Exploring Planetary Boundaries: Business, Society & Environment

This essay defines planetary boundaries as the Earth's environmental limits, highlighting their relevance to business sustainability. It uses a hotel waste management case to illustrate the loss of biosphere integrity, linking human activities to ecosystem damage. The essay also cites climate change and CO2 emissions as examples of exceeding planetary boundaries, specifically referencing the absence of polar ice. It emphasizes the need for businesses to adopt eco-friendly approaches to minimize their environmental impact and operate within safe planetary boundaries, referencing the importance of waste management in the context of the hotel case study.

Running head: BUSINESS, SOCIETY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Business, Society and the Environment
Name of the Student
Name of the University
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Explain Planetary Boundaries and how it contributes to the case?
a. A definition in your own words.
The concept of the planet boundaries includes the process of the entire system of the
earth encircling the numerous boundaries and the barriers of the environment (Häyhä
et al., 2016). Developed and proposed by a group of environmental scientist, the
framework of planetary boundaries explains a safe operation of the space targeting
the humanity and depending over the procedure of intrinsic biophysics regulating the
stability of the earth system.
b. An explanation as to why it is relevant to the case study.
As per the given case study of the assignment, there lays a major concern relating
to the disposal of the waste in the accordance with the approaches related to the
sustainability of the stated hotel of concern. The case study furthermore explains the
essentiality or the importance of the eco friendly and the environmental friendly
approaches that the hotel should opt in the notion of the sustainability approach. It is
essential to consider the practice for the effective waste management for the hotel.
The particular planetary boundaries denoted in the case study is the loss of biosphere
integrity. This planetary body is relevant to the given case study since this particular
boundary illustrates the issues and the changes in the eco systems due to the human
activities that are affecting the entire ecosystem. The study depicted the behavior of
the humans of the hotel towards the disposal of the waste in an unhygienic manner
which is a big question towards the respective planetary boundary.
c. Example from outside the case which demonstrates your understanding.

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Apart from the issues stated in the assignment case study one of the notable
example in relation to the planetary boundaries is the issues relating to the climate
change. This include the concept stating the evidences of the planet emitting high
gallon of CO2 in the atmosphere for the preaching of the system of the earth
(Jaramillo & Destouni, 2015). The absence of the polar ice in summer is one of
the noted examples of the thoroughly explained threshold in the connection of the
rapid feedback of the physical mechanism tending to drive the system of the earth
with a high level of the sea meters a compared to the current ranges.

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Reference
Häyhä, T., Lucas, P. L., van Vuuren, D. P., Cornell, S. E., & Hoff, H. (2016). From Planetary
Boundaries to national fair shares of the global safe operating space—How can the scales
be bridged?. Global Environmental Change, 40, 60-72.
Jaramillo, F., & Destouni, G. (2015). Comment on “Planetary boundaries: Guiding human
development on a changing planet”. Science, 348(6240), 1217-1217.