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What does a ‘safe and just space’ for humanity look like? As we face significant challenges like climate change and resource inequality, this concept is emerging as essential for creating a fair and sustainable future. Research highlights that with transformative changes in how we manage resources and develop our economies, we can meet the needs of every person while also protecting our planet. The idea is straightforward: when we prioritize justice in our systems, we naturally align with the safety of our environment. This isn't just about addressing threats; it’s about seizing opportunities for growth and well-being. Collaboration across governments, businesses, and communities is vital to operationalize these ideas. We are at a crucial moment where our actions today will shape a thriving tomorrow for everyone. Let’s elevate this conversation and think collectively about pathways forward. How can we as individuals and organizations contribute to this vision of a safe and just space? Share your thoughts and solutions in the comments! 🌍💚 https://lnkd.in/eYG5AwDW

🌍 New Research in the Journal of Management Studies! 📕 We are excited to share "Boundary Conditions for Organizations in the Anthropocene" by Amanda N Williams (IMD Business School), Paolo Perego (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano), and Gail Whiteman (Gail Uncontrollable Wildfires Whiteman; University of Exeter Business School) ✍️. This study reviews the Planetary Boundaries Framework 10 years on, highlighting gaps in business research that often focuses on climate change, while other critical boundaries like freshwater and biosphere integrity are overlooked. Authors emphasize the need for a systemic approach to address all Earth system boundaries, ensuring sustainable business practices in the Anthropocene 🌍. 🔗 Read more here: https://bit.ly/3Yalmh9 #PlanetaryBoundaries #CorporateSustainability #ClimateChange #Anthropocene #JMSResearch #JMS #JMS_Journal #Wiley

Ever wondered, how climate can influence culture…? Here is my first theoretical paper on this subject, which introduces a 3-dimensional eco-cultural model that has some fascinating and also terrifying solutions. Friends of Hasselmann’s 1976 model will recognize the analogy: weather -> climate; innovation -> culture.

We, as climate scientists, have the luxury of giving advise without any responsibilities, and ramping up the messaging with Emergency Frames. But what could be the unintended consequences. This podcast is a part of a series I am posting on Climate and Human Evolution but will post under New Findings in Climate Change as well later. But picked this one to post out of turn. Fun to think about our evolutionary traits that probably make us love gawking at accidents and disasters and maybe Emergency Frames also. What does the use Emergency Frames in Sustainability mean for global collective actions that are needed for getting out of this mess? How to use Emergency Frames judiciously? #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis #climateimpacts #climateaction #emergencyframe #weatherextremes #climatesolutions #saviourcomplex https://lnkd.in/d__bb_xP

What connects extreme climate events, societal dynamics, and resilience? 🌍🌪 This session at #EGU2025 will delve into these linkages, exploring how disasters and societal responses intersect. We invite contributions across disciplines—natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, and beyond—to share insights at local, regional, or global scales. 🔬 Empirical, theoretical, and modelling studies are all welcome! Let’s collaborate to better understand and address the challenges of a changing climate. 💡 Submit your abstracts by 15 January 2025, 13:00 CET: https://bit.ly/3YKa3N4 #ReducingRisksTogether #ClimateResilience #ExtremeWeather #InterdisciplinaryResearch #ClimateScience

𝗛𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀: 𝗢𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝟱𝟬 𝗱𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗲𝘀 𝗖𝗲𝗹𝘀𝗶𝘂𝘀. Domenico Dentoni, Montpellier Business School https://lnkd.in/ee-fe2Hv As a symptom of the current global climate emergency, rising temperatures pervade organizational lives. Yet, organization studies have hardly investigated the everyday organizing necessary to cope and adapt, here and now, to life in a world approaching and even surpassing 50 degrees Celsius. This essay seeks to open spaces of collective inquiry to grapple with practices of organizational co-evolution with heat. I apply Barad’s post-humanist notion of diffraction – patterns of interference in entangled agency – through warming organizations, as rising temperatures intra-act with the matter, materials, bodies and discourses that co-constitute them. Diffractive inquiry helps organization studies understand how rising heat alters and amplifies bodily differences across families, communities, firms, societies and ecologies. This post-humanist view forces to rethink theories of organizational resilience, inequality and identity in co-evolution with heat and other ecological phenomena as part of a relational whole. #Globalwarming #Resilience #SocioEcologicalSystems #Adaptation #Posthumanism

As environmental, technological and societal change join forces to disrupt human and planetary health, the world must get better at tracking and responding to a host of emerging challenges, according to a new report from UN Environment Programme and the International Science Council. It identifies eight critical global shifts that are accelerating the triple planetary crisis of #climatechange, #nature and #biodiversity loss, and #pollution and waste.   The shifts include humanity’s degradation of the natural world, the rapid development of technologies such as #AI, competition for natural resources and widening inequalities. I full agree with Inger Andersen that, as the impacts of multiple crises intensify, now is the time to get ahead of the curve and protect ourselves from emerging challenges. We need to avoid repeating mistakes of the past and focus on solutions that can withstand future disruption. Science provided by the World Meteorological Organization community will be pivotal in this. Read Navigating New Horizons – A Global Foresight Report on Planetary Health and Human Wellbeing https://bit.ly/3Y50KZj

💭 Think Different. 💸 Fund Different. #ExpeditionScience is #MakingScienceHappen by getting researchers into the field and supporting genuine climate science projects that make a real difference. #climate #research #science #funding

In a thought-provoking interview with my colleague Hamid H. Samandari, Johan Rockström, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and the recipient of the 2024 Tyler Prize, discusses what he sees as the looming threat of a "polycrisis" where environmental, geopolitical, social, and economic risks converge. This confluence could futher deepen, in his view, global challenges such as food insecurity, migration, and conflict, hitting hardest in the world's most vulnerable regions. To address the challenge, Prof. Rockström calls for a fundamental shift of mindset from holding the Earth for an infinite resource that can be tapped at will to seeing it as a planetary home with finite resources requiring careful stewardship and management. Needless to say, such an unprecedented change would not be possible without an equally unprecedented level of engagement and collaboration across the globe. Explore the full interview to see what underpins Prof. Rockström’s thinking and in particular what planetary boundaries modeling says about potential tipping points: https://lnkd.in/dR-WUts7

Climate change: questions asked in science to save the Planet: : Is it possible for all humans to escape poverty and be safe from harm caused by Earth system change — if economic systems and technologies are dramatically transformed and critical resources are more fairly used, managed and shared. These changes — facilitated and enacted by governments, the private sector and civil society together — provide an historic opportunity for societies to thrive on a stable planet for generations to come, says researchers.