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Knowledge infrastructure and safe operating spaces in social'ecological systems

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS, 2019, Vol.116 (12), p.5277-5284 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ;ISSN: 0027-8424 ;EISSN: 1091-6490 ;DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1802885115

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  • Title:
    Knowledge infrastructure and safe operating spaces in social'ecological systems
  • Author: Anderies, J.M. ; Mathias, Jean-Denis ; Janssen, M.A.
  • Subjects: Environmental Sciences
  • Is Part Of: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS, 2019, Vol.116 (12), p.5277-5284
  • Description: Maintaining safe operating spaces for exploited natural systems in the face of uncertainty is a key sustainability challenge. This challenge can be viewed as a problem in which human society must navigate in a limited space of acceptable futures in which humans enjoy sufficient well-being and avoid crossing planetary boundaries. A critical obstacle is the nature of society as a controller with endogenous dynamics affected by knowledge, values, and decision-making fallacies. We outline an approach for analyzing the role of knowledge infrastructure in maintaining safe operating spaces. Using a classic natural resource problem as an illustration, we find that a small safe operating space exists that is insensitive to the type of policy implementation, while in general, a larger safe operating space exists which is dependent on the implementation of the 'right' policy. Our analysis suggests the importance of considering societal response dynamics to varying policy instruments in defining the shape of safe operating spaces.
  • Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 0027-8424
    EISSN: 1091-6490
    DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1802885115
  • Source: Geneva Foundation Free Medical Journals at publisher websites
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