Feeding the world in a narrowing safe operating space

One Earth ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (9) ◽  
pp. 1193-1196
Author(s):  
Dieter Gerten ◽  
Matti Kummu
Keyword(s):  
The World ◽  
Operating Space ◽  
Safe Operating

A digital contract for restoration of the Earth System mediated by a Planetary Boundary Exchange Unit

2021 ◽  
pp. 205301962098727
Author(s):  
Orfeu Bertolami ◽  
Frederico Francisco
Keyword(s):  
Earth System ◽  
New Governance ◽  
Validation Process ◽  
Operational Conditions ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Optimal Functioning ◽  
Operating Space ◽  
Exchange Unit ◽  
Safe Operating

In this paper, we propose a new governance paradigm for managing the Earth System based on a digital contract inspired on blockchain technology. This proposal allows for a radical decentralisation of the procedures of controlling, maintaining and restoring ecosystems by a set of networks willing to engage in improving the operational conditions of local ecosystems so to contribute to an optimal functioning of the Earth System. These procedures are aimed to improve local Planetary Boundary parameters so that they approach the optimal Holocene reference values, the so-called Safe Operating Space, via a reciprocal validation process and an exchange unit that internalises the state of the Earth System.

scholarly journals Aboriginal Tourism as Sustainable Social-Environmental Enterprise (SSEE): A Tlingit Case Study from Southeast Alaska

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paphaphit Wanasuk ◽  
Thomas F Thornton
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Southeast Alaska ◽  
Operational Strategies ◽  
Cultural Sustainability ◽  
Operating Space ◽  
Social Environmental ◽  
Short Time ◽  
Safe Operating ◽  
Dominant Influence

The Tlingit Aboriginal tourism enterprise named Icy Strait Point in Hoonah, Southeast Alaska is used as a case study to develop the new concept of Sustainable Social-Environmental Enterprise (SSEE). SSEE is defined as an innovative enterprise that has dynamic operational strategies while still maintaining its corporate core values and integrating social, environmental, cultural, economic and political (SECEP) sustainabilities in its operations. The SSEE framework assesses enterprises according to five domains of sustainability: social, environmental, cultural, economic, and political. Applying this framework, we find that while social, economic, and cultural sustainability goals have been achieved in a relatively short time by the Aboriginal tourism enterprise in Hoonah, the political and environmental spheres of sustainability are constrained by the dominant influence of the multinational cruise ship industry over tourism development. Thus, for an emerging tourism enterprise to be sustainable, we suggest each of these livelihood dimensions needs to achieve "a safe operating space" that is adaptable over time and to changing social and environmental circumstances.

scholarly journals Planetary Boundaries: Exploring the Safe Operating Space for Humanity

2009 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Johan Rockström ◽  
Will Steffen ◽  
Kevin Noone ◽  
Åsa Persson ◽  
F. Stuart III Chapin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Planetary Boundaries ◽  
Operating Space ◽  
Safe Operating

scholarly journals Food for thought: pretty good multispecies yield

2016 ◽  
Vol 74 (2) ◽  
pp. 475-486 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Rindorf ◽  
Catherine Mary Dichmont ◽  
Phillip S. Levin ◽  
Pamela Mace ◽  
Sean Pascoe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fisheries Management ◽  
Single Species ◽  
Maximum Sustainable Yield ◽  
Social Benefits ◽  
Sustainable Yield ◽  
Average Yield ◽  
Operational Management ◽  
Operating Space ◽  
Management Advice ◽  
Safe Operating

Abstract MSY principles for marine fisheries management reflect a focus on obtaining continued high catches to provide food and livelihoods for humanity, while not compromising ecosystems. However, maintaining healthy stocks to provide the maximum sustainable yield on a single-species basis does not ensure that broader ecosystem, economic, and social objectives are addressed. We investigate how the principles of a “pretty good yield” range of fishing mortalities assumed to provide >95% of the average yield for a single stock can be expanded to a pretty good multispecies yield (PGMY) space and further to pretty good multidimensional yield to accommodate situations where the yield from a stock affects the ecosystem, economic and social benefits, or sustainability. We demonstrate in a European example that PGMY is a practical concept. As PGMY provides a safe operating space for management that adheres to the principles of MSY, it allows the consideration of other aspects to be included in operational management advice in both data-rich and data-limited situations. PGMY furthermore provides a way to integrate advice across stocks, avoiding clearly infeasible management combinations, and thereby hopefully increasing confidence in scientific advice.

scholarly journals Social Policy Without Growth: Moving Towards Sustainable Welfare States

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Max Koch
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Operating Space ◽  
Historical Role ◽  
Environmental Limits ◽  
Safe Operating

Growth-dependent welfare states contribute to climate emergency. The ecological economics, degrowth, and sustainable welfare literatures demonstrate that to re-embed Western production and consumption patterns in environmental limits, an encompassing social-ecological transformation would need to be initiated very soon. This article focuses on the potential roles of the welfare state and social policy in this transformation, applying the concepts of ‘sustainable welfare’ and ‘safe-operating space’. Based on two Swedish studies, it also provides an empirical analysis of the popularity of selected eco-social policies designed to steer the economy and society towards this space: maximum and basic incomes, taxes on wealth and meat, as well as working time reductions. In analogy to the historical role of the state in reconstituting the welfare-work nexus in the post-WWII era and its present engagement in the context of the Covid-19 crisis, it is argued that a more interventionist state is required to grapple with climate emergency.

The Right to Food and the Planetary Boundaries Framework

2017 ◽  
Vol 100 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-24
Author(s):  
Wiebina Heesterman
Keyword(s):  
Human Beings ◽  
Planetary Boundaries ◽  
Right To Food ◽  
Cultural Rights ◽  
Natural Processes ◽  
Operating Space ◽  
Legal Entitlement ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Safe Operating

The ‘Right to Food’ is a legal entitlement owed to all human beings established in international law more than half a century ago. Fulfilment of the right has been entrusted to states parties to the 1966 International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). However, in practice, the right is often breached because of hostility or indifference from individuals or institutions refusing access to provisions, or because of vicissitudes of nature. Adverse impacts due to human interference in natural processes are increasingly noticeable in the area of food production. These processes have been classified into nine distinct categories, all of which need be kept within certain margins, so-called ‘Planetary Boundaries’, which delineate a safe operating space for humanity. This paper discusses the impact each of these human-induced developments has on the provision of food as well as the other way round and what the consequences would be if the boundaries were exceeded. Yet there are means of keeping the worst consequences of most of these processes at bay. The paper explores some of these.

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