Policy design for the Anthropocene

Thomas Sterner; Edward B. Barbier; Ian Bateman; Inge van den Bijgaart; Anne Sophie Crépin; Ottmar Edenhofer; Carolyn Fischer; Wolfgang Habla; John Hassler; Olof Johansson-Stenman; Andreas Lange; Stephen Polasky; Johan Rockström; Henrik G. Smith; Will Steffen; Gernot Wagner; James E. Wilen; Francisco Alpízar; Christian Azar; Donna Carless; Carlos Chávez; Jessica Coria; Gustav Engström; Sverker C. Jagers; Gunnar Köhlin; Åsa Löfgren; Håkan Pleijel; Amanda Robinson

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Policy design for the Anthropocene

Thomas Sterner^*, Edward B. Barbier, Ian Bateman, Inge van den Bijgaart, Anne Sophie Crépin, Ottmar Edenhofer, Carolyn Fischer, Wolfgang Habla, John Hassler, Olof Johansson-Stenman, Andreas Lange, Stephen Polasky, Johan Rockström, Henrik G. Smith, Will Steffen, Gernot Wagner, James E. Wilen, Francisco Alpízar, Christian Azar, Donna CarlessCarlos Chávez, Jessica Coria, Gustav Engström, Sverker C. Jagers, Gunnar Köhlin, Åsa Löfgren, Håkan Pleijel, Amanda Robinson

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Today, more than ever, ‘Spaceship Earth’ is an apt metaphor as we chart the boundaries for a safe planet¹. Social scientists both analyse why society courts disaster by approaching or even overstepping these boundaries and try to design suitable policies to avoid these perils. Because the threats of transgressing planetary boundaries are global, long-run, uncertain and interconnected, they must be analysed together to avoid conflicts and take advantage of synergies. To obtain policies that are effective at both international and local levels requires careful analysis of the underlying mechanisms across scientific disciplines and approaches, and must take politics into account. In this Perspective, we examine the complexities of designing policies that can keep Earth within the biophysical limits favourable to human life.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	14-21
Number of pages	8
Journal	Nature Sustainability
Volume	2
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-018-0194-x
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2019
Externally published	Yes

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Sterner, T., Barbier, E. B., Bateman, I., van den Bijgaart, I., Crépin, A. S., Edenhofer, O., Fischer, C., Habla, W., Hassler, J., Johansson-Stenman, O., Lange, A., Polasky, S., Rockström, J., Smith, H. G., Steffen, W., Wagner, G., Wilen, J. E., Alpízar, F., Azar, C., ... Robinson, A. (2019). Policy design for the Anthropocene. Nature Sustainability, 2(1), 14-21. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-018-0194-x

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