Living well within the limits of our planet – how can the Planetary Boundaries help operationalize this vision for Europe?

The document introduces a study that applies the Planetary Boundaries framework—which sets quantitative limits on human perturbation of Earth system processes to avoid irreversible environmental change—to the EU-28. It specifically focuses on disaggregating and benchmarking boundaries for climate change, biosphere integrity, land systems change, freshwater use, biogeochemical flows, and novel entities.

• The Planetary Boundaries framework establishes quantitative limits for human impact on Earth system processes to define a global "safe operating space," noting that exceeding these boundaries globally increases the risk of abrupt or irreversible environmental changes.
• The study performs an initial analysis of disaggregation, allocation, and benchmarking for the EU-28 across six specific planetary boundaries: climate change, biosphere integrity, land systems change, freshwater use, biogeochemical flows (nitrogen and phosphorus), and novel entities (chemical pollution).

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2018). Living well within the limits of our planet – how can the Planetary Boundaries help operationalize this vision for Europe? https://www.sei.org/publications/operationalizing-concept-safe-operating-space-eu/

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Living well within the limits of our planet – how can the Planetary Boundaries help operationalize this vision for Europe? 2018. https://www.sei.org/publications/operationalizing-concept-safe-operating-space-eu/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2018living, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Living well within the limits of our planet – how can the Planetary Boundaries help operationalize this vision for Europe?}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2018}, month = jul, url = {https://www.sei.org/publications/operationalizing-concept-safe-operating-space-eu/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }