Journal articles: 'Planetary sustainability'

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Losch, Andreas. "Planetary sustainability: transitions of an idea." International Journal of Astrobiology 18, no. 6 (April 1, 2019): 592–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s147355041900003x.

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Beisbart, Claus. "(Trans-)planetary sustainability once more – a reply to Losch." International Journal of Astrobiology 18, no. 6 (April 10, 2019): 590–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1473550419000028.

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AbstractIn this reply to Losch (2019), I show that, Losch's own judgement notwithstanding, his plea for a concept of (trans-)planetary sustainability does propose conceptual change. I further argue that he has not provided convincing reasons to think that the label ‘planetary’ is superior to ‘trans-planetary’. I summarize my concerns about the plea for introducing the notion of (trans-)planetary sustainability and a related ethics.

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Whiteman, Gail, Brian Walker, and Paolo Perego. "Planetary Boundaries: Ecological Foundations for Corporate Sustainability." Journal of Management Studies 50, no. 2 (September 20, 2012): 307–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6486.2012.01073.x.

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Lim, Michelle, Abigail J. Lynch, Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares, Lenke Balint, Zeenatul Basher, Ivis Chan, Pedro Jaureguiberry, et al. "Early-career experts essential for planetary sustainability." Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 29 (December 2017): 151–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2018.02.004.

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Losch, Andreas. "The need of an ethics of planetary sustainability." International Journal of Astrobiology 18, no. 3 (January 10, 2018): 259–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1473550417000490.

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AbstractThe concept of sustainability is widely acknowledged as a political guideline. Economic, ecological, social and cultural aspects of sustainability are already under discussion. Current space mining efforts demand that the discussion become a broader one about ‘planetary sustainability’, including the space surrounding Earth. To date, planetary sustainability has mainly been used with reference to Earth only and I will extend it here, elaborating on a similar NASA initiative. This article (1) sketches the contemporary economic–political initiatives which call for a special reflection of Earth's location in space, and then (2) discusses the meaning of the concept of sustainability in this context. Next, (3) I relate the discussion to the issue of planetary and environmental protection, before, (4) finally, presenting a philosophical and theological perspective that seems particularly able to broach the issue of the multiple dimensions of sustainability in this context. This is the concept of constructive-critical realism. My overview of the topic concludes with (5) a summarizing outlook.

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Rajan, Roby. "Disaster Management, Sustainability, and Globalization: An Integrative Planetary Approach." International Journal of Interdisciplinary Global Studies 16, no. 2 (2021): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.18848/2324-755x/cgp/v16i02/1-12.

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Carrard, Naomi, and Juliet Willetts. "Environmentally sustainable WASH? Current discourse, planetary boundaries and future directions." Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development 7, no. 2 (March 22, 2017): 209–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/washdev.2017.130.

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The significant challenge of achieving safe, reliable and continuous service delivery has been a focus of the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector in recent years, with less attention given to other important sustainability considerations such as environmental sustainability. The agenda set by the Sustainable Development Goals prompts a wider lens, bringing water resource management and ecosystem conservation together with water and sanitation access targets in one integrated goal. As we grapple with our approach to this new agenda, it is timely to reflect on how we, as a sector, engage with environmental sustainability. This paper reviews recent literature at the intersection of WASH and environmental sustainability to identify current themes and future directions. Analysis of academic and non-academic sources was undertaken and then situated with reference to the planetary boundaries framework as a useful lens to ground the socio-ecological systems and processes upon which environmental sustainability depends. Findings point to both opportunities and gaps within current sector thinking, which can drive leadership from knowledge and research institutions towards better integration of access and environmental sustainability imperatives.

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Petrov, Andrey N., and Tatiana Vlasova. "Towards an Arctic Sustainability Monitoring Framework." Sustainability 13, no. 9 (April 25, 2021): 4800. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13094800.

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It is becoming more evident that in the twenty-first century we are living in the new era of Anthropocene, where humans attained the ability to alter planetary processes, bringing new urgency to the systematic understanding of current and future social and environmental changes [...]

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Galli, André, and Andreas Losch. "Beyond planetary protection: What is planetary sustainability and what are its implications for space research?" Life Sciences in Space Research 23 (November 2019): 3–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lssr.2019.02.005.

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Tulus, Victor, Javier Pérez-Ramírez, and Gonzalo Guillén-Gosálbez. "Planetary metrics for the absolute environmental sustainability assessment of chemicals." Green Chemistry 23, no. 24 (2021): 9881–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d1gc02623b.

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We provide guidelines for performing absolute environmental sustainability assessments (AESA) of chemicals based on the planetary boundaries and classifying them as sustainable or unsustainable, and use them to evaluate 492 chemical products.

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Luers, Amy L. "Planetary intelligence for sustainability in the digital age: Five priorities." One Earth 4, no. 6 (June 2021): 772–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2021.05.013.

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Lucas, Elysia, Miao Guo, and Gonzalo Guillén-Gosálbez. "Optimising diets to reach absolute planetary environmental sustainability through consumers." Sustainable Production and Consumption 28 (October 2021): 877–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.spc.2021.07.003.

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Schmidt, Nikola. "The political desirability, feasibility, and sustainability of planetary defense governance." Acta Astronautica 156 (March 2019): 416–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2018.06.037.

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Showstack, Randy. "Sustainability and Planetary Thresholds Are Focus of New Worldwatch Report." Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union 94, no. 18 (April 30, 2013): 168. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2013eo180006.

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Randall, Alan. "Monitoring Sustainability and Targeting Interventions: Indicators, Planetary Boundaries, Benefits and Costs." Sustainability 13, no. 6 (March 14, 2021): 3181. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13063181.

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This article shows how sustainability indicators (SIs) which have proliferated, and downscaled planetary boundaries (DPBs) which have recently emerged, can be used to target remedial interventions. I offer an integrative analysis drawing upon the existing literature, challenging, clarifying, and amending it in some ways, and extending it with new insights. The exposition is couched in the example of pollution control, but the analysis also applies to resource management with only modest amendments. Key conclusions are summarized. (i) In a default case where damage is indifferent to location within the problem shed and transactions costs are trivial, minimizing abatement costs requires that all units face the same marginal price of emissions and can be implemented by price setting at the jurisdictional level or cap and trade in pollution reduction credits. Larger geographic scale tends to reduce the average cost of abatement, an argument for coordination at the problem-shed level. Deviations from the default policy may be appropriate for addressing large point sources and local hot spots where damage is concentrated. (ii) A framework winnowing the proliferation of SIs includes the following principles: for quantitative target setting, SIs should address sustainability in its long-term context; SIs should be measured in ratio scale, whereas ordinal-scale SIs are common; and SIs should be selected for their usefulness in mapping the relationships among emissions, ambient concentrations, and damage. (iii) Target setting requires science-based empirical relationships and social values to assess trade-offs between abatement and its opportunity costs and suggest upper limits on tolerable damage. (iv) PBs that address global public goods can usefully be downscaled to set abatement targets. The PBs are science based and, in their original form, propose replacing social values with imperatives: violating the PB will doom the planet, which is unacceptable given any plausible value system. Given that PB = ∑DPB over all jurisdictions, global trading of credits would minimize costs of honoring the PB. Trade among a willing subset of jurisdictions could minimize the costs of meeting its aggregate DPB. (v) In contrast to most SI approaches, a cost–benefit (CB) approach can deal with substitutability and complementarity among sustainability objectives and evaluate multi-component policies. Net benefits are maximized when the marginal cost of abatement equals the marginal benefit for all units in the problem shed. This can be attained by price setting at the jurisdictional level or trade in credits. (vi) A major advantage of the CB approach is its well-defined relationship to weak sustainability. However, its value measures over-weight the preferences of the well-off. Equity considerations suggest relief from strict CB criteria in the case of essentials such as human health and nutrition, and subsidization by rich countries of sustainability projects in low-income countries.

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Ryberg, Morten W., Martin Marchman Andersen, Mikołaj Owsianiak, and Michael Z. Hauschild. "Downscaling the planetary boundaries in absolute environmental sustainability assessments – A review." Journal of Cleaner Production 276 (December 2020): 123287. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.123287.

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Sala, Serenella, Eleonora Crenna, Michela Secchi, and Esther Sanyé-Mengual. "Environmental sustainability of European production and consumption assessed against planetary boundaries." Journal of Environmental Management 269 (September 2020): 110686. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.110686.

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Antonini, Carla, and Carlos Larrinaga. "Planetary Boundaries and Sustainability Indicators. A Survey of Corporate Reporting Boundaries." Sustainable Development 25, no. 2 (March 2017): 123–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/sd.1667.

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Morandín-Ahuerma, Indra, Armando Contreras-Hernández, Dante Ariel Ayala-Ortiz, and Octavio Pérez-Maqueo. "Socio–Ecosystemic Sustainability." Sustainability 11, no. 12 (June 17, 2019): 3354. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11123354.

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In its most recent report, the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) announced an unprecedented dangerous decline in biodiversity, one of the planetary limits that are currently being surpassed. The results and trends of socio–ecosystemic problems oblige us to attempt to understand and address the global crisis. Socio–ecosystemic problems are not only ethical and moral challenges but also ones of interest and security, since the financial resources available will be insufficient for people immersed in a sick and dysfunctional society. In this sense, science plays a central role in offering alternatives. This work is a theoretical construction, based on complexity and transdiscipline, that aims to offer these alternatives. It is enriched by several areas of knowledge, with the objective of broadening the interpretation of sustainability and overcoming some of the limitations of existing approaches through the recognition of the objective and subjective relationships between humans and ecosystems. Socio–ecosystemic sustainability is an adaptative process, taking the principles of strong sustainability and autopoiesis as an explanation of living and the processes that maintain and reproduce it. It is argued that goals centered on a vision of economic growth are not coherent with the natural processes of the biosphere—as shown by thermodynamics and complex systems—nor, indeed, with a functional society. The health and life on planet is a compelling reason for seeking dialogue between individuals and coherence in the three dimensions of socio–ecosystem sustainability.

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Walshe, Nicola, and Louise Sund. "Developing (Transformative) Environmental and Sustainability Education in Classroom Practice." Sustainability 14, no. 1 (December 23, 2021): 110. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su14010110.

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We are writing this editorial in the weeks preceding COP26; as we do, wall-to-wall coverage of events and speculation of what might (or might not) be achieved across mainstream and social media channels suggest that awareness of the impacts of climate change on planetary sustainability and human and nonhuman forms of life has never been higher [...]

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Ranängen, Helena, Mathias Cöster, Raine Isaksson, and Rickard Garvare. "From Global Goals and Planetary Boundaries to Public Governance—A Framework for Prioritizing Organizational Sustainability Activities." Sustainability 10, no. 8 (August 3, 2018): 2741. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su10082741.

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Background: A particular challenge in the work to realize the global goals for sustainable development is to find ways for organizations to identify and prioritize organizational activities that address these goals. There are also several sustainability initiatives, guidelines and tools to consider when planning, working with and reporting on sustainable development. Although progress has been made, little has been written about how organizations rise to and manage the challenge. The paper explores how organizations address sustainable development, which sustainability aspects they prioritize and whether previous research can improve the priority process by using materiality analysis approach. Methods: A case study approach was chosen. Data was collected by interactive workshops and documentation. The participating organizations were two Swedish municipalities; Results: The municipalities have introduced a number of sustainability aspects into their organizational governance, especially in terms of society, human rights and the environment. A materiality analysis was conducted to determine the relevance and significance of sustainability aspects. The result shows that climate action, biodiversity and freshwater use are aspects that should be prioritized; Conclusion: The materiality analysis methodology chosen for prioritizing of sustainability aspects was useful and easy to work with. However, the sustainability aspect matrix and the risk assessment have to be updated regularly in order to form an effective base for the materiality analysis.

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Li, Mo, Thomas Wiedmann, Kai Fang, and Michalis Hadjikakou. "The role of planetary boundaries in assessing absolute environmental sustainability across scales." Environment International 152 (July 2021): 106475. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2021.106475.

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Klemenc Ketiš, Zalika, and Andree Rochfort. "Sustainability for planetary health: A seventh domain of quality in primary care." Slovenian Journal of Public Health 61, no. 4 (September 28, 2022): 198–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/sjph-2022-0026.

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Abstract Climate change is one of the biggest threats to public health. Sustainability is characterized by using resources wisely in a way that protects finite resources and the environment, and takes into account the needs of our planets’ inhabitants in the future. Sustainability in health care should be considered as a seventh domain of quality, as it can lead to improvement of patient outcomes, and more capacity for health care workers to engage in quality improvement and thereby improve the quality of care. The carbon footprint of primary care is high, mainly due to prescribing medication, but also due to the transport of patients to hospitals and primary care services for interventions requested by family medicine. Other causes are the transport of staff and supplies, consumables and staff involved in laboratory analysis and radiation, medical and non-medical equipment, clinical and non-clinical waste, heating and cooling systems and other activities. Small adjustments in these areas could significantly decrease the carbon footprint of primary care practices. The suggested steps for primary care to achieve a more sustainable practice are fostering research, raising awareness, reducing the burden on primary care, engaging in quality improvement, and leadership and advocacy. Each individual primary care practice has the potential to be a leader and role model for sustainable health care. With the implementation of interventions to reduce carbon footprints, primary care could set an example within the health sector and for patients. This could significantly raise the awareness of the public about the need to take actions for a greener health system.

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Huang, Lance Hongwei, Allen H. Hu, and Chien-Hung Kuo. "Planetary boundary downscaling for absolute environmental sustainability assessment — Case study of Taiwan." Ecological Indicators 114 (July 2020): 106339. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.106339.

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Frank, Adam, and Woodruff Sullivan. "Sustainability and the astrobiological perspective: Framing human futures in a planetary context." Anthropocene 5 (March 2014): 32–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ancene.2014.08.002.

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Ekins, Paul. "Environmental sustainability." Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment 35, no. 5 (October 2011): 629–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0309133311423186.

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This paper reflects on the extensive literature on environmental sustainability that has been produced over the last two decades, and proposes a new approach for environmental policy that goes beyond the cost-benefit analysis that has proved so difficult to implement for non-marginal environmental issues. This approach combines the Safe Minimum Standard approach, which was proposed many years ago, with the concepts of environmental functions and ecosystem goods and services, which have been developed much more recently. It is shown that this approach provides the basis for a robust calculation of sustainability across different environmental themes, following which a ‘sustainability gap’, showing the extent to which this standard is not being met, may be computed. This gap may be expressed in both physical and monetary terms, which permits the formulation of sustainability performance in a scientifically robust, easily communicable indicator that may be compared with GDP. While there appear to be no insurmountable scientific or practical obstacles to the full operationalization of this approach, it remains to be seen whether human societies are sufficiently concerned about the implications of continuing environmental unsustainability to make the resources available for such operationalization, and to enact the policies to allow the sustainability standards to be met.

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Shannon, Geordan, Rita Issa, Chloe Wood, and Ilan Kelman. "Regenerative economics for planetary health: A scoping review." International Health Trends and Perspectives 2, no. 3 (December 1, 2022): 81–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.32920/ihtp.v2i3.1704.

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Introduction: The relationship between humans and our planet is conditioned by an economic system that undermines rather than supports health. There has been an emerging focus on the relationship between economic structures and planetary health, but alternative economic approaches to support health for people and the planet require further development. Regenerative economics offers a compelling approach to transform humankind’s relationships with each other and their environment. Regenerative economics fosters grounded, pragmatic solutions to wider human and ecological crises that moves beyond a sustainability discourse towards one of regeneration. While there are, notionally, large areas of overlap between regenerative economics and planetary health, to date these have not been systematically articulated. Methods: A scoping review was performed to examine the background, principles, and applications of regenerative economics, and their implications for planetary health. Five databases (SCOPUS, Ovid Medline, Web of Science, Geobase, IEEE Xplore) were searched for peer-reviewed literature using key terms relating to regenerative economics and planetary health. Findings were reported using thematic synthesis. Results: The review identified a total of 121 articles and included 30 papers in the final review, from economics, industrial design, business, tourism, education, urban design and architecture, energy, technology, and food and agriculture. The principles of regenerative economics focused on people, place, planet, position, peace, plurality, and progress. Putting these principles into action requires identifying and valuing different forms of capital, taking a dynamic systems approach, applying regenerative design, developing a true circular economy, good governance, and transdisciplinary education and advocacy. Conclusions: While the principles of regenerative economics and planetary health are well aligned, the tools and actions of each field differ substantially. Planetary health can learn from regenerative economics’ grounding in natural design principles, systems-based approaches, actions at the right scale and cadence, respect for diversity, community and place, and mindset that moves beyond sustainability towards a regenerative future.

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Fresán, Ujué, and Joan Sabaté. "Vegetarian Diets: Planetary Health and Its Alignment with Human Health." Advances in Nutrition 10, Supplement_4 (November 1, 2019): S380—S388. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/advances/nmz019.

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ABSTRACT To maintain planetary health, human activities must limit the use of Earth's resources within finite boundaries and avoid environmental degradation. At present, food systems account for a substantial use of natural resources and contribute considerably to climate change, degradation of land, water use, and other impacts, which in turn threaten human health through food insecurity. Additionally, current dietary patterns, rich in animal products and excessive in calories, are detrimental to both population and planetary health. In order to resolve the diet-environment-health trilemma, population-level dietary changes are essential. Vegetarian diets are reported to be healthy options. Most plant-sourced foods are less resource intense and taxing on the environment than the production of animal-derived foods, particularly meat and dairy from ruminants. This review article explores simultaneously the environmental sustainability of vegetarian diets, and its alignment with people's health. In general, the progression from omnivorous to ovolactovegetarian and vegan diets is associated with increased environmental sustainability. Greenhouse gas emissions resulting from vegan and ovolactovegetarian diets are ∼50% and ∼35% lower, respectively, than most current omnivore diets, and with corresponding reductions in the use of natural resources. Concomitant health benefits could be obtained by shifting from current dietary patterns to sustainable vegetarian diets. Thus, there seems to be an alignment of health and environmental outcomes for vegetarian diets. Although this shows the human health and environmental sustainability benefits of vegetarian diets in high-income countries, questions remain about the challenges in other contexts and the political will to promote meat-free diets as the social norm.

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Reed, M. G., and O. Slaymaker. "Ethics and Sustainability: A Preliminary Perspective." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 25, no. 5 (May 1993): 723–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/a250723.

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Geographers or students of human — environment relations have an important role to play in addressing the questions and issues associated with environmental sustainability. It is the authors' thesis that a central weakness in geography's response to environmental problems and to issues of sustainability is the lack of engagement with questions of ethics. An overall ethic of care, respect, and responsibility is proposed. Within this overarching framework, it is suggested that the society — environment relation may be a scale-dependent problem set, with a separate expression of environmental ethics associated with each scale. For example, an ethic appropriate at the planetary scale may differ from that which is pertinent at the local scale. This argument is advanced through examples from religious and secular interpretations of human — environment relations. In a preliminary way, both moral and technical issues associated with different ethical positions are raised and geographers are challenged to consider and debate their implications. It is concluded that without explicit environmental ethical premises, the sustainability debate is indeterminate.

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Muthama, Nzioka John. "Sub-National policy readiness as regards the planet’s carrying capacity and environmental sustainability in Kenya." Journal of Sustainability, Environment and Peace 1, no. 1 (February 4, 2019): 6–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.53537/jsep.2019.02.002.

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The achievement of global sustainable development goals subject to planetary boundaries will mostly be determined at national and at sub-national level as regards contribution to cultures, economies, material use, and waste generation. This paper seeks to investigate planetary and Kenya’s county boundaries as development targets from a county development plan perspective. The methodology provides an important tool for counties to play a more fulsome and active role in global sustainable development. Content analysis of the nine limits, namely: climate change, novel entities, ozone depletion, aerosol loading, ocean acidification, biogeochemical flows, freshwater use, land-system change, and biosphere integrity, was performed in the context of the respective County Integrated Development Plans (CIDPs) 2018-2023. A total of 22 CIDPs for 22 counties are analysed to capture the content entailing issues pertaining to the above nine limits. Correlation analysis of the counts of the limits were generated and discussed. It was observed that the CIDPs cover between 30 to 60% of the expected content of the limits. This is a pointer to the extent to which the counties, and hence Kenya as a country, are ready as regards addressing planetary boundaries at local level. Further, correlation analysis on the counts on planetary boundaries versus peace issues revealed positive correlation between biodiversity and peace, with a correlation coefficient of 0.575. It is interesting to observe that the counties having strategies on biodiversity have associate peace initiatives. This is a pointer that promotion of biodiversity conservation is closely relate to peaceful outcomes.

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Preluca, Andreea, Karin Hakelius, and Cecilia Mark-Herbert. "Sustainability of Worker Co-Operatives." Sustainability 14, no. 18 (September 14, 2022): 11542. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su141811542.

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With the world of business often criticised for contributing to social and environmental damage, addressing sustainability has become necessary for virtually all business models, including co-operatives. This article investigates ways in which worker co-operatives can contribute to a more sustainable world, using the conceptual lens of Doughnut Economics (DE). It places enterprises, as a supporting pillar of our economies, at the intersection between meeting social needs and operating within planetary boundaries. A descriptive multiple case study of six worker co-operatives in the UK indicates that these enterprises contribute to sustainability primarily by embodying a mission of fulfilling the needs of workers and their communities, rather than just aiming for financial gains. Worker co-operatives are enterprises with highly generative design traits, distributive of the wealth they generate, and to some degree regenerative by design. Their strengths lie in learning capacity and distributive values that contribute to social sustainability. The implications of the study are demonstrated in the use of the DE model for addressing sustainability in the studied worker co-operatives. This article contributes to the body of knowledge on sustainability in worker co-operatives as a relatively less researched form of co-operative organisation, employing DE as a holistic framework which so far has been seldom used in business research.

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Ahern, Geoffrey Maurice. "Imagining what underlies corporate sustainability." Journal of Management Development 34, no. 4 (April 13, 2015): 494–504. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jmd-06-2014-0064.

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to draw attention to the range and depth of sustainability issues at their points of impact with company experience, and to pilot an illustration of how they could be imaginatively yet critically approached for management development purposes. Design/methodology/approach – Citing and making sense of a variety of seminal or otherwise relevant sources in order to illustrate an imaginative yet critical approach to sustainability. This is a pilot demonstration to stimulate discussion and to help individuals develop their own sense making. Findings – The need to allow space and time for reflection on the depth and breadth of sustainability approaches in order to enable personal understanding leading to wise action. Research limitations/implications – This paper discusses planetary sustainability yet is confined to mainly Anglophone sources. Some of the latent environmental thought forms discussed, e.g. doom, may be largely restricted to them. Practical implications – Divergent evaluations of trans-disciplinary, critical sustainability approaches are necessary for the longer-term development of motivation within companies. Originality/value – This appears to be the first attempted trans-disciplinary yet critical business studies approach to sustainability at its points of impact with corporate operations. It aims to contribute to a new kind of management development path.

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Shrivastava, Paul, Laszlo Zsolnai, David Wasieleski, Mark Stafford-Smith, Thomas Walker, Olaf Weber, Cary Krosinsky, and David Oram. "Finance and Management for the Anthropocene." Organization & Environment 32, no. 1 (February 12, 2019): 26–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1086026619831451.

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The Anthropocene era is characterized by a pronounced negative impact of human and social activities on natural ecosystems. To the extent finance, economics and management underlie human social activities, we need to reassess these fields and their role in achieving global sustainability. This article briefly presents the scientific evidence on accelerating impacts of human activities on nature, which have resulted in breach of planetary boundaries and onset of global climate change. It offers some potential leverage points for change toward sustainability stewardship by highlighting the important role of finance and economics in addressing climate change. We examine the role of financial stakeholders in addressing planetary boundaries and offer a modified stakeholder theory, from which we propose future directions for finance in the Anthropocene.

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Niankara, Ibrahim, Muhammad Noor Al adwan, and Aminata Niankara. "The Role of Digital Media in Shaping Youth Planetary Health Interests in the Global Economy." Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity 6, no. 3 (July 17, 2020): 49. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/joitmc6030049.

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Despite revolutionizing the work of practicing economists by providing a direct link between neo-classical economic theory and revealed market preference data, Random Utility Theory has yet to guide research applications in global market sustainability. With the worldwide adverse socio-economic effects of the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19), such application now becomes timely. Therefore, relying on a Random Utility theoretic formulation of youths’ preferences for the biosphere (ecosystem services, sustainability) and science-based disease prevention to characterize their planetary health interests, this paper adopts a micro-based planetary view of markets to retrospectively analyze the health and ecological implications of digital media consumption among youths in the global economy. Empirically, we rely on a mixed bivariate ordered probit specification, which is estimated using Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods. Our findings reveal a strong, positive correlation coefficient (0.835) between youths’ interests in the biosphere and science-based disease prevention. Moreover, digital media consumption in the form of increased frequency of ecological website visits, news blogs visits, and web-browsing on broad science, significantly reduce youths’ interests in the biosphere. A similar reduction in youths’ interest in science-based disease prevention is observed, from news blogs visits and web-browsing on broad science. Conversely, ecological website visits appear to raise youths’ interests in science-based disease prevention. Furthermore, we find a gender-based gradient in youths’ planetary health interest, in favor of the female gender. Overall, our findings confirm the appropriateness of a holistic view of health, and suggests a couple of policy implications for the long-term sustainability of our planet.

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Frank, Adam, David Grinspoon, and Sara Walker. "Intelligence as a planetary scale process." International Journal of Astrobiology 21, no. 2 (February 7, 2022): 47–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s147355042100029x.

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AbstractConventionally, intelligence is seen as a property of individuals. However, it is also known to be a property of collectives. Here, we broaden the idea of intelligence as a collective property and extend it to the planetary scale. We consider the ways in which the appearance of technological intelligence may represent a kind of planetary scale transition, and thus might be seen not as something which happens on a planet but to a planet, much as some models propose the origin of life itself was a planetary phenomenon. Our approach follows the recognition among researchers that the correct scale to understand key aspects of life and its evolution is planetary, as opposed to the more traditional focus on individual species. We explore ways in which the concept may prove useful for three distinct domains: Earth Systems and Exoplanet studies; Anthropocene and Sustainability studies; and the study of Technosignatures and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). We argue that explorations of planetary intelligence, defined as the acquisition and application of collective knowledge operating at a planetary scale and integrated into the function of coupled planetary systems, can prove a useful framework for understanding possible paths of the long-term evolution of inhabited planets including future trajectories for life on Earth and predicting features of intelligentially steered planetary evolution on other worlds.

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Sala, Serenella, Eleonora Crenna, Michela Secchi, and Esther Sanyé-Mengual. "Corrigendum to “Environmental sustainability of European production and consumption assessed against planetary boundaries”." Journal of Environmental Management 281 (March 2021): 111904. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.111904.

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Chen, Xianpeng, Chenglin Li, Mo Li, and Kai Fang. "Revisiting the application and methodological extensions of the planetary boundaries for sustainability assessment." Science of The Total Environment 788 (September 2021): 147886. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.147886.

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Maric, Filip, Kenneth Chance-Larsen, Julia Chevan, Sarah Jameson, David Nicholls, Emmanuelle Opsommer, Wajida Perveen, et al. "A progress report on planetary health, environmental and sustainability education in physiotherapy – Editorial." European Journal of Physiotherapy 23, no. 4 (June 4, 2021): 201–2. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21679169.2021.1932981.

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Maja and Reuben Fowkes. "Planetary Forecast: The Roots of Sustainability in the Radical Art of the 1970s." Third Text 23, no. 5 (September 2009): 669–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09528820903189277.

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Sala, Serenella, Eleonora Crenna, Michela Secchi, and Esther Sanyé-Mengual. "Corrigendum to “Environmental sustainability of European production and consumption assessed against planetary boundaries”." Journal of Environmental Management 281 (March 2021): 111904. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.111904.

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Everett, Jennifer. "Sustainability in higher education: Implications for the disciplines." Theory and Research in Education 6, no. 2 (July 2008): 237–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1477878508091115.

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Academic disciplines have a critical role to play in higher education's response to the planetary challenges of the 21st century. Many academics have embraced the call for a fundamental reorientation of higher education around the goal of education for sustainable development. Individual faculty members who prioritize such a pedagogical goal, however, may find themselves caught between claims of social responsibility on the one hand and traditional norms of their disciplines on the other. This predicament, I suggest, does not require resolution of theoretical debates over interdisciplinarity, but does require concrete practical action on the part of academics for institutional change in the disciplines. I highlight strategies currently being adopted by academic disciplinary associations to advance the mission of the UN Decade on Education for Sustainable Development.

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Mújika, Itziar. "El género del fin del mundo: aportes de la investigación feminista por la paz ante el mantropoceno." Revista de Estudios en Seguridad Internacional 7, no. 1 (June 21, 2021): 45–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.18847/1.13.5.

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The so-called Anthropocene debate has been characterized by an androcentric gaze, despite the fact that feminist perspectives such as ecofeminisms or new materialist feminisms have been making contributions on ecological and planetary sustainability for years. This article explores the possible contributions that Feminist Peace Research can make to this debate, thus including a critical analysis on conflicts and militarism on the debates regarding the sustainability of life on the planet.

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Nilsen, Heidi Rapp. "Staying within planetary boundaries as a premise for sustainability: On the responsibility to address counteracting sustainable development goals." Etikk i praksis - Nordic Journal of Applied Ethics, no. 1 (May 6, 2020): 29–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.5324/eip.v14i1.2863.

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Sustainable development, as explained through the three pillars of environment, society and economy, is a well-known concept and has been used extensively in recent decades. There is finally a growing acknowledgement that environmental sustainability is the prerequisite for achieving the other two pillars of societal and economic sustainability. Nevertheless, there is a tendency to not explicate the negative interactions between the pillars of sustainability, as in the interlinkages between the UN’s sustainable development goals. In this paper, we draw attention to a method for explicating both reinforcing and counteracting goals. This is a conceptual paper but with short, illustrative examples from different levels of the R&D sphere on how this method can be used: one example is at the project level, two are from financiers of R&D projects, and the other is at the UN level. Finally, a longer discussion on relevant ethical guidelines is presented. This paper addresses the responsibility to recognize when and how sustainability goals counteract each other through two key actions. The first action is to identify transgressions of global ecological system boundaries and the resulting serious consequences for trading on environmental sustainability. The second involves bringing to the fore relevant ethical guidelines from the Norwegian National Research Ethics Committee. An update of these guidelines is suggested to reflect recent research on the transgression of planetary boundaries and the consequences for a safe operating space for humans on Earth. Keywords: Environmental sustainability, ethical guidelines for research, UN sustainable development goals, counteracting goals

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SMITH, W., and L. SAUNDERS. "Agricultural Sustainability." New Zealand Geographer 52, no. 1 (April 1996): 21–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-7939.1996.tb00460.x.

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Chalmers, Lex. "Sustainability education." New Zealand Geographer 63, no. 3 (December 2007): 225. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-7939.2007.00121.x.

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van der Walt, I. J., J. A. A. Jones, and Ming-ko Woo. "Introduction—Water Sustainability." Physical Geography 27, no. 4 (January 2006): 283–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.2747/0272-3646.27.4.283.

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Sjåfjell, Beate. "Sustainable Value Creation Within Planetary Boundaries—Reforming Corporate Purpose and Duties of the Corporate Board." Sustainability 12, no. 15 (August 3, 2020): 6245. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12156245.

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Business, and the dominant legal form of business, that is, the corporation, must be involved in the transition to sustainability, if we are to succeed in securing a safe and just space for humanity. The corporate board has a crucial role in determining the strategy and the direction of the corporation. However, currently, the function of the corporate board is constrained through the social norm of shareholder primacy, reinforced through the intermediary structures of capital markets. This article argues that an EU law reform is key to integrating sustainability into mainstream corporate governance, into the corporate purpose and the core duties of the corporate board, to change corporations from within. While previous attempts at harmonizing core corporate law at the EU level have failed, there are now several drivers for reform that may facilitate a change, including the EU Commission’s increased emphasis on sustainability. Drawing on this momentum, this article presents a proposal to reform corporate purpose and duties of the board, based on the results of the EU-funded research project, Sustainable Market Actors for Responsible Trade (SMART, 2016–2020).

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Edwards, Mark G., Jose M. Alcaraz, and Sarah E. Cornell. "Management Education and Earth System Science: Transformation as if Planetary Boundaries Mattered." Business & Society 60, no. 1 (December 19, 2018): 26–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0007650318816513.

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Earth system science (ESS) has identified worrying trends in the human impact on fundamental planetary systems. In this conceptual article, we discuss the implications of this research for business schools and management education (ME). We argue that ESS findings raise significant concerns about the relationship between business and nature and, consequently, a radical reframing is required to embed economic and social activity within the global sustainability of natural systems. This has transformative implications for ME. To illustrate this reframing, we apply the ESS lenses of social-ecological interdependence, multiscalar relations, environmental governance, and environmental values to the ME functional domains of institutional purpose, social context and engagement, pedagogical practice, curricular design, and research focus. Our work contributes to the literature on business education for sustainability and the business-society-nature nexus. We explore and apply key ESS findings and concepts, discuss normative implications of these ideas, and offer guidance on transformational pathways for business schools and ME.

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Robati, Maryam, and Fatemeh Rezaei. "Applying the Sustainability Barometer Approach to Assess Urban Sustainability." Urban Science 6, no. 4 (November 30, 2022): 85. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/urbansci6040085.

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Sustainability is a multidisciplinary developing science, and sustainable urban development focuses on socioeconomic, cultural, and environmental dimensions. Sustainable urban development is considered as a form of development covering urban spaces. Therefore, sustainability is regarded as one of the most important issues in urban planning. The present study aims to evaluate urban sustainability in nine regions of Tehran’s District 4 using the barometer of sustainability. The study area, covering twenty populous areas with various socioeconomic, cultural, and environmental problems, is located in the northeast of Tehran. The results obtained from overall sustainability and Prescott-Allen ranking indicate that regions 7, 6, 2, 3, and 8 are in medium sustainability level with the scores of 0.492, 0.484, 0.471, 0.411, and 0.457 respectively. However, other regions including regions 9, 1, 4 and 5 with the scores of 0.370, 0.330, 0.281 and 0.274, respectively, were found to be potentially unsustainable. In terms of human and ecosystem well-being, regions 2 and 3 gained the highest score, and regions 9 and 5 had the lowest scores. Based on the results, some practical solutions were provided to improve the sustainability in the area.

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Clark, William C. "Planetary Malpractice." Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development 47, no. 9 (November 2005): i. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00139157.2005.10721882.

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