Safe and just operating spaces for regional social-ecological systems

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 227-238

  Dearing, John A ^a   Wang, Rong ^a,b   Zhang, Ke ^a,c   Dyke, James G ^a   Haberl, Helmut ^d   Hossain, Md Sarwar ^a   Langdon, Peter G ^a   Lenton, Timothy M ^e   Raworth, Kate ^f   Brown, Sally ^a   Carstensen, Jacob ^g   Cole, Megan J ^h   Cornell, Sarah E ⁱ   Dawson, Terence P ^j   Doncaster, C Patrick ^a   Eigenbrod, Felix ^a   Flörke, Martina ^k   Jeffers, Elizabeth ^h   Mackay, Anson W ^l   Nykvist, Björn ^i,m   Poppy, Guy M ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

^c JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KLAGENFURT   (Austria)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^g AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^h UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^j UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^k UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

^l UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^m STOCKHOLM ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

more..

Author keywords

Environmental thresholds; Regional boundaries; Social wellbeing; Social ecological systems

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION; BIOPHYSICS; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; POLICY MAKING; RURAL AREA; SOCIAL POLICY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABILITY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER QUALITY; GEOSTATISTICS; REGIONAL POLICY; RURAL POLICY; TIME SERIES;

CHINA;

EID: 84910642430     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2014.06.012     Document Type: Article

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