4 Planetary Boundaries & Doughnuts: Further Reading / Resources
📜 Rockström, Johan, Will Steffen, Kevin Noone, Åsa Persson, F. Stuart Chapin, Eric F. Lambin, Timothy M. Lenton, et al. 2009. ‘A Safe Operating Space for Humanity’. Nature 461 (7263): 472–75. https://doi.org/10.1038/461472a. “Identifying and quantifying planetary boundaries that must not be transgressed could help prevent human activities from causing unacceptable environmental change, argue Johan Rockström and colleagues.” More-or-less the origin of the Planetary Boundaries model.
🎦 Aspects of the Planetary Boundaries model have evolved. See Ten Years of the Planetary Boundaries Framework for presentations in 2019 at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
📜 Montoya, José M., Ian Donohue, and Stuart L. Pimm. 2018. ‘Planetary Boundaries for Biodiversity: Implausible Science, Pernicious Policies’. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 33 (2): 71–73. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2017.10.004. This is a critique of the planetary boundaries framework; a response counters that Montoya et al. misrepresent their use of tipping points.
💻📙 ASU’s Center for Science and the Imagination operates at the intersection of future studies and the arts and humanities. They’ve published open access anthologies of climate themed speculative fiction.
📜 Acaroglu, Leyla. 2021. ‘Tools for Systems Thinkers: The 6 Fundamental Concepts of Systems Thinking’. Disruptive Design (blog). 11 March 2021. A nice accessible introduction to some principles of systems thinking.
📙 Raworth, Kate. 2017. Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist. London: Random House Business Books. Accessible primer critiquing mainstream economics. Exploratory mapping of promising alternatives.
📜 Raworth, Kate. 2017. A Doughnut for the Anthropocene: humanity’s compass in the 21st century. The Lancet Planetary Health. 1 (2): e48–e49. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(17)30028-1
💻 The Doughnut Economics Action Lab (DEAL) is a hub of crowdsourced, curated resources relating to the Doughnut.
