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Journal / article | 2015
Cornell, S. 2015. The approaching Great Transformation: Toward a liveable post carbon economy. Journal of Critical Realism 14: 439–440.
Book chapter | 2014
Cornell S.E. 2014. Assessment and characterisation of the organic component of atmospheric nitrogen deposition. In: Nitrogen Deposition, Critical Loads and Biodiversity, M.A. Sutton, K.E. Mason, L.J. Sheppard, H. Sverdrup, R. Haeuber, W.K. Hicks (eds.) Springer, 107-116
The organic component of atmospheric reactive nitrogen is known to be important for biogeochemical cycles, climate and ecosystems, but it is still not routinely assessed in atmospheric deposition studies, and most worldwide air quality monitoring networks disregard it. The available jigsaw puzzle pieces of knowledge from diverse sources can now give a richer picture of global patterns of organic nitrogen deposition. This ef...
Journal / article | 2014
Mace G.M., B. Reyers, R. Alkemade, R. Biggs, F.S. Chapin, S.E. Cornell, S. Díaz, S. Jennings, P. Leadley, P.J. Mumby, A. Purvis, R.J. Scholes, A.W.R. Seddon, M. Solan, W. Steffen, G. Woodward 2014. Approaches to defining a planetary boundary for biodiversity. Global Environmental Change, 28, 289-297
The idea that there is an identifiable set of boundaries, beyond which anthropogenic change will put the Earth system outside a safe operating space for humanity, is attracting interest in the scientific community and gaining support in the environmental policy world. Rockstrom et al. (2009) identify nine such boundaries and highlight biodiversity loss as being the single boundary where current rates of extinction put the Eart...
Dearing, J.A., R. Wang, K. Zhang, J.G. Dyke, H. Haberl, M.S. Hossain, P.G. Langdon, T.M. Lenton, K. Raworth, S. Brown, J. Carstensen, M.J. Cole, S.E. Cornell, T.P. Dawson, C.P. Doncaster, F. Eigenbrod, M. Flörke, E. Jeffers, A.W. Mackay, B. Nykvist, G.M. Poppy 2014. Safe and just operating spaces for regional social-ecological systems. Global Environmental Change, 28, 227-238
Humanity faces a major global challenge in achieving wellbeing for all, while simultaneously ensuring that the biophysical processes and ecosystem services that underpin wellbeing are exploited within scientifically informed boundaries of sustainability. We propose a framework for defining the safe and just operating space for humanity that integrates social wellbeing into the original planetary boundaries concept (Rockström...
Policy brief or report | 2014
Ituarte-Lima, C., Schultz, M., Hahn, McDermott, C., and Cornell, S., 2014, Biodiversity financing and safeguards: lessons learned and proposed guidelines. Stockholm: SwedBio/Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University. Information Document UNEP/CBD/COP/12/INF/27 for the 12th Conference of the Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity in Pyeongchang Korea
This policy report examines the notion of safeguards in biodiversity financing mechanisms (BFMs) under the Convention on Biological Diversity, in order to inform discussions in CBD-COP12. It explores key elements in the process of scaling-up biodiversity financing for achieving the CBD objectives. It is a result of a lengthy and collaborative process which has benefited from inputs and comments from Parties and other relevan...
Policy brief or report | 2013
Elmqvist T, Cornell S, Öhman MC, Daw T, Moberg F, Norström A, Persson Å, Peterson G, Rockström J, Schultz M, Hermansson-Török E. 2013. Global sustainability and Human prosperity – contribution to the Post-2015 agenda and the development of Sustainable Development Goals - TemaNord report (Nordic Council of Ministers), pp 50
Journal / article | 2013
Björn Nykvist, Åsa Persson, Fredrik Moberg, Linn Persson, Sarah Cornell, Johan Rockström. 2013. National Environmental Performance on Planetary Boundaries, The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, ISBN: 978-91-620-6576-8
This study was commissioned by the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency and carried out by the Stockholm Resilience Centre and the Stockholm Environment Institute. The purpose is to test whether the concept of planetary boundaries (PBs), as defined by Rockström et al. (2009ab), in different ways could reflect the international dimension of Sweden's national environmental quality objectives. Using planetary boundaries as a ...
Sarah Cornell, Frans Berkhout, Willemijn Tuinstra, J. David Tàbara, Jill Jäger, Ilan Chabay, Bert de Wit, Richard Langlais, David Mills, Peter Moll, Ilona M. Otto, Arthur Petersen, Christian Pohl, Lorrae van Kerkhoff, Opening up knowledge systems for better responses to global environmental change, Environmental Science & Policy, Volume 28, April 2013, Pages 60-70, ISSN 1462-9011, 10.1016/j.envsci.2012.11.008.
Linking knowledge with action for effective societal responses to persistent problems of unsustainability requires transformed, more open knowledge systems. Drawing on a broad range of academic and practitioner experience, we outline a vision for the coordination and organization of knowledge systems that are better suited to the complex challenges of sustainability than the ones currently in place. This transformation include...
Jickells T, Baker AR, Cape JN, Cornell SE, Nemitz E. 2013 The cycling of organic nitrogen through the atmosphere. Phil Trans R Soc B 368: 20130115
Atmospheric organic nitrogen (ON) appears to be a ubiquitous but poorly understood component of the atmospheric nitrogen deposition flux. Here, we focus on the ON components that dominate deposition and do not consider reactive atmospheric gases containing ON such as peroxyacyl nitrates that are important in atmospheric nitrogen transport, but are probably not particularly important in deposition. We first review the approac...
Book chapter | 2013
Cornell, S. 2013. Social science perspectives on natural hazards risk and uncertainty. In: J. Rougier, S. Sparks and L. Hill (eds.). Risk and Uncertainty Assessment for Natural Hazards. Cambridge University Press
This is a chapter which is part of a book that provides a state-of-the-art overview of risk and uncertainty assessment in natural hazards. It presents the core statistical concepts using clearly defined terminology applicable across all types of natural hazards and addresses the full range of sources of uncertainty, the role of expert judgement and the practice of uncertainty elicitation. The core of the book provides detailed...
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