The macroecology of sustainability.
The macroecology of sustainability.
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DOI：
10.1371/journal.pbio.1001345
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发表时间：
2012
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影响因子：
9.8
通讯作者：
Zuo W
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文献类型：
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作者：
Burger JR;Allen CD;Brown JH;Burnside WR;Davidson AD;Fristoe TS;Hamilton MJ;Mercado-Silva N;Nekola JC;Okie JG;Zuo W
全球重要资源的消费率表明，我们已经超过了地球维持目前水平的能力，更不用说未来人口和经济增长的轨迹了。可持续发展科学的学科出现是为了回应自然和社会科学家，政策制定者和非专业人士对地球是否能够继续支持人类人口增长和经济繁荣的担忧。然而，可持续性科学的发展在很大程度上独立于控制地球生命的关键生态原则，很少参考这些原则。宏观生态学的观点强调了可持续发展科学中不可或缺的三个原则：1）物理守恒定律支配着人类系统和环境之间的能量和物质流动，2）较小的系统通过这些流动与它们所嵌入的较大系统相连接，3）全球约束最终限制了较小规模的流动。在过去几十年中，石油、磷酸盐、农业用地、淡水、鱼类和木材的人均消费率下降表明，不断增长的人口已经超过了地球提供足够这些基本资源的能力，以维持目前的人口和社会经济发展水平。
Global consumption rates of vital resources suggest that we have surpassed the capacity of the Earth to sustain current levels, much less future trajectories of growth in human population and economy. The discipline of sustainability science has emerged in response to concerns of natural and social scientists, policymakers, and lay people about whether the Earth can continue to support human population growth and economic prosperity. Yet, sustainability science has developed largely independently from and with little reference to key ecological principles that govern life on Earth. A macroecological perspective highlights three principles that should be integral to sustainability science: 1) physical conservation laws govern the flows of energy and materials between human systems and the environment, 2) smaller systems are connected by these flows to larger systems in which they are embedded, and 3) global constraints ultimately limit flows at smaller scales. Over the past few decades, decreasing per capita rates of consumption of petroleum, phosphate, agricultural land, fresh water, fish, and wood indicate that the growing human population has surpassed the capacity of the Earth to supply enough of these essential resources to sustain even the current population and level of socioeconomic development.
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