Fabrice DeClerck

Jan 4, 2024 | nature.com | Xuemei Bennink Bai |Syezlin Hasan |Anders Bjørn |Daniel Sampero Ospina |Jianguo Liu |Sarah E. Cornell | +14 more

AbstractOperating within safe and just Earth system boundaries requires mobilizing key actors across scale to set targets and take actions accordingly. Robust, transparent and fair cross-scale translation methods are essential to help navigate through the multiple steps of scientific and normative judgements in translation, with clear awareness of associated assumptions, bias and uncertainties.

Nov 16, 2023 | nature.com | Ben Stewart-Koster |Pamela Green |Christopher E. Ndehedehe |Lauren S. Andersen |Xuemei Bennink Bai |Fabrice DeClerck | +11 more

AbstractSafe and just Earth system boundaries (ESBs) for surface water and groundwater (blue water) have been defined for sustainable water management in the Anthropocene. Here we assessed whether minimum human needs could be met with surface water from within individual river basins alone and, where this is not possible, quantified how much groundwater would be required.

May 31, 2023 | nature.com | Johan Rockström |Joyeeta Gupta |Steven J. Lade |Jesse F. Abrams |Lauren S. Andersen |Xuemei Bennink Bai | +27 more

AbstractThe stability and resilience of the Earth system and human well-being are inseparably linked1,2,3, yet their interdependencies are generally under-recognized; consequently, they are often treated independently4,5. Here, we use modelling and literature assessment to quantify safe and just Earth system boundaries (ESBs) for climate, the biosphere, water and nutrient cycles, and aerosols at global and subglobal scales.