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List of works by Will Steffen

A continental narrative: Human settlement patterns and Australian climate change over the last 35,000 years

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A planetary boundary for green water

scientific article published in 2022

A safe operating space for humanity

scientific article

An integrated framework for sustainable development goals

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Analytically tractable climate-carbon cycle feedbacks under 21st century anthropogenic forcing

Analytically tractable climate–carbon cycle feedbacks under 21st century anthropogenic forcing

Approaches to defining a planetary boundary for biodiversity

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Avoiding bio-perversity from carbon sequestration solutions

scholarly article by David B. Lindenmayer et al published January 2012 in Conservation Letters

Climate Endgame: Exploring catastrophic climate change scenarios

scientific article published in August 2022

Climate change in Victoria: trends, predictions and impacts

scholarly article published 2013

Climate change, conservation and management: an assessment of the peer-reviewed scientific journal literature

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Colonization of the Americas, ‘Little Ice Age’ climate, and bomb-produced carbon: Their role in defining the Anthropocene

Conservation strategies in response to rapid climate change: Australia as a case study

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DESIGNING THE GREEN CLIMATE FUND: HOW TO SPEND $100 BILLION SENSIBLY

Developing an Integrated History and future of People on Earth (IHOPE)

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Ecosystem stewardship: sustainability strategies for a rapidly changing planet

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Erratum: Untangling the confusion around land carbon science and climate change mitigation policy

scholarly article by Brendan Mackey et al published September 2013 in Nature Climate Change

Forecast changes in the global environment:What they mean in terms of ecosystem responses on different time-scales

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History for the Anthropocene

How Long Have We Been in the Anthropocene Era?

article published in 2003

Human impacts on planetary boundaries amplified by Earth system interactions

scientific article published on 16 December 2019

Human modification of global water vapor flows from the land surface

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Interdisciplinary research for managing ecosystem services

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Landscape fluidity - a unifying perspective for understanding and adapting to global change

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Looking Back to the Future

Looking back to the future

Making the case for a formal Anthropocene Epoch: an analysis of ongoing critiques

Methods and approaches to modelling the Anthropocene

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Mind the sustainability gap.

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Modelling

Planetary Boundaries: Exploring the Safe Operating Space for Humanity

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Planetary Boundaries: Separating Fact from Fiction. A Response to Montoya et al.

scientific article published on 5 February 2018

Planetary boundaries: using early warning signals for sustainable global governance

scholarly article

Planetary stewardship in an urbanizing world: beyond city limits

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Plausible and desirable futures in the Anthropocene: A new research agenda

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Policy design for the Anthropocene

article by Thomas Sterner et al published January 2019 in Nature Sustainability

Policy: Sustainable development goals for people and planet

scientific article published in March 2013

Re-conceptualizing the Anthropocene: A call for collaboration

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Reconnecting to the biosphere

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Resilience-Based Stewardship: Strategies for Navigating Sustainable Pathways in a Changing World

Response to “The Anthropocene forces us to reconsider adaptationist models of human-environment interactions”

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SUSTAINABILITY. Response to Comment on "Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet".

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Stratigraphic and Earth System approaches to defining the Anthropocene

scientific article published in August 2016

Sustainability or collapse: what can we learn from integrating the history of humans and the rest of nature?

scientific article published on November 2007

Synchronous failure: the emerging causal architecture of global crisis

scientific article published in 2015

The Anthropocene Review: Its significance, implications and the rationale for a new transdisciplinary journal

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The Anthropocene is functionally and stratigraphically distinct from the Holocene

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The Anthropocene, global change and sleeping giants: where on Earth are we going?

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The Anthropocene: Comparing Its Meaning in Geology (Chronostratigraphy) with Conceptual Approaches Arising in Other Disciplines

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The Anthropocene: a conspicuous stratigraphical signal of anthropogenic changes in production and consumption across the biosphere

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The Anthropocene: are humans now overwhelming the great forces of Nature?

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The Anthropocene: conceptual and historical perspectives

scientific article published on March 13, 2011

The Arctic in an earth system context: from brake to accelerator of change

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The New World of the Anthropocene1

The Working Group on the Anthropocene: Summary of evidence and interim recommendations

Scholarly article, 2017

The anthropocene: from global change to planetary stewardship

scientific article (publication date: November 2011)

The causes of land-use and land-cover change: moving beyond the myths

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The geological cycle of plastics and their use as a stratigraphic indicator of the Anthropocene

The planetary commons: A new paradigm for safeguarding Earth-regulating systems in the Anthropocene

scientific article published on 22 January 2024

The technosphere in Earth System analysis: A coevolutionary perspective

The topology of non-linear global carbon dynamics: from tipping points to planetary boundaries

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The trajectory of the Anthropocene: The Great Acceleration

scientific article published on 16 January 2015

Toward an Integrated History to Guide the Future

scientific article published in 2011

Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene

article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Untangling the confusion around land carbon science and climate change mitigation policy

scholarly article by Brendan Mackey et al published June 2013 in Nature Climate Change

What if solar energy becomes really cheap? A thought experiment on environmental problem shifting

When did the Anthropocene begin? A mid-twentieth century boundary level is stratigraphically optimal

scientific article (publication date: October 2015)