Our future in the Anthropocene biosphere
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5771970 |
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| Authors | Carl Folke (0000-0002-4050-3281, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, corresponding author), Stephen Polasky (0000-0003-4934-2434), Johan Rockström (0000-0001-8988-2983), Victor Galaz (0000-0002-7303-8849), Frances Westley, M Lamont (0000-0002-0221-0402), Marten Scheffer (0000-0002-2100-0312), Henrik Österblom (0000-0002-1913-5197), R Carpenter (0000-0001-8097-8700), Stephen R Carpenter, F Stuart Chapin (0000-0002-2558-9910), Karen C Seto (0000-0002-4928-2446), Elke U Weber (0000-0002-1678-3631), Beatrice Crona (0000-0003-1617-4067), Beatrice I Crona, Gretchen C Daily (0000-0003-1443-1111), Partha Dasgupta, Owen Gaffney (0000-0001-6244-991X), Line Gordon (0000-0002-3520-4340), Line J Gordon, Holger Hoff (0000-0001-9655-8655), Simon A Levin (0000-0002-8216-5639), Jane Lubchenco (0000-0003-3540-5879), Will Steffen (0000-0003-1163-6736), Brian Walker (0000-0002-9136-3055), Brian H Walker |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 834-869 |
| Publication date | 2021-03-14 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | AMBIO (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0044-7447 • E-ISSN: 1654-7209 |
| Publisher | Springer Science+Business Media (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s13280-021-01544-8 |
| PMID | 33715097 |
| OpenAlex | W3136594673 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 145 |
| References cited | 310 |
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 transformative change towards sustainable futures. Emerging technologies, social innovations, broader shifts in cultural repertoires, as well as a diverse portfolio of active stewardship of human actions in support of a resilient biosphere are highlighted as essential parts of such transformations
Anthropocene · Earth system science · Resilience · Surprise · Ecosystem dynamics and resilience · Innovation, Sustainability, Human-Machine Systems
Integrating livelihood resilience theory and agent-based modelling to evaluate post-resettlement adaptation in China's Yellow River Floodplain
Relationscapes of Extinction, and More Life
Using long-term data to inform a decision pathway for restoration of ecosystem resilience
Resilience and coastal governance
National environmental programs and local social-ecological system change in dryland China
The evolution of social-ecological systems (SES) research
To split a stone
Evaluating multilevel resilience of Russian urban economies 2010-2019
Indigenous Environmentalism through Dance
Safe and just Earth system boundaries
Sustainable futures
Conservation agriculture
Buffering Climate Change with Nature
Understanding and governing global systemic crises in the 21st century
The Control–Entropy Paradox
Transformation design” — komunikacja — normalność. Propozycja połączenia różnych stanowisk na tle wyzwań kryzysu klimatycznego oraz idei postwzrostu
Deep Dive Into Sustainable Development Goals Through the Lens of Triple Bottom Line
Interdisciplinary collaboration for sustainability science
Implementing interdisciplinary sustainability education with the food-energy-water (FEW) nexus
Applying environmental attitudes of pre-service preschool teachers scale and its subscales to investigate the environmental attitudes of pre-service preschool teachers using the Rasch psychometric approach
Education for sustainable development in physical education
Grand (meta) challenges in planetary health
More than a buzzword? Mapping interpretations of the ‘polycrisis’
Nature-based solutions (NbS) and climate change adaptation in Bangladesh
Assessing the provisions for sustainability in economics degree programmes
The Biodiversity Crisis – Planning for Nature Recovery
Heritage and landscape narratives
Sustainable circular cities? Analysing urban circular economy policies in Amsterdam, Glasgow, and Copenhagen
Co‐exploring relational heuristics for sustainability transitions towards more resilient and just Anthropocene futures
Policy design for resilience? An assessment of the bioeconomy policy mix addressing the maize bio-based production system in Italy
Introduction
Interlaced Strands of Change
Planning Ecologically Just Cities
A threatened heritage
Perceptions of preparedness to address climate change threats in the western Indian Ocean
Vital triangle
Key factors to enhance efficacy of 3D digital environments for transformative landscape and urban planning
Conceptualising Sustainability as the Pursuit of Life
Geodiversity and resilience
Bridging biodiversity and regenerative development
Diagnosing irreducible uncertainty for adaptive environmental management
Homiletical-liturgical Perspectives on Life in the Anthropocene
Human-nature resonance in times of social-ecological crisis – a relational account for sustainability transformation
The programme on ecosystem change and society (Pecs) – a decade of deepening social-ecological research through a place-based focus
A mixed method evaluation of ecosystem services and services-to-ecosystems illuminates culturally important trees in a settled landscape
Fostering transdisciplinary research for equitable and sustainable development pathways across Africa
Global knowledge–action networks at the frontlines of sustainability
Disentangling the complexity of human–nature interactions
Dharma-based economic systems, policy and sustainable development goals
Integrating sustainability in the economics curriculum
Modelling looming futures. Will thoughts become actions
The social-ecological learning framework
Indigenous Political Ecology
Integrating environmental memories to address environmental changes
Implementation lags
Unlocking and accelerating transformations to the SDGs
Artificial intelligence, systemic risks, and sustainability
Earth altruism
Transforming forest management through rewilding
Inclusive conservation and the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework
Toward a holistic understanding of pastoralism
The Anthropocene reality of financial risk
Global environmental governance in times of turbulence
Redefining Arctic boundaries in a changing climate
Biodynamic farming research and transdisciplinary knowledge co-production
Foraging and Biocultural Capital
Governing marine cloud brightening for ecosystem conservation under a warming climate
Shaping a resilient future in response to Covid-19
Mainstreaming regenerative dynamics for sustainability
Response diversity as a sustainability strategy
Mapping the irrecoverable carbon in Earth’s ecosystems
Shifting expectations – how the responsibility for the habitability of the planet is shifting
Critical Transitions in Ecosystems and Society. The Contribution of Sociological Systems Theory to the Analysis of Socio-Environmental Transformations
Beyond free trade in raw materials
Reclaiming the wind
Lifecycle social impacts of lithium-ion batteries
Taming Gaia 2.0
Serious games and citizen science; from parallel pathways to greater synergies
Environmental behaviours within ecological and social limits
A resilience-based transformations approach to peacebuilding and transformative justice
Tracing the evolution of natural capital in global sustainability metrics
From hegemony-reinforcing to hegemony-transcending transformations
Synergies
Leveraging inner sustainability through cross-cultural learning
Holistic eco-social imaginaries for a life-centered future
Can market-based social and environmental due diligence drive development? Examining local development challenges and responsible sourcing among agri-food businesses in low-and-middle-income economies
Amplifying actions for food system transformation
Understanding the governance of sustainability pathways
Preservation, modernization, and transformation
Transforming dichotomous thinking
Reimagining community and communication as transformative capacities for climate and environmental action
Surging Biojustice Environmentalism from Below
Exploring different framings of nature-based solutions with respect to governance, and citizen participation, beneficiaries, and quality of life outcomes
Nature futures for the urban century
The lived experiences of transformations
From control to care
Participatory scenario planning
Decolonizing Tropical Environments
Two concepts of apocalypse and apocalyptic history today
Ethics of evaluation for socio-ecological transformation
Shock Waves
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Get the science right when paying for nature's services
Navigating transformations in governance of Chilean marine coastal resources
Natural climate solutions
Sociotechnical transitions for deep decarbonization
Transformational adaptation when incremental adaptations to climate change are insufficient
Nested and teleconnected vulnerabilities to environmental change
Deep learning and process understanding for data-driven Earth system science
Urban land teleconnections and sustainability
Crafting usable knowledge for sustainable development
Paying for Ecosystem Services—Promise and Peril
A population-based cohort study of socio-demographic risk factors for Covid-19 deaths in Sweden
Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink
Increasing homogeneity in global food supplies and the implications for food security
Harnessing global fisheries to tackle micronutrient deficiencies
Trophic Downgrading of Planet Earth
Co-Producing Sustainability
A Global Map of Human Impact on Marine Ecosystems
Approaching a state shift in Earth’s biosphere
Global mismatch between greenhouse gas emissions and the burden of climate change
General Resilience to Cope with Extreme Events
Systems integration for global sustainability
Sustainability Science
Improvements in ecosystem services from investments in natural capital
Environmental governance for all
Climate tipping points — too risky to bet against
Linking the influence and dependence of people on biodiversity across scales
Landscapes that work for biodiversity and people
Climate and atmospheric history of the past 420,000 years from the Vostok ice core, Antarctica
Rebuilding marine life
The Value of Nature and the Nature of Value
Rebuilding Global Fisheries
Unexpectedly large impact of forest management and grazing on global vegetation biomass
Stewardship as a boundary object for sustainability research
Rewilding complex ecosystems
Cascading regime shifts within and across scales
Natural capital and ecosystem services informing decisions
The biomass distribution on Earth
Has land use pushed terrestrial biodiversity beyond the planetary boundary? A global assessment
Navigating complexity through knowledge coproduction
Social-ecological systems as complex adaptive systems
High resilience in the Yamal-Nenets social–ecological system, West Siberian Arctic, Russia
Regime Shifts, Resilience, and Biodiversity in Ecosystem Management
Globally networked risks and how to respond
Amazon Tipping Point
Global Carbon Budget 2020
The crisis of democracy and the science of deliberation
Anatomy and resilience of the global production ecosystem
Getting the measure of ecosystem services
Impacts of Biodiversity Loss on Ocean Ecosystem Services
Original Articles
The rise of social bots
Response diversity, ecosystem change, and resilience
Bright spots
Integrating local and scientific knowledge for environmental management
Global Environmental Governance
Scaling Out, Scaling Up, Scaling Deep
Navigating the Anthropocene
The amount of carbon released from peat and forest fires in Indonesia during 1997
The impact of climate change on smallholder and subsistence agriculture
A roadmap for rapid decarbonization
Global Resilience of Tropical Forest and Savanna to Critical Transitions
Anticipating Critical Transitions
Transnational Corporations as ‘Keystone Actors’ in Marine Ecosystems
Net national product, wealth, and social well-being
Wealth Inequality in the United States since 1913
Equity and sustainability in the Anthropocene
Women and fisheries
Adaptive governance, ecosystem management, and natural capital
Beyond agricultural innovation systems? Exploring an agricultural innovation ecosystems approach for niche design and development in sustainability transitions
Paris Agreement climate proposals need a boost to keep warming well below 2 °C
Connectivity and the Governance of Multilevel Social-Ecological Systems
Transnational corporations and the challenge of biosphere stewardship
Putting people in the map
Sustainability Transitions Research
Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene
Emergence, institutionalization and renewal
Toward Principles for Enhancing the Resilience of Ecosystem Services
Effects of Biodiversity on Ecosystem Functioning
The future of food from the sea
Social-Ecological Systems Insights for Navigating the Dynamics of the Anthropocene
Environmental Stewardship
Pervasive human-driven decline of life on Earth points to the need for transformative change
Whose conservation?
Global modeling of nature’s contributions to people
Global human-made mass exceeds all living biomass
Global forecasts of urban expansion to 2030 and direct impacts on biodiversity and carbon pools
A diagnostic approach for going beyond panaceas
Food in the Anthropocene
Assessing nature's contributions to people
Adaptive Governance of Social-Ecological Systems
Global land use change, economic globalization, and the looming land scarcity
Knowledge systems for sustainable development
Planetary boundaries
A safe operating space for humanity
Pursuit of the common good
Closing the high seas to fishing
Polycentric systems for coping with collective action and global environmental change
In search of the ‘we’ of social media activism
| Unique citing works | 145 |
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| Citations per year | 29 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 136 |