Planetary Boundaries and Sustainable Developments

Planetary boundaries and sustainable developments
Planetary boundaries and sustainable developments
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Planetary boundaries and sustainable developments
PLANETARY BOUNDARIES AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENTS
Summary
Planetary boundaries are said to be the concept which involves the system processes of
the earth (Hajer et al, 2015). The processes contain the environmental boundaries which were
proposed by the system of earth and ecosystem scientists in the year 2009.The team was geared
toward defining “a safe operation volume for the humanity and for the global community as a
condition for sustainable development. The work is basically on the scientific evidence that
actions of human since the revolution of industry have become the main driver of the
environmental change globally (Griggs et al, 2013).
There exist nine planetary boundaries which include;
a. Stratospheric ozone depletion
b. Biosphere integrity loss
c. Climatic change
d. Chemical pollution
e. Ocean acidification
f. Land system change
g. Freshwater consumption and global hydraulic cycle
h. Loading of atmospheric aerosol
i. Flows of Nitrogen and phosphorus to the biosphere
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Planetary boundaries and sustainable developments
Sustainable developments are defined as the developments which meet the need and
requirement of the present generation without initiating any compromise in the capability of the
future generation to achieve their own requirements. Sustainable development trajectory has
addressed the planetary boundaries in a new way which does not portray an open struggle for the
resources. The proposal of the trajectory is that the global should exist within the planetary
boundaries through the implementation of new renewable technologies and new regulations of
the global. Sustainable development can be defined in terms of three spheres/dimensions/pillars
which include social economic and environment (Rockstrom et al, 2013).
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