Planetary opportunities: A social contract for global change science to contribute to a sustainable future

BioScience

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 603-606

  Defries, Ruth S ^a   Ellis, Erle C ^b   Stuart Chapin III, F ^c   Matson, Pamela A ^d   Turner II, B L ^e   Agrawal, Arun ^f   Crutzen, Paul J ^g   Field, Chris ^h   Gleick, Peter ⁱ   Kareiva, Peter M ^j   Lambin, Eric ^d,k   Liverman, Diana ⁿ   Ostrom, Elinor ^l   Sanchez, Pedro A ^a   Syvitski, James ^m  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^g MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^h GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

ⁱ Pacific Institute for Studies in Development   (United States)

^j THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^l INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

Assessments; ecology; ethics; interdisciplinary science; policy; sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862583678     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/bio.2012.62.6.11     Document Type: Review

References (39)

1. Adams WM, Aveling R, Brockington D, Dickson B, Elliot J, Hutton J, Roe D, Vira B, Wolmer W. 2004. Biodiversity conservation and the eradication of poverty. Science 306: 1146-1149. (Pubitemid 39488985)
2. Boserup E. 1965. The Conditions of Agricultural Growth: The Economics of Agrarian Change under Population Pressure. Earthscan.
3. Cash DW, Adger WN, Berkes F, Garden P, Lebel L, Olsson P, Pritchard L, Young O. 2006. Scale and cross-scale dynamics: Governance and information in a multilevel world. Ecology and Society 11: 8.
4. Clark WC. 2007. Sustainability science: A room of its own. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104: 1737-1738. (Pubitemid 46239846)
5. Cordell D, Drangert J-O, White S. 2009. The story of phosphorus: Global food security and food for thought. Global Environmental Change 19: 292-305.
6. Crutzen PJ. 2002. Geology of mankind. Nature 415: 23. (Pubitemid 34062429)
7. Daily GC, Matson PA. 2008. Ecosystem services: From theory to implementation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105: 9455-9456. (Pubitemid 352031321)
8. Ejeta G. 2010. African Green Revolution needn't be a mirage. Science 327: 831-832.
9. Ellis EC. 2011. Anthropogenic transformation in the terrestrial biosphere. Proceedings of the Royal Society A 369: 1010-1035.
10. Ellis EC, Wang SM. 1997. Sustainable traditional agriculture in the Tai Lake region of China. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 61: 177-193.
11. Foley JA, et al. 2011. Solutions for a cultivated planet. Nature 478: 337-342.
12. Grimm NB, Faeth SH, Golubiewski NE, Redman CL, Wu J, Bai X, Briggs JM. 2008. Global change and the ecology of cities. Science 319: 756-760. (Pubitemid 351225834)
13. [IPCC] Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. 2007. Climate Change 2007: Synthesis Report. Contribution of Working Groups I, II and III to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. IPCC. Lawton JH. 2007. Ecology, politics, and policy. Journal of Applied Ecology 44: 465-474.
14. Lubchenco J. 1998. Entering the century of the environment: A new social contract for science. Science 279: 491-496.
15. [MA] Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. 2005. Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Synthesis. Island Press.
16. Macedo M, DeFries R, Morton D, Stickler C, Galford G, Shimabukuro Y. 2012. Decoupling of deforestation and soy production in the southern Amazon during the late 2000s. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109: 1341-1346.
17. Mäder JA, Staehelin J, Peter T, Brunner D, Rieder HE, Stahel WA. 2010. Evidence for the effectiveness of the Montreal Protocol to protect the ozone layer. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 10: 12161-12171.
18. McIntyre BD, Herren HR, Wakhungu J, Watson RT, eds. 2009. Agriculture at a Crossroads: Synthesis Report. International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development Island Press.
19. Myers N, Mittermeier RA, Mittermeier CG, da Fonesca GAB, Kent J. 2000. Biodiversity hotspots for conservation priorities. Nature 403: 853-858. (Pubitemid 30130979)
20. [NRC] National Research Council.2010. Advancing the Science of Climate Change. National Academies Press.
21. Ostrom E. 2010. Polycentric systems for coping with collective action and global environmental change. Global Environmental Change 20: 550-557.
22. Perrings C, Duraiappah A, Larigauderie A, Mooney H. 2011. The biodiversity and ecosystem services science-policy interface. Science 331: 1139-1140.
23. Phelps J, Webb EL, Agrawal A. 2010. Does REDD+ threaten to recentralize forest governance? Science 328: 312-313.
24. Postel SL, Thompson BH. 2005. Watershed protection: Capturing the benefits of nature's water supply services. Natural Resources Forum 29: 98-108. (Pubitemid 40829931)
25. Potter K, Douglas J, Bricj E. 2004. Impacts of agriculture on aquatic ecosystems in the humid United States. Pages 31-40 in DeFries RS, Asner GP, Houghton RA, eds. Ecosystems and Land Use Change. American Geophysical Union.
26. Raudsepp-Hearne C, Peterson GD, Tengö M, Bennett EM, Holland T, Benessaiah K, MacDonald GK, Pfeifer L. 2010. Untangling the environmentalist's paradox: Why is human well-being increasing as ecosystem services degrade? BioScience 60: 576-589.
27. Reid RS, et al. 2009. Evolution of models to support community and policy action with science: Balancing pastoral livelihoods and wildlife conservation in savannas of East Africa. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. doi:10.1073/pnas.0900313106
28. Reid WV, et al. 2010. Earth system science for global sustainability: Grand challenges. Science 330: 916-917.
29. Rockström J, et al. 2009. A safe operating space for humanity. Nature 461: 472-475.
30. Rosenzweig C, Solecki W, Hammer SA, Mehrotra S. 2010. Cities lead the way in climate-change action. Nature 467: 909-911.
31. Ruttan VW. 1977. Induced innovation and agricultural development. Food Policy 2: 196-216.
32. Sanchez PA. 2010. Tripling crop yields in tropical Africa. Nature Geoscience 3: 299-300.
33. Sanchez PA, Swaminathan MS. 2005. Cutting world hunger in half. Science 307: 357-359. (Pubitemid 40139963)
34. Simon JL. 1996. The Ultimate Resource 2. Princeton University Press.
35. Steffen W, Grineveld J, Crutzen PJ, McNeill J. 2011. The Anthropocene: Conceptual and historical perspectives. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A 369: 842-867.
36. Tilman D, Cassman KG, Matson PA, Naylor R, Polasky S. 2002. Agricultural sustainability and intensive production practices. Nature 418: 671-677.
37. Tuinstra W. 2008. European air pollution assessments: Co-production of science and policy. International Environmental Agreements 8: 35-49.
38. Turner BL II. 2010. Sustainability and forest transitions in the southern Yucatán: The land architecture approach. Land Use Policy 27: 170-179.
39. Vitousek PM, Ehrlich PR, Ehrlich AH, Matson PA. 1986. Human appropriation of the products of photosynthesis. BioScience 36: 368-373.