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| − | '''Planetary Boundaries''' | + | The concept of '''Planetary Boundaries''' posits that Earth system processes critical for maintaining the stable state of the Holocene, such as biosphere integrity, land-use change and climate change may be being influenced by human activity. |
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| + | Although not all these processes have definable single thresholds, crossing the boundaries increases the risk of large-scale, potentially irreversible, environmental changes <ref>Rockström et al. 2009; Steffen et al. 2015</ref>. | ||
== References == | == References == | ||
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Definition
The concept of Planetary Boundaries posits that Earth system processes critical for maintaining the stable state of the Holocene, such as biosphere integrity, land-use change and climate change may be being influenced by human activity.
Although not all these processes have definable single thresholds, crossing the boundaries increases the risk of large-scale, potentially irreversible, environmental changes [1].
References
- ↑ Rockström et al. 2009; Steffen et al. 2015
