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DOI	10.1088/1748-9326/ab7766
	Learning from generations of sustainability concepts
	Downing A.S.; Chang M.; Kuiper J.J.; Campenni M.; Haÿhä T.; Cornell S.E.; Svedin U.; Mooij W.M.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	17489318
卷号	15 期号:8
英文摘要	Background: For decades, scientists have attempted to provide a sustainable development framework that integrates goals of environmental protection and human development. The Planetary Boundaries concept (PBc)- A framework to guide sustainable development-juxtaposes a 'safe operating space for humanity' and 'planetary boundaries', to achieve a goal that decades of research have yet to meet. We here investigate if PBc is sufficiently different to previous sustainability concepts to have the intended impact, and map how future sustainability concept developments might make a difference. Design: We build a genealogy of the research that is cited in and informs PBc. We analyze this genealogy with the support of two seminal and a new consumer-resource models, that provide simple and analytically tractable analogies to human-environment relationships. These models bring together environmental limits, minimum requirements for populations and relationships between resource-limited and waste-limited environments. Results: PBc is based on coherent knowledge about sustainability that has been in place in scientific and policy contexts since the 1980s. PBc represents the ultimate framing of limits to the use of the environment, as limits not to single resources, but to Holocene-like Earth system dynamics. Though seldom emphasized, the crux of the limits to sustainable environmental dynamics lies in waste (mis-)management, which sets where boundary values might be. Minimum requirements for populations are under-defined: It is the distribution of resources, opportunities and waste that shape what is a safe space and for whom. Discussion: We suggest that PBc is not different or innovative enough to break 'Cassandra's dilemma' and ensure scientific research effectively guides humanity towards sustainable development. For this, key issues of equality must be addressed, un-sustainability must be framed as a problem of today, rather than projected into the future, and scientific foundations of frameworks such as PBc must be broadened and diversified. © 2020 The Author(s). Published by IOP Publishing Ltd.
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Environmental protection; History; Planning; Waste management; Boundary values; Concept development; Environmental dynamics; Human development; Human environment; Minimum requirements; Scientific foundations; Scientific researches; Sustainable development; learning; methodology; planning method; sustainability
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/153906
作者单位	Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm, SE-10691, Sweden; Department of Aquatic Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), PO Box 50, Wageningen, 6700 AB, Netherlands; Department of Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management, Wageningen University, PO Box 47, Wageningen, 6700 AA, Netherlands; Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85281, United States; University of Exeter, Biosciences, Penryn, Cornwall, TR10 9FE, United Kingdom; International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Schlossplatz 11, Laxenburg, A-2361, Austria; Institute for Ecological Economics, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Downing A.S.,Chang M.,Kuiper J.J.,et al. Learning from generations of sustainability concepts[J],2020,15(8).
APA	Downing A.S..,Chang M..,Kuiper J.J..,Campenni M..,Haÿhä T..,...&Mooij W.M..(2020).Learning from generations of sustainability concepts.Environmental Research Letters,15(8).
MLA	Downing A.S.,et al."Learning from generations of sustainability concepts".Environmental Research Letters 15.8(2020).