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Earth System Analysis
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                University Alexander von Humboldt Chair
in Sustainability Science

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Key:
J = Journal article
/ B = Chapter in a book / P = Other scientific paper / R = Report / A = General article / O = Other

2024

(J.130) Michaelis, J., B. Vogel, S. Strunz, W. Lucht, H. Dahms, C. Dornack, A. Geissler, J. Hertin, F. Hoffart, C. Kemfert, M. Klein, W. Köck, J. Lage, E. Marquard, S. Schmalz, J. Settele, B. Sommer, S. Weiss, and S. Wiegand, Sufficiency as a ‘Strategy of the Enough’: Curbing ecological crises and injustices, GAIA, 33, 275-281, 2024.

(J.129) Drüke, M.,
W. Lucht, W. von Bloh, S. Petri, B. Sakschewski, A. Tobian, S. Loriani, S. Schaphoff, G. Feulner, and K. Thonicke, The long-term impact of transgressing planetary boundaries on biophysical atmosphere-land interactions, Earth System Dynamics 15, 467–483, doi.org/10.5194/esd-15-467-2024, 2024.

(J.128) F. Stenzel, J. Braun, J. Breier, K.-H. Erb, D. Gerten, J. Heinke, S. Matej, S. Ostberg, S. Schaphoff, and W. Lucht, biospheremetrics v1.0.2: An R package to calculate two complementary terrestrial biosphere integrity indicators: human colonization of the biosphere (BioCol) and risk of ecosystem destabilization (EcoRisk), Geosci. Model Dev., 17, 3235–3258, doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-3235-2024, 2024.

(J.127) Werner, C.,
W. Lucht, C. Kammann, and J. Braun, Land-neutral negative emissions through biochar-based fertilization – global potentials driven by management and pyrolysis conditions, Mitig. Adapt. Strategies Global Change, 29, 34, doi.org/10.1007/s11027-024-10130-8, 2024.

(J.126) Rockström, J., L.J. Kotzé, S. Milutinović, F. Biermann, V. Brovkin, J.F. Donges, J. Ebbesson, D. French, J. Gupta, R.E. Kim, T.M. Lenton, D. Lenzi, N. Nakicenovic, B. Neumann, F. Schuppert, R. Winkelmann, K. Bosselmann, C. Folke,
W. Lucht, D. Schlosberg, K. Richardson, and W. Steffen, The Planetary Commons: A New Paradigm for Safeguarding Earth Regulating Systems in the Anthropocene, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. US, 121, e2301531121, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2301531121, 2024.

(R) L. Caesar, B. Sakschewski, L. Seaby Andersen, T. Beringer, J. Braun, D. Dennis, D. Gerten, A. Heilemann, J. Kaiser, N. H. Kitzmann, S. Loriani, W. Lucht, J. Ludescher, M. Martin, S. Mathesius, A. Paolucci, S. te Wierik, and J. Rockström, Planetary Health Check Report 2024, A Scientific Assessment of the State of the Planet, First Edition, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, 97 pp., 2024.

(A) Alt SJ, J, A. van Baalen, M. König,
W. Lucht, and D. Weinspach, Höchste Zeit für zivilen Ungehorsam? Gepräch: Stimmen aus Gesellschaft und Hochschule. In: Jahn, K., S. Rentsch, and E.-M. Walther (eds.), Deutscher Evangelischer Kirchentag Nürnberg 2023. Dokumente. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh, 535 pp., 412-418, 2024.


Currently submitted/close to submission (not complete):

(J) Braun, J., C. Werner, D. Gerten, F. Stenzel, S. Schaphoff, and W. Lucht, Multiple planetary boundaries preclude BECCS outside of agricultural areas, revised (as of Nov., 2024).

(J) Gerten, D., J. Braun, J. Breier,
W. Lucht, A. Tobian, and F. Stenzel, A software package for assessing terrestrial planetary boundaries, submitted (as of June, 2024).

(J) Stenzel, F., L. Ben Uri, J. Braun, J. Breier, K. Erb, D. Gerten, S. Matej, R. Milo, H. Haberl, S. Ostberg, J. Rockström, N. Roux, S. Schaphoff, and
W. Lucht, Mapping the transgression of the functional biosphere integrity planetary boundary, submitted (as of Oct. 2024)


2023

(J.125) Richardson, K., W. Steffen, W. Lucht, J. Bendtsen, S.E. Cornell, J.F. Donges, M. Drüke, I. Fetzer, G. Bala, W. von Bloh, G. Feulner, S. Fiedler, D. Gerten, T. Gleeson, M. Hofmann, W. Huiskamp, M. Kummu, C. Mohan, D. Nogués-Bravo, S. Petri, M. Porkka, S. Rahmstorf, S. Schaphoff, K. Thonicke, A. Tobian, V. Virkki, L. Wang-Erlandsson, L. Weber, and J. Rockström, Earth beyond six of nine Planetary Boundaries, Science Advances 9, DOI:10.1126/sciadv.adh24582023, 2023.

(J.124)  Drüke, M., B. Sakschewski, W. von Bloh, M. Billing,  W. Lucht, and K. Thonicke, Fire may prevent future Amazon forest recovery after large-scale deforestation, Nature Communications Earth & Environment, 4, 248, doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-00911-5, 2023.

(B) Bues, A., and
W. Lucht, Anthropozän und Erdsystemkrise: Suffizienz als Leben und Wirtschaften innerhalb ökologischer Grenzen, in: M. Reese, W. Köck, and T. Markus (Eds.), Zukunftsfähiges Umweltrecht II: Suffizienz im Recht, Erfordernisse, Ansätze und Instrumente zur Begrenzung des gesamten Ressourcenverbrauchs, Leipziger Schriften zum Umwelt- und Planungsrecht, 45, Nomos-Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden, 164 pp., 65-86, 2023.

(A) Lucht, W., Damit Ihr das Leben in Fülle habt. Kirche sein im Anthropozän, Una Sancta, 78, 306-317, 2023.


2022

(J.123) Werner, C., W. Lucht, D. Gerten, and C. Kammann, Potential of Land-Neutral Negative Emissions Through Biochar Sequestration, Earth's Future, 10, e2021EF002583. doi.org/10.1029/2021EF002583, 2022.

(A)
W. Lucht, Das Wasser der Nachfolge (Kommentar der Woche), die Kirche, 35,1, 2022.


2021

(J.122) Donges, J.F., W. Lucht, J. Heitzig, W. Barfuss, S.E. Cornell, S.J. Lade, and M. Schlüter, Taxonomies for structuring models for World-Earth system analysis of the Anthropocene: subsystems, their interactions and social-ecological feedback loops, Earth Syst. Dynam., 12, 1115–1137, doi.org/10.5194/esd-12-1115-2021, 2021.

(J.121)
Stenzel, F., P. Greve, W, Lucht, S. Tramberend, Y. Wada, and D. Gerten, Irrigation of biomass plantations may globally increase water stress more than climate change, Nature Communications, 12, 1512, 2021.

(O) Reiner, D.M., I. Hannula, T. Koljonen, M. Allen,
W. LuchtG. Guillén-Gosálbez, and N. Mac Dowel, Europe’s ‘green deal’ and carbon dioxide removal, Nature (correspondence), 589, 19, 2021.


2020

(J.120) Otto, l.M., J.F. Donges, W. Lucht, and H.J. Schellnhuber, Social tipping dynamics in a world constrained by conflicting interests (Reply to Smith et al., PNAS, 2020), Proceedings National Academy of Sciences USA, doi:10.1073/pnas.2002648117, 2020.

(J.119) Donges, J.F., J. Heitzig, W. Barfuss, J. Kassel, T. Kittel, J.J. Kolb, T. Kolster, F. Müller-Hansen, I.M. Otto, M. Wiedermann, K.B. Zimmerer, and W. Lucht, Earth system modelling with complex dynamic human societies: the copan:CORE World-Earth modeling framework, Earth System Dynamics, 11, 395–413, 2020.

(J.118) Otto, l.M., J.F. Donges, R. Cremades,
A. Bhowmik, R. Hewitt, W. Lucht, J. Rockström, F. Allerberger, M. McCaffrey, S.S.P. Doe, A. Lenferna, N. Moran,  D.P. van Vuuren, and H.J. Schellnhuber, Social tipping dynamics for stabilizing Earth’s climate by 2050, Proceedings National Academy of Sciences USA, doi:10.1073/pnas.1900577117, 2020.

(J.117) Gerten, D., V. Heck, J. Jägermeyr, B.L. Bodirsky, I. Fetzer, M. Jalava, M. Kummu, W. Lucht, J. Rockström, S. Schaphoff, and H.J. Schellnhuber, Feeding ten billion people is possible within four terrestrial planetary boundaries, Nature Sustainability, doi:10.1038/s41893-019-0465-1, 2020.

(J.116) Otto, l.M., M. Wiedermann, R. Cremades, J.F. Donges, C. Auer, and W. Lucht, Human agency in the Anthropocene, Ecological Economics, 167, 106463, 2020.

(P) Kemfert, C., G. Jaschke, J. Michaelis, A. Franke, A. Bues,
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