Our future in the Anthropocene biosphere

C Folke, S Polasky, J Rockström, V Galaz, F Westley… - Ambio, 2021 - Springer
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed an interconnected and tightly coupled globalized
world in rapid change. This article sets the scientific stage for understanding and responding …

The impacts of ocean acidification on marine ecosystems and reliant human communities

SC Doney, DS Busch, SR Cooley… - Annual Review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Racism. Sexism. Heterosexism. Gender binarism. Together, they comprise intimately
harmful, distinct, and entangled societal systems of self-serving domination and privilege …

Changing ocean, marine ecosystems, and dependent communities

NL Bindoff, WWL Cheung, JG Kairo, J Arístegui… - 2019 - ri.conicet.gov.ar
The ocean is a key component of the Earth system (Chapter 1) as it provides essential life
supporting services (Inniss et al. 2017). For example, it stores heat trapped in the …

[HTML][HTML] The black box of power in polycentric environmental governance

TH Morrison, WN Adger, K Brown, MC Lemos… - Global Environmental …, 2019 - Elsevier
Failure to address unsustainable global change is often attributed to failures in conventional
environmental governance. Polycentric environmental governance—the popular alternative …

Polycentric systems of governance: A theoretical model for the commons

K Carlisle, RL Gruby - Policy studies journal, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Polycentricity is a fundamental concept in commons scholarship that connotes a complex
form of governance with multiple centers of semiautonomous decision making. If the …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-level governance and power in climate change policy networks

M Di Gregorio, L Fatorelli, J Paavola, B Locatelli… - Global environmental …, 2019 - Elsevier
This article proposes an innovative theoretical framework that combines institutional and
policy network approaches to study multi-level governance. The framework is used to derive …

Resilience (republished)

C Folke - Ecology and society, 2016 - JSTOR
Resilience thinking in relation to the environment has emerged as a lens of inquiry that
serves a platform for interdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration. Resilience is about …

Social-ecological resilience and biosphere-based sustainability science

C Folke, R Biggs, AV Norström, B Reyers… - Ecology and …, 2016 - JSTOR
Humanity has emerged as a major force in the operation of the biosphere. The focus is
shifting from the environment as externality to the biosphere as precondition for social …

The boundaries of the planetary boundary framework: a critical appraisal of approaches to define a “safe operating space” for humanity

F Biermann, RE Kim - Annual Review of Environment and …, 2020 - papers.ssrn.com
In 2009, a group of 29 scholars argued that we can identify a set of “planetary boundaries”
that humanity must not cross at the cost of its own peril. This planetary boundaries …

Corporate governance for responsible innovation: Approaches to corporate governance and their implications for sustainable development

AG Scherer, C Voegtlin - Academy of Management Perspectives, 2020 - journals.aom.org
The grand challenges that humanity faces—poverty, inequality, hunger, conflict, climate
change, deforestation, and pandemics, among others—hinder the progress of sustainable …