Planetary Boundaries

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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

  1. Rockström et al. 2009; Steffen et al. 2015