagues' description of planetary boundaries (Nature 461, 472–475; 2009) is a sound idea. We need to know how to live within the unusually stable conditions of our present Holocene period and not do anything that causes irreversible environmental change. Planetary boundaries build on a long and respectable tradition of research and thinking on ecological limits, such as the 'limits to growth' thesis of 1972, as well as more recent developments, such as the idea of the ecological footprint and the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment — though Rockström and colleagues would have done well to acknowledge these foundations.


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