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Bert Bolin
Researcher at Stockholm University
Publications - 68
Citations - 10257
Bert Bolin is an academic researcher from Stockholm University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Climate change & Atmosphere. The author has an hindex of 31, co-authored 68 publications receiving 9637 citations. Previous affiliations of Bert Bolin include Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
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Economic Growth, Carrying Capacity, and the Environment
Kenneth J. Arrow,Bert Bolin,Robert Costanza,Partha Dasgupta,Carl Folke,C. S. Holling,Bengt Owe Jansson,Simon A. Levin,Karl-Göran Mäler,Charles Perrings,David Pimentel +10 more
TL;DR: The relation between economic growth and environmental quality, and the link between economic activity and the carrying capacity and resilience of the environment are discussed.
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Economic growth, carrying capacity, and the environment
Kenneth J. Arrow,Bert Bolin,Robert Costanza,Partha Dasgupta,Carl Folke,C. S. Holling,Bengt Owe Jansson,Simon A. Levin,Karl-Göran Mäler,Charles Perrings,David Pimentel +10 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the relation between economic growth and environmental quality, and the link between economic activity and the carrying capacity and resilience of the environment (e.g., water quality).
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The Carbon Cycle
TL;DR: An overview of the processes that determine the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere can be found in this article, where the authors consider the transfer of CO2 between the major reservoirs of carbon, i.e. the atmosphere, the soil, terrestrial plants, the oceans and its marine life and the ocean sediments.
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Resilience in natural and socioeconomic systems
Simon A. Levin,Scott Barrett,Sara Aniyar,William J. Baumol,Christopher Bliss,Bert Bolin,Partha Dasgupta,Paul R. Ehrlich,Carl Folke,Ing-Marie Gren,C. S. Holling,Ann-Mari Jansson,Bengt-Owe Jansson,Karl-Göran Mäler,Dan Martin,Charles Perrings,Eytan Sheshinski +16 more
TL;DR: It is difficult to detect strong signals of change early enough to motivate effective solutions, or to develop scientific consensus on a time scale rapid enough to allow effective solution, and such signals are likely to be displaced in space or sector from the source so that the motivation for action is small.