The integration of complex system concepts and sustainability in chemical engineering education is often limited to elective or separate courses rather than their integration into the core curriculum. This pedagogical gap can lead to graduates who la...
This article investigates issues in the local operationalization of the Planetary Boundaries concept (PBc), crucial for assessing human impacts on the Earth system and guiding sustainable development policies. Originally designed for the global scale...
Background: A particular challenge in the work to realize the global goals for sustainable development is to find ways for organizations to identify and prioritize organizational activities that address these goals. There are also several sustainabil...
Intergenerational equity has become central to contemporary sustainability discourse and climate litigation, as courts increasingly confront whether present generations may legitimately deplete ecological resources in ways that impose irreversible bu...
Accelerating environmental degradation and the continued overshoot of planetary boundaries highlight the urgent need for scientifically grounded sustainability assessments that operate across scales. While the planetary boundaries framework provides...
The present essay explores the way theologies can contribute to the discussion of the ethics of the “planetary boundaries” framework and its rhetorical proposal for a ‘safe operating space’. I first give a brief description of...
The Planetary Boundaries (PB) framework represents a significant advance in specifying the ecological constraints on human development. However, to enable decision-makers in business and public policy to respect these constraints in strategic plannin...
To promote sustainable food choices, it is essential to provide easily understandable information that integrates health, environmental impacts and planetary boundaries. For this purpose, the Planet Health Conformity Index (PHC) was developed and tes...
Detecting impact craters on the Martian surface is a critical component of studying Martian geomorphology and planetary evolution. Accurately determining impact crater boundaries, which are distinguishable geomorphic units, is important work in geolo...
The interconnectedness of Earth’s ecological and social systems means that changes in one area invariably affect others. Human activities continue to push the planet beyond safe thresholds, threatening both environmental stability and human wel...
Fertilised cropland systems are the dominant source of reactive nitrogen losses in the global environment, contributing most anthropogenic nitrous oxide emissions and driving agricultural nitrogen surplus to nearly three times the safe planetary boun...
As the 2030 deadline approaches with most Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets off-track, the global development community faces a critical choice: continue with technocratic indicator-focused implementation or embrace the fundamental transform...
This study examines how Multi-Scalar Nature-Based Regenerative Solutions (M-NbRS) can realign urban–industrial systems with planetary boundaries to mitigate Earth system destabilization. Using integrated systems analysis, we document three key...
In an era marked by accelerating ecological degradation and widening global inequalities, prevailing patterns of resource extraction and consumption are proving increasingly unsustainable. Driven by hyper-consumption and entrenched linear production...
Armed conflict is a planetary health concern because it disrupts interconnected human, institutional, cultural, and ecological systems on which health and collective well-being depend. Religion is rarely the sole cause of such conflict, but it may be...
The relationship between economic affluence, quality of life, and environmental implications of production and consumption activities is a recurring issue in sustainability discussions. A number of studies examined selected relationships, but the gen...
Growing scientific evidence for the indispensable role of environmental sustainability in sustainable development calls for appropriate frameworks and indicators for environmental sustainability assessment (ESA). In this paper, we operationalize and...
It is possible to frame sustainability as occurring when the global or local system is within a set of limits and boundaries, such as the concept of safe operating spaces within planetary boundaries. However, such framings, whilst highly useful conce...
Planetary health is a transdisciplinary enterprise that seeks to dissolve the artificial boundaries between personal and community health, and the natural systems that sustain life. It was conceived as an “inquiry into our total world,” i...
Debates concerning the Nature of Science (NoS) have increasingly acknowledged its epistemic, cultural, ethical, and social dimensions. Recent scholarship has further foregrounded issues of equity, identity, and justice within science education. While...
Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is emerging not only as a technological breakthrough but as a defining challenge for planetary health and global governance. Its potential to accelerate discovery, optimise resource use, and improve health system...
Urban planetary health requires urban design decisions to consider human and ecological consequences together, yet relevant evidence is often generated through different constructs, methods and scales. This concept paper develops the Urban Planetary...
Humanity faces not isolated problems but a PolyCrisis, which is a set of 26 tightly interwoven existential crises spanning ecological collapse, planetary overheating, chronic disease epidemics, institutional fragility and social breakdown. Each crisi...
The dryline is a sharp boundary between moist air from the Gulf of Mexico and dry air from the desert Southwest. In West Texas, this boundary often surges east during the day and retreats west at night. Understanding exactly why it moves back and for...
This study presents an integrated methodological framework for environmental assessment in copper mining, combining Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), a screening-level Planetary Boundaries (PB) assessment, and scenario-based optimization. A screening-leve...
Nowadays dietary habits in many countries are disconnected from the locally available resources and land. Current diets harm ecosystems and people’s health. (Re-)regionalising food systems and aligning diets with planetary boundaries can be one...
The chemical industry faces major challenges worldwide. Since 1950, production has increased 50-fold and is projected to continue growing, particularly in Asia. It is one of the most energy- and resource-intensive industries, contributing significant...
This paper introduces flourishing circularity as a transformative approach to resource assessment that transcends both traditional Resource-Based View (RBV) theory and conventional circular economy concepts. We demonstrate RBV’s fundamental lim...
In Latin America, coffee is cultivated in distinct coffee agroecosystems (CASs), ranging from traditional agroforestry (“shade”) systems (CAFSs) to intensive, unshaded (“sun”) monocultures (UCASs). While various socioenvironme...
Rapid urbanization has led to a growing number of environmental challenges in large parts of China, where the Yangtze River Delta (YRD) urban agglomerations serve as a typical example. To evaluate the relationship between environmental sustainability...
Planetary gear trains (PGTs) are core transmission units in high-ratio mechanical systems, including vehicle drivetrains, industrial reducers, robotic joints, and servo mechanisms, where transmission efficiency affects power demand, thermal loading,...
Elastic backscatter lidar and ceilometer systems provide continuous observations of aerosol and cloud vertical structure, but the interpretation of conventional attenuated backscatter products is often limited by the dominance of signal amplitude, st...
Mainstream responses to the climate and ecological crisis currently rely on the idea of decoupling GDP growth from ecological damage, i.e., green growth, an approach that has failed so far to avoid the overshoot of most planetary boundaries. The limi...
The integration of sustainability principles into the assessment of companies along the supply chains is a growing research area. However, there is an absence of a generally accepted method to evaluate corporate sustainability performance (CSP), and...
Relative and absolute decoupling between economic growth and environmental pressures is one of the most contested topics in ecological economics. This article situates the decoupling debate within a philosophical and normative framework, building on...
Sustainability research encompasses diverse theories and frameworks focused on promoting sustainable economic (
The establishment of the digital product passport is regarded to be a prominent tool to promote environmental and social sustainability, thus enabling the transition towards Industry 5.0. In this way, it represents a holistic tool for the decision-ma...
The transition towards a sustainable circular economy (CE) model is seen as a solution to keep the consumption of the earth’s resources within planetary boundaries. In the regional context, the CE is promoted through various policy actions, one being...
Urban sustainability challenges demand integrated frameworks capable of addressing the dynamic, non-linear nature of cities. This study explores how the principles of the circular economy and complexity theory intersect to support systemic transforma...
An attempt has been made to explore the relative contributions of moisture feedback processes on tropical intraseasonal oscillation or Madden–Julian Oscillation (MJO). We focused on moisture feedback processes, including evaporation wind feedba...
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are widely presented as an integrated framework for social, economic, and environmental progress, yet recent assessments indicate substantial implementation shortfalls. This scoping review maps post-2015 schol...
The remnants of explosive volcanism on Mercury have been observed in the form of vents and pyroclastic deposits, termed faculae, using data from the Mercury Atmospheric and Surface Composition Spectrometer (MASCS) onboard the Mercury surface, space e...
Future food systems must provide more food produced on less land with fewer greenhouse gas emissions if the goal is to keep planetary boundaries within safe zones. The valorisation of agricultural and industrial by-products by insects is an increasin...
Sustainable chemicals and materials management deals with both the risks and the opportunities of chemicals and products. It is not only focused on hazards and risks of chemicals for human health and the environment but also includes the management o...
Aquatic animals are diverse in terms of species, but also in terms of production systems, the people involved, and the benefits achieved. In this concept piece, we draw on literature to outline how the diversity of aquatic animals, their production,...
The terms mud volcano and sedimentary volcano can conflate material, process and surface expression. Here, a mud volcano is defined operationally as a present or preserved surface or seafloor expression of focused subsurface sediment–fluid extr...
The middle reaches of Heihe River are located in the oasis of the Gobi Desert where limited freshwater supply supports more than 1.5 million inhabitants. The intense agricultural activities are depleting the groundwater reserve. Consequently, natural...
Degrowth scholars emphasize the importance of the foundational economy (FE) for ‘living well within planetary boundaries’. The foundational economy describes the provision and regulation of everyday goods and services needed for the satis...
Feeding the growing global population without permanently overshooting local-to-planetary boundaries demands a transition from conventional resource extraction to holistic models. Current digital twin applications in (sea)food systems primarily empha...
Quantifying the environmental impacts of value chains on the earth’s ecological limits is crucial to designing science-based strategies for environmental sustainability. Combining the Planetary Boundaries (PB) and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) fr...
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