Reconciling safe planetary targets and planetary justice: Why should social scientists engage with planetary targets?

As human activity threatens to make the planet unsafe for humanity and other life forms, scholars are identifying planetary targets set at a safe distance from biophysical thresholds beyond which critical Earth systems may collapse. Yet despite the profound implications that both meeting and transgr...

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Main Authors: J. Gupta, D. Liverman, X. Bai, C. Gordon, M. Hurlbert, C.Y.A. Inoue, L. Jacobson, N. Kanie, T.M. Lenton, D. Obura, I.M. Otto, C. Okereke, L. Pereira, K. Prodani, C. Rammelt, J. Scholtens, J.D. Tàbara, P.H. Verburg, L. Gifford, D. Ciobanu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-12-01
Series:Earth System Governance
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589811621000264