Environmental Science - SDG Academy Library

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Welcome to the Anthropocene

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There is rising scientific evidence that humanity has now entered a new era that is defined as the Anthropocene, in which humanity is shaping the entire biosphere in a…

The Quadruple Squeeze

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The Quadruple Squeeze

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The planetary squeeze, or the driving forces that explain why we’ve ended up with rising environmental risks, originate from four different areas: population…

Social-Ecological Systems

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Social-Ecological Systems

From SDG Academy

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Professor Carl Folke discusses a social-ecological system approach, in which people are looked at as being part of, and changing, the planet, in addition to being…

Introduction: The Oceans and Sustainable…

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Introduction: The Oceans and Sustainable…

Introduction: The Oceans and Sustainable Development

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The global ocean connects us all and provides our livelihoods, the oxygen we breathe, and transportation, among other things. The ocean is included in SDG 14. This…

Our Ocean: A Finite Resource

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Our Ocean: A Finite Resource

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The ocean has always sparked human curiosity. In the mid-20th century, people began to realize that there are limits to what humanity should do to our planet before it…

Justification for Planetary Boundary Selection

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Justification for Planetary Boundary Selection

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A planetary boundary process is an environmental process that is part of the Earth's regulatory system, helping it to remain in our current desired state of the…

Cities: Challenges and Opportunities

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Cities: Challenges and Opportunities

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This chapter is about the challenges and opportunities that urban centers face. Urban centers are expanding beyond traditional urban boundaries in a process called urban…

Aerosol Loading

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Aerosol Loading

From SDG Academy

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This chapter explains the concern about atmospheric aerosols, which are liquid droplets or particles that are suspended in the atmosphere. They absorb and reflect light,…

The Great Acceleration

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The Great Acceleration

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We are now a big world on a small planet. The Great Acceleration starts with the expansion of human exploitation of the world, seen in urbanization, land-use…

Dance of the Plankton

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Dance of the Plankton

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Plankton are tiny creatures that drift in the sunlit surface layer of the sea, and their choreography is conducted by sunlight and nutrients. Light only penetrates the…

Fisheries Economics and Management

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Fisheries Economics and Management

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In the period from 1950 to the late 1980s, global catches in fishers have increased from less than 20 million tons per year to about 80 million tons per year. They have…

Interference with Global Nitrogen and Phosphorous…

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Interference with Global Nitrogen and Phosphorous…

Interference with Global Nitrogen and Phosphorous Cycles

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This chapter discusses human impacts on the global nitrogen and phosphorus cycles that link the living and non-living parts of the Earth system. These chemical…

Social Foundations for Planetary Boundaries

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Social Foundations for Planetary Boundaries

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This chapter discusses the social foundations for the planetary boundaries. This goes back to the Brundtland Report of 1987, which defined sustainability as a…

Quantification of the Nine Planetary Boundaries

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Quantification of the Nine Planetary Boundaries

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Challenges arise when trying to define quantitatively the boundary position for each global process. First, a control variable is identified as a parameter that…

Tree for the three: birds, landscape and…

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Tree for the three: birds, landscape and…

Tree for the three: birds, landscape and ecosystem services

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Birds contribute to pest predation and control, among many ecosystem services at agricultural landscapes. Trees can contribute to ecosystem regulation, shelter and…

Introducing the Planetary Boundaries Framework

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Introducing the Planetary Boundaries Framework

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This chapter explores the origins of the planetary boundaries, which comes from the recognition that we’ve entered the Anthropocene and that the exponential…

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