The researchers reviewed 350 scientific papers and data sources to assess how land use change and land degradation impacts and interacts with seven “land-based” planetary boundaries.

Stuart Pimm, the Doris Duke chair of conservation ecology at Duke University, who co-authored a critical paper about planetary boundaries in 2018, went further. “The measures they use make no ...

The planetary boundary framework suggests that ... Based on these percentages, we’ve already very likely crossed the land use boundary. The number of trees worldwide has fallen nearly 50% ...

The nine "planetary boundaries" represent components ... The need to respect the Land Use Change boundary puts focus on the increasing global use of biomass as an alternative for coal, oil ...

Since its initial presentation, the planetary boundaries model has ... Another surpassed boundary involves land use. Specifically, the researchers quantified forest loss and researchers found ...

Therefore, there are concerns about whether production of geological resources can continue within the sustainable use limit (planetary boundary) of water availability, or if production can be ...

"The planetary boundaries framework sets boundaries on ... of the Earth system we can allow ourselves to use without greatly increasing the risk that our activities will lead to dramatic and ...

The team suggests a set of control variables that can be used together to include plastics pollution in the operational use of the Planetary Boundaries framework. Their impact pathway approach ...

Seven of nine planetary boundaries are now adversely impacted by unsustainable land use and other land practices, the report finds. Six of those boundaries are already transgressed, having moved ...

Use of biomass affects biodiversity The need ... where the Paris agreement has adopted the climate planetary boundary of holding the 1.5°C limit. Similarly, the world has accepted the planetary ...