"Abundance within planetary boundaries requires a deep mind-shift. Not growth without limits. Not limits to growth, but growth within limits."
We've entered the Anthropocene—the era of massive human impacts on Earth—which redefines our future. Our actions are now threatening to trigger tipping points that could knock the planet out of its stable state. In this book, the authors bring together science, photography, and storytelling to share the latest insights on the necessity, possibility, and opportunities presented by a new development paradigm—abundance within planetary boundaries. Safeguarding the remaining beauty on Earth, and using global sustainability to unleash innovation and build resilience, are at the heart of this new narrative of world growth within Earth's limits. 2015 is the most important year of enviromental decisions in decades. The UN will renew its Millenium goals and world leaders will meet in Paris later in the year to renegotiate the Kyoto Protocol.
The Authors

Johan Rockström is one of the world's leading international scientists on global sustainability. He is Executive Director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre and Chair of several international science-policy-business initiatives on global sustainable development. He is Science Advisor to the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and the UN's Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN). In 2012 and 2013 he was elected Sweden's most influential person on environmental issues, and voted Swede of the year 2009.

Mattias Klum is one of the world's leading photographers and filmmakers, known for portraying, in his own artistic way, endangered species, natural environments and ethnic minorities in peril around the globe. Since 1997, he has had a number of articles and cover images published by National Geographic magazine. Klum was named a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum in 2008. He is a Senior Fellow at the Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University, from where he holds an Honorary Doctorate Degree. He is also a Fellow at the National Geographic Society and the Linnean Society of London. This is Klum's thirteenth book.