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DOI	10.1088/1748-9326/abac77
	Framework to define environmental sustainability boundaries and a review of current approaches
	Vea E.B.; Ryberg M.; Richardson K.; Hauschild M.Z.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	17489318
卷号	15 期号:10
英文摘要	Environmental sustainability boundaries can help us navigate a sustainable development trajectory, by evaluating environmental performance of current actions in relation to such boundaries. However, current definitions of environmental sustainability boundaries have shortcomings when used in environmental assessments. The shortcomings include considerations of regional differentiation and transparency with respect to how uncertainty is addressed. This paper seeks to improve the definition and application of environmental sustainability boundaries in environmental assessments by reviewing existing approaches to set them and elaborating an analytical framework for defining, communicating and adopting environmental sustainability boundaries in assessments. 110 original environmental sustainability boundaries were identified from existing literature and grouped into 13 categories of boundary approaches. The framework addresses five components (objective, boundary principle, uncertainty principle, accepted levels of impacts, and scientific estimate), and recommends practices for each. The framework is recommended for defining, communicating and adopting environmental sustainability boundaries, to facilitate a consistent application of them in environmental assessments. The analysis of existing boundary approaches showed that they often handle value-based aspects (e.g. choice of uncertainty principle) differently. Thus, it is recommended that value-based aspects are communicated explicitly to enable a practitioner to consider how this resonates with his/her own values or the values of central stakeholders when adopting environmental sustainability boundaries in an environmental assessment. © 2020 The Author(s).
英文关键词	Carrying capacity; Environmental sustainability boundary; Framework; Planetary boundaries; Sustainability; Sustainable development; Threshold
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Environmental impact; Environmental impact assessments; Environmental management; Uncertainty analysis; Current definition; Environmental assessment; Environmental performance; Environmental sustainability; Uncertainty principles; Value-based; Sustainable development; analytical framework; environmental assessment; stakeholder; sustainability; sustainable development; uncertainty analysis
来源期刊	Environmental Research Letters
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/153609
作者单位	Division of Sustainability, Department of Technology, Management and Economics, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, 2800, Denmark; Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, 2100, Denmark
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Vea E.B.,Ryberg M.,Richardson K.,et al. Framework to define environmental sustainability boundaries and a review of current approaches[J],2020,15(10).
APA	Vea E.B.,Ryberg M.,Richardson K.,&Hauschild M.Z..(2020).Framework to define environmental sustainability boundaries and a review of current approaches.Environmental Research Letters,15(10).
MLA	Vea E.B.,et al."Framework to define environmental sustainability boundaries and a review of current approaches".Environmental Research Letters 15.10(2020).