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DOI	10.3390/su16010331
	The Six Critical Determinants That May Act as Human Sustainability Boundaries on Climate Change Action
	Santos, Filipe Duarte; O'Riordan, Tim; de Sousa, Miguel Rocha; Pedersen, Jiesper Strandsbjerg Tristan
发表日期	2024
EISSN	2071-1050
起始页码	16
结束页码	1
卷号	16 期号:1
英文摘要	Significant advances have been achieved in multilateral negotiations regarding human development and environmental safeguarding since the 1972 UN Stockholm Conference. There is much greater global awareness and action towards sustainability. However, sustainability has persistently been sidelined, leading to the identification and definition of a transgressed safe and just space for humanity. Here we develop a new evolutionary approach and methodology to explain the reasons why sustainability continues to be a difficult challenge for contemporary societies to adopt. We argue that these originate in six major biological, social, psychological, political, and cultural critical determinants that resulted from human biologic and cultural evolution. Although they are essential for human prosperity and wellbeing, these characteristics may also act as human sustainability boundaries. It is possible to reduce the inhibiting power of each critical determinant in the pathways to sustainability, a vital process that we term softening. Identifying, knowing, and softening these impediments is a necessary first step to achieving sustainability through greater self-knowledge and transformational processes. The application of the present methodology is restricted here to the climate change challenge. We examine the ways in which each human sustainability boundary is capable of obstructing climate action and offer possible ways to soften its hardness.
英文关键词	sustainability; environment and development; evolutionary approach; critical determinants for sustainability; sustainability boundaries; climate change action
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Science & Technology - Other Topics ; Environmental Sciences & Ecology
WOS类目	Green & Sustainable Science & Technology ; Environmental Sciences ; Environmental Studies
WOS记录号	WOS:001140352000001
来源期刊	SUSTAINABILITY
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/309223
作者单位	Universidade de Lisboa; University of East Anglia; University of Evora; University of Evora; University of Evora; Utrecht University
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Santos, Filipe Duarte,O'Riordan, Tim,de Sousa, Miguel Rocha,et al. The Six Critical Determinants That May Act as Human Sustainability Boundaries on Climate Change Action[J],2024,16(1).
APA	Santos, Filipe Duarte,O'Riordan, Tim,de Sousa, Miguel Rocha,&Pedersen, Jiesper Strandsbjerg Tristan.(2024).The Six Critical Determinants That May Act as Human Sustainability Boundaries on Climate Change Action.SUSTAINABILITY,16(1).
MLA	Santos, Filipe Duarte,et al."The Six Critical Determinants That May Act as Human Sustainability Boundaries on Climate Change Action".SUSTAINABILITY 16.1(2024).