Earth and Environmental Sciences
The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)
Illustrative: a state in a double-well potential, tipping and returning with hysteresis as the forcing changes
Risk Academy, led by the Nexus Consortium · Earth and Environmental Sciences
The planetary boundaries framework asks how far the Earth system can be pushed before it leaves the stable state in which societies developed.
Map planetary boundaries and Earth system resilience on a real place
The model
From a tonne of carbon to a boundary: how emissions become concentration, forcing and warming, and where the safe space ends
DataModelGateDecision
The model From a tonne of carbon to a boundary: how emissions become concentration, forcing and warming, and where the safe space ends
The subtopics its courses and labs teach.
For Earth system scientists, sustainability analysts and policy advisers who need to read a planetary boundary assessment or a tipping point estimate and understand what the control variable, the threshold and the uncertainty zone each mean.
Each method is listed with what it assumes and where it fails.
Bodies and standards are named so learners can find and apply their published work; the Academy teaches their use and links to the publisher, and no affiliation is implied.
Planetary boundaries and Earth system resilience's own model, as a live chart: move each parameter and read how the outputs respond.
Search any place or open the world; the layers and generators follow planetary boundaries and Earth system resilience on the planet map, the globe and in 3D.
Drag to move, right drag or Shift with a drag to turn and tilt, Ctrl with the wheel to zoom. Keyboard: arrows move, Shift with arrows turn and tilt, + and - zoom, 0 resets, V steps through the views, Escape clears.
Flat plan of the same data: relief as contours from the inline grid, rivers and canals, and the numbers below. The 3D twin opens on devices with WebGL once its data and library have been checked.
The boundaries, names and designations shown do not imply any judgement on the legal status of any territory, or any endorsement or acceptance of such boundaries. Countries: Natural Earth (public domain).
Open scholarly sources searched with the subject terms of Planetary boundaries and Earth system resilience.
Search termsPlanetary boundaries and Earth system resilience; The planetary boundaries framework; Climate change and biosphere integrity as core boundaries; Land-system change and freshwater change; Biogeochemical flows of nitrogen and phosphorus; Ocean acidificationDerived from the Risk Academy page on Planetary boundaries and Earth system resilience.
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Research and preprints as they are published, by discipline, with the faculty's other tools.
The hub lists the newest research and preprints for Planetary boundaries and Earth system resilience, each with its source and date. Open the research hub
Recent developments in planetary boundaries and Earth system resilience, each with its source; sources checked on 16 October 2026.
Courses for this discipline are in development; until they open, study it through the connected courses and open lessons below.
The course catalogue lists every open course of the Academy.
| Aspect | In this area |
|---|---|
| Technology that helps | Earth observation and acoustic monitoring, environmental DNA and GeoAI. |
| Risk technology creates | The governance of biotechnology releases, and data sovereignty. |
One for each course with this as its primary discipline, earned when you pass the course's assessed activities.
Earn two discipline achievements in the Department of Ecology and Land Systems. In development.
An achievement is a record of the learning completed and assessed here. How recognition works.
A field platform page on this subject is in development.
Nexus Foundry system pages describe what each system and its rooms are designed to do; the courses teach the methods these systems apply.
Start with Rockström, then Steffen, then Richardson.
Nexus Reports is the Consortium's quarterly publication. What you know about this subject can become evidence, a case or a correction in the next edition, credited to you and published under CC BY 4.0 where it is your own work.
Open courses in connected disciplines teach the methods this discipline will build on.