Resilient and Inclusive Prosperity within Planetary Boundaries

Dynamics of Inclusive Prosperity

Multiscale regime shifts and planetary boundaries.

Life on Earth has repeatedly displayed abrupt and massive changes in the past, and there is no reason to expect that comparable planetary-scale regime shifts will not continue in the future. Different lines of evidence indicate that regime shifts occur when the climate or biosphere transgresses a tipping point. Whether human activities will trigger such a global event in the near future is unce...

Congestion Domain Boundaries in Resilient Packet Rings

In June 2004, the IEEE approved a new standard for Resilient Packet Rings (RPR). The standard is maintained in the 802 LAN/MAN Standards Committee, and is designated the standard number 802.17. In this paper, we analyze and discuss performance aspects of the Resilient Packet Ring fairness mechanism. We explain that, if the ring is not configured correctly, the fairness mechanism fails to stabil...

Integrating the Planetary Boundaries and Global Catastrophic Risk Paradigms

Planetary boundaries (PBs) and global catastrophic risk (GCR) have emerged in recent years as important paradigms for understanding and addressing global threats to humanity and the environment. This article compares the PBs and GCR paradigms and integrates them into a unified PBs-GCR conceptual framework, which we call Boundary Risk for Humanity and Nature (BRIHN). PBs emphasizes global enviro...

Planetary Boundaries: Ecological Foundations for Sustainability and Management

Management studies on corporate sustainability practices have grown considerably. The field now has significant knowledge of sustainability issues that are firm and industry focused. However, complex ecological problems are increasing, not decreasing. In this paper, we argue that it is time for corporate sustainability scholars to reconsider the ecological and systemic foundations for sustainab...