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Literature

This section features key academic and policy literature that has shaped the global understanding of sustainability, planetary boundaries, and the safe use of materials. These foundational works provide scientific grounding for the WISE initiative and its approach to sustainable design.

1. Rockström, J., Steffen, W., Noone, K., Persson, Å., Chapin, F.S., Lambin, E., Lenton, T.M., Scheffer, M., Folke, C., Schellnhuber, H.J., Nykvist, B., de Wit, C.A., Hughes, T., van der Leeuw, S., Rodhe, H., Sörlin, S., Snyder, P.K., Costanza, R.., Svedin, U., Falkenmark, M., Karlberg, L., Corell, R.W., Fabry, V.J., Hansen, J., Walker, B., Liverman, D., Richardson, K., Crutzen, P., Foley, J.A., 2009. A safe operating space operating space for humanity. Nature, 461, 472-475. doi: 10.1038/461472a2
   A safe operating space for humanity | Nature
2. Steffen, W., Richardson, K., Rockström, J., Cornell, S.E., Fetzer, I., Bennet, E.M., Biggs, R., Carpenter, S.R., de Vries, W., de Wit, C., Folke, C., Gerten, D., Heinke, J., Mace, G.M., Persson, L.M., Ramanathan, V., Reyers, B., Sorlin, S, 2015. Planetary Boundaries: Guiding Human Development on a Changing Planet. Science, 347, 1259855-1269855. doi: 10.1126/science.1259855
   Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet | Science
3. Persson, L., Carney Almroth, B.M., Collins, C.D., Cornell, S., de Wit, C.A., Diamond, M.L., Fantke, P., Hassellöv, M., MacLeod, M., Rydberg, M.W., Søgaard Jørgensen, P., Villarrubia-Gómez, P., Wang, Z., Zwicky Hauschild, M., 2022. Outside the Safe Operating Space of the Planetary Boundary for Novel Entities. Environ. Sci. Technol., 56, 1510-1521. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.1c04158
   Outside the Safe Operating Space of the Planetary Boundary for Novel Entities | Environmental Science & Technology
4. Earth beyond six of nine planetary boundaries | Science Advances
5. The Brundtland Report
   Our common future – UNESCO Digital Library