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  Victoria University of Wellington

  Victoria University of Wellington (Te Whare Wānanga o Te Ūpoko o Te Ika a Māui in Māori) was established in 1897 as a constituent college of the University of New Zealand.
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  Is global collapse imminent?

  Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, University of Melbourne, 2014

  This paper is an updated comparison of 1972 book Limits to Growth, with historical data.
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  Planetary boundaries: Exploring the safe operating space for humanity

  Ecology and Society, 2009

  This paper identifies nine planetary boundaries and proposes quantifications for seven of them. Planetary boundaries define the boundaries to avoid major human-induced environmental change on a global scale.
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  Ecological Footprint Atlas 2010

  Global Footprint Network, 2010

  The report summarises results and implications of the 2010 National Footprint Accounts, which provide accounting of ecological resource demand and supply for all nations with populations over 1 million.
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  Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, University of Melbourne (MSSI)

  The Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute (MSSI), aims to facilitate and enable research linkages, projects and conversations leading to increased understanding of sustainability and resilience tren
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  Global Footprint Network

  The Global Footprint Network was established in 2003 to 'enable a sustainable future where all people have the opportunity to live satisfying lives within the means of one planet.' Its work aims to ac
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  Growth isn’t possible: Why we need a new economic direction

  New Economics Foundation, 2010

  This report looks at the possibility of indefinite global economic growth in the context of climate change and energy.
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  Demonstrating 'respect' for the UNFCCC REDD+ safeguards: the importance of community-collected information

  Global Canopy Programme, 2015

  This paper argues that stakeholder groups – specifically indigenous and local communities living in or directly dependent upon forests – can often offer an important source of knowledge and capacity.
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  Groundwater and ecosystem services: A framework for managing smallholder groundwater-dependent agrarian socio-ecologies – applying an ecosystem services and resilience approach

  International Water Management Institute, 2015

  This report outlines the Water, Land and Ecosystem (WLE) conceptual understanding of groundwater-dependent and groundwater-impacting ecosystem services and devises an approach to guide research and policy development related to agrarian socio-ecologies highly dependent on groundwater.
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  Preserving the African elephant for future generations

  South African Institute of International Affairs, 2015

  African elephants face an escalating poaching crisis due to an explosion in demand for ivory, mostly in China. Over 100 000 elephants were killed illegally between 2010 and 2012. This paper synthesises the relevant economic literature on elephant conservation, which informs the construction of a game theoretic model. The model is designed to

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