A safe operating space for humanity

Johan Rockström, Will Steffen, Kevin Noone, Åsa Persson, F. Stuart Chapin, Eric F. Lambin, Timothy M. Lenton, Marten Scheffer, Carl Folke, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Björn Nykvist, Cynthia A. de Wit, Terry Hughes, Sander van der Leeuw, Henning Rodhe, Sverker Sörlin, Peter K. Snyder, Robert Costanza, Uno Svedin, Malin Falkenmark, Louise Karlberg, Robert W. Corell, Victoria J. Fabry, James Hansen, Brian Walker, Diana Liverman, Katherine Richardson, Paul Crutzen and Jonathan A. Foley
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Johan Rockström: Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University
Will Steffen: Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University
Kevin Noone: Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University
Åsa Persson: Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University
F. Stuart Chapin: Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Eric F. Lambin: Université Catholique de Louvainé
Timothy M. Lenton: School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia
Marten Scheffer: Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management Group, Wageningen University
Carl Folke: Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University
Hans Joachim Schellnhuber: Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Björn Nykvist: Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University
Cynthia A. de Wit: Stockholm University
Terry Hughes: ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University
Sander van der Leeuw: School of Human Evolution & Social Change, Arizona State University
Henning Rodhe: Stockholm University
Sverker Sörlin: Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University
Peter K. Snyder: Water, and Climate, University of Minnesota
Robert Costanza: Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University
Uno Svedin: Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University
Malin Falkenmark: Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University
Louise Karlberg: Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University
Robert W. Corell: The H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment
Victoria J. Fabry: California State University San Marcos
James Hansen: NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Brian Walker: Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University
Diana Liverman: Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford
Katherine Richardson: The Faculty for Natural Sciences
Paul Crutzen: Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
Jonathan A. Foley: Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota

Nature, 2009, vol. 461, issue 7263, 472-475

Abstract: Identifying and quantifying planetary boundaries that must not be transgressed could help prevent human activities from causing unacceptable environmental change, argue Johan Rockström and colleagues.

Date: 2009
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