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Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet
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The planetary boundaries framework defines a safe operating space for humanity based on the intrinsic biophysical processes that regulate the stability of the E...
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The declining uptake rate of atmospheric CO2 by land and ocean sinks
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Through 1959–2012, an airborne fraction (AF) of 0.44 of total anthropogenic CO2 emissions remained in the atmosphere, with the rest being taken up by land and...
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Scaling up from gardens: biodiversity conservation in urban environments
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As urbanisation increases globally and the natural environment becomes increasingly fragmented, the importance of urban green spaces for biodiversity conservati...
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Conservation Easements and Climate Change
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The current law of conservation easements does not recognize the full potential for carbon capture.
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CONSERVATION EASEMENTS AT THE CLIMATE CHANGE CROSSROADS
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This article examines the conundrum that occurs when climate change leads to a landscape that conflicts with conservation easement terms. In facing the challeng...
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Conservation easements and global climate change
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Land conservation is necessary to combat the ills of climate change and environmental degradation. The warming of the climate system is unequivocal. The Intergo...
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The Use of Conservation Easements in Adapting Conservation to a Changing Climate
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Rally 2009: The National Land Conservation Conference Portland, Oregon
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Rethinking Private Land Conservation in the Face of Climate Change: A California Case Study & Future Options
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This Article looks at how private land conservation may need to be rethought in the face of climate change, with a particular emphasis on the protection of biod...
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Expanding options for habitat conservation outside protected areas in Kenya: The use of environmental easements
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This paper examines wildlife conservation in Kenya on land outside protected areas. It presents a context within which environmental easements as a mechanism to...
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Warming caused by cumulative carbon emissions towards the trillionth tonne
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We find that the peak warming caused by a given cumulative carbon dioxide emission is better constrained than the warming response to a stabilization scenario. ...
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Creation of a Gilded Trap by the High Economic Value of the Maine Lobster Fishery
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Unsustainable fishing simplifies food chains and, as with aquaculture, can result in reliance on a few economically valuable species. This lack of diversity may...
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Social traps and environmental policy
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I argue that all the environmental problems mentioned above (and many other social problems) belong to a category of phenomenon called social traps (Platt 1973)...
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The 2 °C dream
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Countries have pledged to limit global warming to 2 °C, and climate models say that is still possible. But only with heroic — and unlikely — efforts.
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A ‘perfect’ agreement in Paris is not essential
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Success at the latest climate talks will be a recognition by the world’s nations that incremental change will not do the job, says Johan Rockström.
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After the talks
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The real business of decarbonization begins after an agreement is signed at the Paris climate conference, argue David G. Victor and James P. Leape.
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Social Traps
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A new area of study is the field that some of us are beginning to call social traps. The term refers to situations in society that contain traps formally like a...
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A SOCIAL TRAP ANALYSIS OF THE LOS ANGELES STORM DRAIN SYSTEM: A RATIONALE FOR INTERVENTIONS
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The principles of analyzing social traps can be used to devise intervention strategies for the problems of toxic and solid waste dumping into the Los Angeles st...
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The Historical Dynamics of Social–Ecological Traps
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Environmental degradation is a typical unintended outcome of collective human behavior. Hardin’s metaphor of the ‘‘tragedy of the commons’’ has become...
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Ecosystem services: Foundations, opportunities, and challenges for the forest products sector
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From the text: A social trap (7) is created when economic markets cannot efficiently or equitably deal with common pool resources (Hardin, 1968), which is often...
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Asynchronous Online Foresight Panels: The Case of Wildfire Management
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Framing the wildfire situation as a social trap emerged early in the Round 1 discussion and this topic was deemed important enough to merit its own discussion t...
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