Together with an international team of 28 scientists he first proposed the Planetary Boundaries (PB) framework in 2009. “Thanks to the science of the Planetary Boundaries, we have clear evidence ...

University of Groningen scientist Klaus Hubacek investigates planetary boundaries. With a global population of eight billion, ...

How much land, water, and other resources does our lifestyle require? And how can we adapt this lifestyle to stay within the limits of what the Earth can give? A new article tackles these questions.

By Alden Wicker “Plastics pollution exacerbates the impacts of all [nine] planetary boundaries,” warns a report published ...

There is a limit to the amount of consumption the Earth can support, and in 2009, scientists defined nine "planetary boundaries" as indicators of when we have reached that limit. Crossing them may ...

From natural science to social science, from risks to solutions, from identifying Planetary Boundaries to managing Global Commons: PIK is advancing the frontier of integrated research for global ...

The Planetary Boundaries (PB) framework is a pivotal tool for tackling the climate crisis and safeguarding humanity's future on Earth. For the first time, the full story of the Planetary ...

Together with an international team of 28 scientists, he first proposed the PB framework in 2009. "Thanks to the science of the Planetary Boundaries, we have clear evidence that there is no ...

Just How Much Of The Planet Do We Have Left? The idea of planetary boundaries--the maximum amount of resources we can use--is controversial and debatable. How do we know when we’ve simply ...

The related achievement, titled "Keeping the global consumption within the planetary boundaries," has been published online in Nature as a research paper. Professors Tian Peipei and Zhong ...