Autores
Carl Folke, Stephen Polasky, Johan Rockström, Victor Galaz, Frances Westley, Michèle Lamont, Marten Scheffer, Henrik Österblom, Stephen R Carpenter, F Stuart Chapin, Karen C Seto, Elke U Weber, Beatrice I Crona, Gretchen C Daily, Partha Dasgupta, Owen Gaffney, Line J Gordon, Holger Hoff, Simon A Levin, Jane Lubchenco, Will Steffen, Brian H Walker
Fecha de publicación
2021/4
Origen
Ambio
Volumen
50
Páginas
834-869
Editor
Springer Netherlands
Descripción
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed an interconnected and tightly coupled globalized world in rapid change. This article sets the scientific stage for understanding and responding to such change for global sustainability and resilient societies. We provide a systemic overview of the current situation where people and nature are dynamically intertwined and embedded in the biosphere, placing shocks and extreme events as part of this dynamic; humanity has become the major force in shaping the future of the Earth system as a whole; and the scale and pace of the human dimension have caused climate change, rapid loss of biodiversity, growing inequalities, and loss of resilience to deal with uncertainty and surprise. Taken together, human actions are challenging the biosphere foundation for a prosperous development of civilizations. The Anthropocene reality—of rising system-wide turbulence—calls for …
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