Nature Communications (Jun 2018)

When optimization for governing human-environment tipping elements is neither sustainable nor safe

  • Wolfram Barfuss,
  • Jonathan F. Donges,
  • Steven J. Lade,
  • Jürgen Kurths

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04738-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Economic optimization in environmental governance was criticized for delivering short-term gains at the expense of long-term environmental degradation. Here, the authors use a stylized model of human-environment tipping elements to show no paradigm guarantees fulfilling another paradigm.