• DOI:10.1126/SCIENCE.1227620
Corpus ID: 128815842

A Measurable Planetary Boundary for the Biosphere

@article{Running2012AMP,
  title={A Measurable Planetary Boundary for the Biosphere},
  author={S. W. Running},
  journal={Science},
  year={2012},
  volume={337},
  pages={1458 - 1459}
}

S. W. Running

Published 2012

Environmental Science

Science

Terrestrial net primary (plant) production provides a measurable boundary for human consumption of Earth's biological resources. Forty years ago, Meadows et al. published a landmark first analysis of global limits to human activity (1). Based on a primitive computer model of the Earth system, they concluded that by the early decades of the 21st century, tangible limits to key global resources would begin to emerge. A reanalysis of the original results in 2008 found that the original global… CONTINUE READING

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