Authors
Frank Biermann, Kenneth Abbott, Steinar Andresen, Karin Bäckstrand, Steven Bernstein, Michele M Betsill, Harriet Bulkeley, Benjamin Cashore, Jennifer Clapp, Carl Folke, Aarti Gupta, Joyeeta Gupta, Peter M Haas, Andrew Jordan, Norichika Kanie, Tatiana Kluvánková-Oravská, Louis Lebel, Diana Liverman, James Meadowcroft, Ronald B Mitchell, Peter Newell, Sebastian Oberthür, Lennart Olsson, Philipp Pattberg, Roberto Sánchez-Rodríguez, Heike Schroeder, Arild Underdal, S Camargo Vieira, Coleen Vogel, Oran R Young, Andrea Brock, Ruben Zondervan
Publication date
2012/3/16
Journal
Science
Volume
335
Issue
6074
Pages
1306-1307
Publisher
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Description
Science assessments indicate that human activities are moving several of Earth's sub-systems outside the range of natural variability typical for the previous 500,000 years (, ). Human societies must now change course and steer away from critical tipping points in the Earth system that might lead to rapid and irreversible change . This requires fundamental reorientation and restructuring of national and international institutions toward more effective Earth system governance and planetary stewardship.
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