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KH Phua, K Sheikh, SL Tang, Lin V (Editors), Editorial - Health Systems in Asia: Equity, Governance and Social Impact |
Elsevier, 2015 | Social Science & Medicine convened an international conference in Singapore in December 2013 on the theme “Health Systems in Asia: Equity, Governance and Social Impact”. This issue consists of a selection of the papers that were presented at the conference, covering a range of topics from the social sciences and perspectives as complex and diverse as are the health systems of Asia in the fastest growing region of the world. | available from Science Direct | ||||||
| Richardson, Katherine | ||||||||||
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Rockstrom, J., K. Richardson et al, Planetary Boundaries guide humanity’s future on Earth |
Nature, 2024 | Provides a history of the evolution of the Planetary Boundaries (PB) framework of which I am an architect. The biodiversity and climate crises make it clear that, in addition to local and regional environmental management, humanity must now also manage its interactions with the planet as a whole. The PB framework provides guidelines for this management and I now frequently used in policy. | Read more here available from see this link |
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Richardson, K. & M. Rosing, Timescales in the Biosphere and Geosphere: Importance in establishing Earth system state |
Springer Nature, 2024 | The overall state, i.e., the environmental conditions, of planet Earth have, for the last 3.5 billion years been largely determined by the interaction between life (biosphere), the Earth’s abiotic components (geosphere) and the Earth’s energy balance. In this book chapter, we compare and contrast, the roles of the biosphere and geosphere in establishing Earth system state. This is a chapter in the book Multiplicity of Time Scales in Complex Systems | available from see this link | ||||||
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Richardson, K. et al, Earth beyond six of nine planetary boundaries |
Science, 2023 | The 3rd update of a framework of which I am an architect in which we identify 9 processes in the Earth system that are critical for maintaining the environmental conditions that have allowed modern civilizations to develop. We propose a “safe operating space” for human activities and find that humanity has surpassed the boundaries for this safe operating space for 6 of the 9 processes. The article has attracted enormous attention and has been downloaded almost 800,000 times. | Read more here available from see this link |
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Lenton, T.W., K. Richardson et al, Climate tipping points – too risky to bet against |
Nature, 2019 | The article presents the argument that tipping points in the Earth system represent a real and urgent risk for our civilization and that their existence should cause us to adopt a much more precautionary approach towards the perturbations we are causing in the climate system. | Read more here available from see this link |
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Steffen, W., Richardson, K. et al, Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene |
PNAS, 2018 | The article argues that, at some point in global warming, internal feedbacks within the Earth system can potentially “take control” of climate change from us. In other words, if we allow global warming to proceed too far, the Earth may continue to warm to levels unable to support modern civilizations, i.e., a “hothouse Earth”. | Read more here available from see this link |
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| Sokal, Alan | ||||||||||
| Alan Sokal and Richard Dawkins, Sex Assigned at Birth: The medical establishment betrays science, logic and common sense |
The Boston Globe, 2024 | Published in slightly abridged form in the Boston Globe, 8 April 2024. | available from this link | |||||||
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