Centre researchers including Sarah Cornell, Tiina Häyhä, Ingo Fetzer, Steve Lade, Andrea Downing, Jonathan Donges, and Avit Bhowmik have all been actively involved in advancing these frontier areas, and building collaborative research links among a growing international community of scientists. Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planetĬlick here to access figures and data for the updated planetary boundaries frameworkįrom 2017, Johan Rockström’s ERC Advanced Grant Earth Resilience in the Anthropocene is funding an exciting new phase in this work. It stated that society’s activities have pushed climate change, biodiversity loss, shifts in nutrient cycles (nitrogen and phosphorus), and land use beyond the boundaries into unprecedented territory. Most recent update of the framework, published in Science.

Nature: a special section and feature article published in Nature Ecology & Society: Planetary Boundaries: Exploring the Safe Operating Space for Humanity

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