Societal Boundaries

= aims to complement the concept of Planetary Boundaries

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Ulrich Brand et al. :

"The notion of societal boundaries aims to enhance the debate on planetary boundaries. The focus is on capitalist societies as a heuristic for discussing the expansionary dynamics, power relations, and lock-ins of modern societies that impel highly unsustainable societal relations with nature. While formulating societal boundaries implies a controversial process – based on normative judgments, ethical concerns, and socio-political struggles – it has the potential to offer guidelines for a just, social-ecological transformation."

(https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-25910-4_267)