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The quadruple squeeze: Defining the safe operating space for freshwater use to achieve a triply green revolution in the Anthropocene

This publication presents new proposed sustainability criteria for world agriculture, where world food production systems are transformed in order to allow humanity to stay within the safe operating space of planetary boundaries.

Johan Rockström, Louise Karlberg / Published on 14 September 2010
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Rockström, J., L. Karlberg (2010). The quadruple squeeze: Defining the safe operating space for freshwater use to achieve a triply green revolution in the Anthropocene. Rockström, J., L. Karlberg (2010). The quadruple squeeze: Defining the safe operating space for freshwater use to achieve a triply green revolution in the Anthropocene. Ambio, 39(3): 257-265.

Humanity has entered a new phase of sustainability challenges, the Anthropocene, in which human development has reached a scale where it affects vital planetary processes. Under the pressure from a quadruple squeeze—from population and development pressures, the anthropogenic climate crisis, the anthropogenic ecosystem crisis, and the risk of deleterious tipping points in the Earth system—the degrees of freedom for sustainable human exploitation of planet Earth are severely restrained.

It is in this reality that a new green revolution in world food production needs to occur, to attain food security and human development over the coming decades.

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