The Water Planetary Boundary: Interrogation and Revision

T Gleeson; L Wang-Erlandsson; SC Zipper; M Porkka; F Jaramillo; D Gerten; I Fetzer; SE Cornell; Luigi Piemontese; LJ Gordon; J Rockström; T Oki; M Sivapalan; Y Wada; KA Brauman; M Flörke; MFP Bierkens; B Lehner; P Keys; M Kummu; T Wagener; S Dadson; TJ Troy; W Steffen; M Falkenmark; JS Famiglietti

doi:10.1016/j.oneear.2020.02.009

The Water Planetary Boundary: Interrogation and Revision

T Gleeson, L Wang-Erlandsson, SC Zipper, M Porkka, F Jaramillo, D Gerten, I Fetzer, SE Cornell, Luigi Piemontese, LJ Gordon, …

One Earth, Vol.2(3), pp.223-234

2020

: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2020.02.009

https://hdl.handle.net/10863/52869

Resource Management

Sustainability

Water resources

The planetary boundaries framework proposes quantified guardrails to human modification of global environmental processes that regulate the stability of the planet and has been considered in sustainability science, governance, and corporate management. However, the planetary boundary for human freshwater use has been critiqued as a singular measure that does not reflect all types of human interference with the complex global water cycle and Earth System. We suggest that the water planetary boundary will be more scientifically robust and more useful in decision-making frameworks if it is redesigned to consider more specifically how climate and living ecosystems respond to changes in the different forms of water on Earth: atmospheric water, frozen water, groundwater, soil moisture, and surface water. This paper provides an ambitious scientific road map to define a new water planetary boundary consisting of sub-boundaries that account for a variety of changes to the water cycle.

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: The Water Planetary Boundary: Interrogation and Revision
: T Gleeson - University of Victoria
L Wang-Erlandsson - Stockholm Resilience Centre
SC Zipper - United States Geological Survey
M Porkka - Stockholm Resilience Centre
F Jaramillo - Stockholm Resilience Centre
D Gerten - Leibniz Association
I Fetzer - Stockholm Resilience Centre
SE Cornell - Stockholm Resilience Centre
Luigi Piemontese - Stockholm Resilience Centre
LJ Gordon - Stockholm Resilience Centre
J Rockström - Stockholm Resilience Centre
T Oki
M Sivapalan - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Y Wada - International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
KA Brauman - University of Minnesota
M Flörke - Ruhr University Bochum
MFP Bierkens
B Lehner - McGill University
P Keys - Colorado State University
M Kummu - Aalto University
T Wagener - University of Bristol
S Dadson - University of Oxford
TJ Troy - University of Victoria
W Steffen - Australian National University
M Falkenmark - Stockholm Resilience Centre
JS Famiglietti - University of Saskatchewan
: One Earth, Vol.2(3), pp.223-234
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: One Earth 2, March 20, 2020 © 2020 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
: Faculty of Agricultural, Environmental and Food Sciences
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: Journal article
: Gleeson T, Wang-Erlandsson L, Zipper SC, Porkka M, Jaramillo F, Gerten D, Fetzer I, Cornell SE, Piemontese L, Gordon LJ, Rockström J, Oki T, Sivapalan M, Wada Y, Brauman KA, Flörke M, Bierkens MFP, Lehner B, Keys P, Kummu M, Wagener T, Dadson S, Troy TJ, Steffen W, Falkenmark M, Famiglietti JS