气候变化领域集成服务门户(CCPortal): Safe and just operating spaces for regional social-ecological systems

CCPortal

DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2014.06.012
	Safe and just operating spaces for regional social-ecological systems
	Dearing J.A.; Wang R.; Zhang K.; Dyke J.G.; Haberl H.; Hossain M.S.; Langdon P.G.; Lenton T.M.; Raworth K.; Brown S.; Carstensen J.; Cole M.J.; Cornell S.E.; Dawson T.P.; Doncaster C.P.; Eigenbrod F.; Flörke M.; Jeffers E.; Mackay A.W.; Nykvist B.; Poppy G.M.
发表日期	2014
ISSN	0959-3780
卷号	28 期号:1
英文摘要	Humanity faces a major global challenge in achieving wellbeing for all, while simultaneously ensuring that the biophysical processes and ecosystem services that underpin wellbeing are exploited within scientifically informed boundaries of sustainability. We propose a framework for defining the safe and just operating space for humanity that integrates social wellbeing into the original planetary boundaries concept (Rockström et al., 2009a,b) for application at regional scales. We argue that such a framework can: (1) increase the policy impact of the boundaries concept as most governance takes place at the regional rather than planetary scale (2) contribute to the understanding and dissemination of complexity thinking throughout governance and policy-making; (3) act as a powerful metaphor and communication tool for regional equity and sustainability. We demonstrate the approach in two rural Chinese localities where we define the safe and just operating space that lies between an environmental ceiling and a social foundation from analysis of time series drawn from monitored and palaeoecological data, and from social survey statistics respectively. Agricultural intensification has led to poverty reduction, though not eradicated it, but at the expense of environmental degradation. Currently, the environmental ceiling is exceeded for degraded water quality at both localities even though the least well-met social standards are for available piped water and sanitation. The conjunction of these social needs and environmental constraints around the issue of water access and quality illustrates the broader value of the safe and just operating space approach for sustainable development. © 2014 The Authors.
英文关键词	Environmental thresholds; Regional boundaries; Social wellbeing; Social-ecological systems
学科领域	agricultural intensification; biophysics; ecosystem service; environmental economics; environmental policy; policy making; rural area; social policy; statistical analysis; sustainability; sustainable development; water availability; water quality; geostatistics; regional policy; rural policy; time series; China
语种	英语
scopus关键词	agricultural intensification; biophysics; ecosystem service; environmental economics; environmental policy; policy making; rural area; social policy; statistical analysis; sustainability; sustainable development; water availability; water quality; geostatistics; regional policy; rural policy; time series; China
来源期刊	Global Environmental Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/117746
作者单位	Palaeoecology Laboratory, Geography and Environment, University of Southampton, Highfield Campus, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom; Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, 73 East Beijing Road, Nanjing, 210008, China; ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, PO Box 6811, Cairns, QLD 4870, Australia; Institute for Complex Systems Simulation, University of Southampton, Highfield Campus, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom; Institute of Social Ecology Vienna (SEC), Faculty for Interdisciplinary Studies Klagenfurt, Wien, Graz (IFF), Alpen-Adria-Universitaet Klagenfurt (AAU), Schottenfeldgasse 29, Vienna, A-1070, Austria; Earth System Science, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Laver Building, Exeter, EX4 4QE, United Kingdom; Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University Centre for the Environment, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QY, United Kingdom; Faculty of Engineering and the Environment, And Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Re...
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Dearing J.A.,Wang R.,Zhang K.,et al. Safe and just operating spaces for regional social-ecological systems[J],2014,28(1).
APA	Dearing J.A..,Wang R..,Zhang K..,Dyke J.G..,Haberl H..,...&Poppy G.M..(2014).Safe and just operating spaces for regional social-ecological systems.Global Environmental Change,28(1).
MLA	Dearing J.A.,et al."Safe and just operating spaces for regional social-ecological systems".Global Environmental Change 28.1(2014).