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Sarah E. Cornell is affiliated with the Stockholm Resilience Centre in Sweden. Their research primarily falls within the field of Environmental Science, with specific contributions to subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Sociology and Political Science, and Environmental Chemistry.

Their published work encompasses several main topics, including Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Global Energy and Sustainability Research, Ecosystem Dynamics and Resilience, Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy, Climate Variability and Models, Sustainability and Climate Change Governance, and Climate Change Policy and Economics.

Recent significant papers by Sarah E. Cornell include:

  • "Earth beyond six of nine planetary boundaries" (2023), published in Science Advances
  • "Exceeding 1.5°C global warming could trigger multiple climate tipping points" (2022), published in Science
  • "Outside the Safe Operating Space of the Planetary Boundary for Novel Entities" (2022), published in Environmental Science & Technology
  • "Bending the curve of terrestrial biodiversity needs an integrated strategy" (2020), published in Nature
  • "A planetary boundary for green water" (2022), published in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment

Sarah E. Cornell frequently collaborates with other researchers, including:

  • Johan Rockström
  • Ingo Fetzer
  • Dieter Gerten
  • Detlef P. van Vuuren
  • Fernando Jaramillo

Their work has been published in various journals and platforms, most notably:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • One Earth
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Earth System Dynamics

Best Publications

  • Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet

    Will Steffen;Will Steffen;Katherine Richardson;Johan Rockström;Sarah E. Cornell

  • Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems

    Walter Willett;Johan Rockström;Johan Rockström;Brent Loken;Marco Springmann

  • Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene.

    Will Steffen;Johan Rockström;Katherine Richardson;Timothy M. Lenton

  • Exceeding 1.5°C global warming could trigger multiple climate tipping points

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  • Impacts of atmospheric anthropogenic nitrogen on the open ocean.

    R. A. Duce;J. LaRoche;K. Altieri;K. R. Arrigo

  • Bending the curve of terrestrial biodiversity needs an integrated strategy

    David Leclère;Michael Obersteiner;Michael Obersteiner;Mike Barrett;Stuart H.M. Butchart;Stuart H.M. Butchart

  • Opening up knowledge systems for better responses to global environmental change

    Sarah Cornell;Frans Berkhout;Willemijn Tuinstra;Willemijn Tuinstra;J. David Tàbara

  • Marine plastic pollution as a planetary boundary threat - The drifting piece in the sustainability puzzle

    Patricia Villarrubia-Gómez;Sarah E. Cornell;Joan Fabres

  • Safe and just operating spaces for regional social-ecological systems

    John A. Dearing;Rong Wang;Ke Zhang;James G. Dyke

  • Aiming higher to bend the curve of biodiversity loss

    Georgina M. Mace;Mike Barrett;Neil D. Burgess;Neil D. Burgess;Sarah E. Cornell

  • Organic nitrogen deposition on land and coastal environments: a review of methods and data

    S.E Cornell;T.D Jickells;J.N Cape;A.P Rowland

  • Living Planet Report 2018: Aiming Higher

    M. Barrett;A. Belward;S: Bladen;T. Breeze

  • Atmospheric inputs of dissolved organic nitrogen to the oceans

    S. Cornell;A. Randell;T. Jickells

  • A planetary boundary for green water

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  • Approaches to defining a planetary boundary for biodiversity

    Georgina M. Mace;Belinda Reyers;Belinda Reyers;Rob Alkemade;Rob Alkemade;Reinette Biggs;Reinette Biggs

  • From Planetary Boundaries to national fair shares of the global safe operating space — How can the scales be bridged?

    Tiina Häyhä;Tiina Häyhä;Paul L. Lucas;Detlef P. van Vuuren;Detlef P. van Vuuren;Sarah E. Cornell

  • Global and regional analysis of climate and human drivers of wildfire

    Andrew Aldersley;Steven J. Murray;Sarah E. Cornell

  • Policy coherence to achieve the SDGs: using integrated simulation models to assess effective policies.

    David Collste;Matteo Pedercini;Sarah E. Cornell

  • Organic nitrogen in the atmosphere — Where does it come from? A review of sources and methods

    John N. Cape;S.E. Cornell;Timothy Jickells;Eiko G. Nemitz

  • The European Nitrogen Assessment: Sources, Effects and Policy Perspectives

    M Voss;A Baker;SE Cornell;H Bange

  • Atmospheric inputs of dissolved organic nitrogen to the oceans

    S. Cornell;A. Rendell;T. Jickells

  • Policy coherence to achieve the SDGs : using integrated simulation models to assess effective policies (SPECIAL FEATURE : Sustainability Science and Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals)

    David Collste;Matteo Pedercini;Sarah E. Cornell

  • Marine plastic pollution as a planetary boundary threat: the drifting piece in the sustainability puzzle

    Patricia Villarrubia Gómez;Sarah E. Cornell;Joan Fabrés Francés

Frequent Co-Authors

Johan Rockström
Johan Rockström Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Ingo Fetzer
Ingo Fetzer Stockholm Resilience Centre
Will Steffen
Will Steffen Australian National University
Tim Jickells
Tim Jickells University of East Anglia
Dieter Gerten
Dieter Gerten Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Georgina M. Mace
Georgina M. Mace University College London
Katherine Richardson
Katherine Richardson University of Copenhagen
Andy Purvis
Andy Purvis Natural History Museum
Robin Freeman
Robin Freeman Zoological Society of London
Piero Visconti
Piero Visconti International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

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