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Other publications on the boundaries concept:
Rockström, J., Karlberg, L., 2010. The Quadruple Squeeze: Defining the safe operating space for freshwater use to achieve a triply green revolution in the Anthropocene. Ambio 39:257-265

Foley, J.A., Ramankutty, N., Brauman, K. A., Rockström, J. et al. (2011) Solutions for a cultivated planet. Nature 478 337-342.

Cornell, S. 2012. On the system properties of the planetary boundaries. Ecology and Society 17(1): r2. www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol17/iss1/resp2

Carpenter, S. and Bennett, E. 2011. Reconsideration of the planetary boundary for phosphorus. Environmental Research Letters 6 (2011) 014009.

Ingram, J. 2011. A food systems approach to researching food security and its interactions with global environmental change. Food Security (2011) 3:417—431

Erb, K-H., Haberl, H., DeFries, R., Ellis, E., Krausmann, F., Verburg, P.H. 2012. Pushing the Planetary Boundaries. cience 14 December 2012: 1419-1420. [DOI:10.1126/science.338.6113.1419-d]
 
On governance within planetary boundaries:
Folke, C. and Rockström, J. (2011) 3rd Nobel Laureate Symposium on Global Sustainability: transforming the world in an era of global change. Ambio 40 717-718

Galaz, V. et.al. Planetary boundaries — exploring the challenges for global environmental governance. Curr. Opin. Environ. Sustain (2012), doi: 10.1016/j.cosust.2012.01.006

On characterizing the Anthropocene:
Steffen, W., Persson, A., Deutsch, L., Rockström, J. et al. (2011) The Anthropocene: from global change to planetary boundaries.  Ambio 40 739-761.

Folke, C., Jansson, A., Rockström, J. et al. (2011) Reconnecting to the biosphere. Ambio 40 719-738

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