Reconnecting to the Biosphere
Carl Folke,Carl Folke,Åsa Jansson,Åsa Jansson,Johan Rockström,Johan Rockström,Per Olsson,Stephen R. Carpenter,F. Stuart Chapin,Anne-Sophie Crépin,Anne-Sophie Crépin,Gretchen C. Daily,Kjell Danell,Jonas Ebbesson,Thomas Elmqvist,Victor Galaz,Fredrik Moberg,Måns Nilsson,Henrik Österblom,Elinor Ostrom,Elinor Ostrom,Åsa Persson,Åsa Persson,Garry D. Peterson,Stephen Polasky,Stephen Polasky,Will Steffen,Will Steffen,Brian Walker,Brian Walker,Brian Walker,Frances Westley +31 more
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It is suggested that the Millennium Development Goals need to be reframed in such a planetary stewardship context combined with a call for a new social contract on global sustainability.Abstract:
Humanity has emerged as a major force in the operation of the biosphere, with a significant imprint on the Earth System, challenging social–ecological resilience. This new situation calls for a fundamental shift in perspectives, world views, and institutions. Human development and progress must be reconnected to the capacity of the biosphere and essential ecosystem services to be sustained. Governance challenges include a highly interconnected and faster world, cascading social–ecological interactions and planetary boundaries that create vulnerabilities but also opportunities for social–ecological change and transformation. Tipping points and thresholds highlight the importance of understanding and managing resilience. New modes of flexible governance are emerging. A central challenge is to reconnect these efforts to the changing preconditions for societal development as active stewards of the Earth System. We suggest that the Millennium Development Goals need to be reframed in such a planetary stewardship context combined with a call for a new social contract on global sustainability. The ongoing mind shift in human relations with Earth and its boundaries provides exciting opportunities for societal development in collaboration with the biosphere—a global sustainability agenda for humanity.read more
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Approaching a state shift in Earth’s biosphere
Anthony D. Barnosky,Elizabeth A. Hadly,Jordi Bascompte,Eric L. Berlow,James H. Brown,Mikael Fortelius,Wayne M. Getz,John Harte,Alan Hastings,Pablo A. Marquet,Neo D. Martinez,Arne Ø. Mooers,Peter D. Roopnarine,Geerat J. Vermeij,John W. Williams,Rosemary G. Gillespie,Justin Kitzes,Charles R. Marshall,Nicholas J. Matzke,David P. Mindell,Eloy Revilla,Adam B. Smith +21 more
TL;DR: Evidence that the global ecosystem as a whole is approaching a planetary-scale critical transition as a result of human influence is reviewed, highlighting the need to improve biological forecasting by detecting early warning signs of critical transitions.
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The Anthropocene: From Global Change to Planetary Stewardship
Will Steffen,Will Steffen,Åsa Persson,Åsa Persson,Lisa Deutsch,Jan Zalasiewicz,Mark Williams,Katherine Richardson,Carole L. Crumley,Paul J. Crutzen,Carl Folke,Carl Folke,Line Gordon,Mario J. Molina,Veerabhadran Ramanathan,Johan Rockström,Johan Rockström,Marten Scheffer,Hans Joachim Schellnhuber,Uno Svedin +19 more
TL;DR: The Anthropocene is a reminder that the Holocene, during which complex human societies have developed, has been a stable, accommodating environment and is the only state of the Earth System that the authors know for sure can support contemporary society.
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Uncovering ecosystem service bundles through social preferences.
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TL;DR: It is concluded that socio-cultural preferences toward ecosystem services can serve as a tool to identify relevant services for people, the factors underlying these social preferences, and emerging ecosystem service bundles and trade-offs.
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Tipping Toward Sustainability: Emerging Pathways of Transformation
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TL;DR: The central question is whether social and technical innovations can reverse the trends that are challenging critical thresholds and creating tipping points in the earth system, and if not, what conditions are necessary to escape the current lock-in.
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Connecting Diverse Knowledge Systems for Enhanced Ecosystem Governance: The Multiple Evidence Base Approach
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