Anthropocene risk

A safe operating space for humanity

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Catastrophic shifts in ecosystems

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The rising tide: assessing the risks of climate change and human settlements in low elevation coastal zones

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The velocity of climate change

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When Multiplication Doesn't Equal Quick Addition: Examining Intersectionality as a Research Paradigm

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Approaching a state shift in Earth’s biosphere

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The global groundwater crisis

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Globally networked risks and how to respond

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Framing Sustainability in a Telecoupled World

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Origin and fate of atmospheric moisture over continents

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Groundwater depletion embedded in international food trade

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Sea-level rise due to polar ice-sheet mass loss during past warm periods

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Social-ecological systems as complex adaptive systems: modeling and policy implications

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Does aquaculture add resilience to the global food system?

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Farmer adaptation, change and ‘crisis’ in the Sahel

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Cascading regime shifts within and across scales

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IPCC reasons for concern regarding climate change risks

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Earth system governance: a research framework

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Looming Global-Scale Failures and Missing Institutions

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Food production shocks across land and sea

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Assessing climate change impacts on sorghum and millet yields in the Sudanian and Sahelian savannas of West Africa

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More rapid and severe disease outbreaks for aquaculture at the tropics: implications for food security

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Transnational Corporations as ‘Keystone Actors’ in Marine Ecosystems

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Policy design for the Anthropocene

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Unpacking factors influencing antimicrobial use in global aquaculture and their implication for management: a review from a systems perspective

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Synchronous failure: the emerging causal architecture of global crisis

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The emergence of global systemic risk

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Slavery scandals: Unpacking labour challenges and policy responses within the off-shore fisheries sector

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Sea-Level Rise by 2100

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Corporate control and global governance of marine genetic resources

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Resilience offers escape from trapped thinking on poverty alleviation

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Finance and the Earth system – Exploring the links between financial actors and non-linear changes in the climate system

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Inequality and the Biosphere

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Tiered Approach to Resilience Assessment

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Asian irrigation, African rain: Remote impacts of irrigation

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Contagious exploitation of marine resources

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When Ecosystem Services Crash: Preparing for Big, Fast, Patchy Climate Change

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Rethinking Global Environmental Law and Governance in the Anthropocene

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The Ethical Implications of Sea-Level Rise Due to Climate Change

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Towards an integrated approach of disaster and environment management: A case study of Thua Thien Hue province, central Viet Nam

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Ch. 1: Our Globally Changing Climate. Climate Science Special Report: Fourth National Climate Assessment, Volume I

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Global Governance Dimensions of Globally Networked Risks: The State of the Art in Social Science Research

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Biophysical and Biogeochemical Responses to Climate Change Depend on Dispersal and Migration

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Oil Palm Plantations and Transboundary Haze: Patronage Networks and Land Licensing in Indonesia’s Peatlands

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Dealing with femtorisks in international relations

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Exploring appropriate livelihood alternatives for sustainable rangeland management

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The study of futures, and the analysis of power

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Power in Global Agriculture: Economics, Politics, and Natural Resources

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Our future in the Anthropocene biosphere

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Global polycrisis: the causal mechanisms of crisis entanglement

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Sustainability Science: Toward a Synthesis

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Anatomy and resilience of the global production ecosystem

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Big Data in Earth system science and progress towards a digital twin

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Improving companies' impacts on sustainable development: A nexus approach to the SDGS

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Radical changes are needed for transformations to a good Anthropocene

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Urbanization in and for the Anthropocene

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Biodiversity loss and climate change interactions: financial stability implications for central banks and financial supervisors

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Scientists' warning on extreme wildfire risks to water supply

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Integrating the Water Planetary Boundary With Water Management From Local to Global Scales

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Sustainability and bank risk

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Increasing maximum lake surface temperature under climate change

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Mapping the environmental footprints of nations partnering the Belt and Road Initiative

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Exploring Alternative Futures in the Anthropocene

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Towards a better future for biodiversity and people: Modelling Nature Futures

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Evolution of the polycrisis: Anthropocene traps that challenge global sustainability

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Challenges and perspectives for the Brazilian semi-arid coast under global environmental changes

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The Anthropocene condition: evolving through social–ecological transformations

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Shaping a resilient future in response to COVID-19

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What are social-ecological systems and social-ecological systems research?

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Resilience: Now more than ever

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Transnational corporations, biosphere stewardship, and sustainable futures

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Decision-making under the deep uncertainty of climate change: The psychological and political agency of narratives

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Recognizing ecosystem service's contribution to SDGs: Ecological foundation of sustainable development

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Mapping the field of microbial fuel cell: A quantitative literature review (1970–2020)

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Governance in the Face of Extreme Events: Lessons from Evolutionary Processes for Structuring Interventions, and the Need to Go Beyond

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Future-proofing ecosystem restoration through enhancing adaptive capacity

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Geography in the Anthropocene: Transforming our world for sustainable development

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Elaborating a systems methodology for cascading climate change impacts and implications

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Comparative capitalisms in the Anthropocene: a research agenda for green transition

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Can China achieve ecological sustainability? An LMDI analysis of ecological footprint and economic development decoupling

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Driving mechanisms and threshold identification of landscape ecological risk: A nonlinear perspective from the Qilian Mountains, China

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Socio-ecological Interactions in a Changing Climate: A Review of the Mongolian Pastoral System

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Transient social–ecological dynamics reveal signals of decoupling in a highly disturbed Anthropocene landscape

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Enhancing systems thinking in corporate sustainability through a transdisciplinary research process

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Woody-biomass projections and drivers of change in sub-Saharan Africa

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Dynamic assessment of ecological sustainability and the associated driving factors in Tibet and its cities

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Making Resilient Decisions for Sustainable Circularity of Fashion

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Adapting risk assessments for a complex future

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Elements of a Planetary Emergency: Environment of Peace (Part 1)

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