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The Shared Socioeconomic Pathways and their energy, land use, and greenhouse gas emissions implications: An overview by Riahi, Keywan, van Vuuren, Detlef P., Kriegler, Elmar, Edmonds, Jae, O’Neill, Brian C., Fujimori, Shinichiro, Bauer, Nico, Calvin, Katherine, Dellink, Rob, Fricko, Oliver, Lutz, Wolfgang, Popp, Alexander, Cuaresma, Jesus Crespo, KC, Samir, Leimbach, Marian, Jiang, Leiwen, Kram, Tom, Rao, Shilpa, Emmerling, Johannes, Ebi, Kristie, Hasegawa, Tomoko, Havlik, Petr, Humpenöder, Florian, Da Silva, Lara Aleluia, Smith, Steve, Stehfest, Elke, Bosetti, Valentina, Eom, Jiyong, Gernaat, David, Masui, Toshihiko, Rogelj, Joeri, Strefler, Jessica, Drouet, Laurent, Krey, Volker, Luderer, Gunnar, Harmsen, Mathijs, Takahashi, Kiyoshi, Baumstark, Lavinia, Doelman, Jonathan C., Kainuma, Mikiko, Klimont, Zbigniew, Marangoni, Giacomo, Lotze-Campen, Hermann, Obersteiner, Michael, Tabeau, Andrzej, Tavoni, Massimo

“…•We present an overview of the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs), which were developed as a community effort over the last years.•The SSPs comprise five…”
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The roads ahead: Narratives for shared socioeconomic pathways describing world futures in the 21st century by O’Neill, Brian C., Kriegler, Elmar, Ebi, Kristie L., Kemp-Benedict, Eric, Riahi, Keywan, Rothman, Dale S., van Ruijven, Bas J., van Vuuren, Detlef P., Birkmann, Joern, Kok, Kasper, Levy, Marc, Solecki, William

“…•We present narrative descriptions of future societal development associated with the shared socioeconomic pathways.•We describe the methods used to develop…”
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The Shared Socio-economic Pathways: Trajectories for human development and global environmental change by van Vuuren, Detlef P., Riahi, Keywan, Calvin, Katherine, Dellink, Rob, Emmerling, Johannes, Fujimori, Shinichiro, KC, Samir, Kriegler, Elmar, O’Neill, Brian

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Providing decent living with minimum energy: A global scenario by Millward-Hopkins, Joel, Steinberger, Julia K., Rao, Narasimha D., Oswald, Yannick

“…•Providing Decent Living with Minimum Energy: A Global Scenario.•As ecological breakdown looms, the basic material needs of billions remain unmet.•We estimate…”
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Imperialist appropriation in the world economy: Drain from the global South through unequal exchange, 1990–2015 by Hickel, Jason, Dorninger, Christian, Wieland, Hanspeter, Suwandi, Intan

“…•Rich countries rely on a large net appropriation of resources from the global South.•Drain from the South is worth over $10 trillion per year, in Northern…”
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When worry about climate change leads to climate action: How values, worry and personal responsibility relate to various climate actions by Bouman, Thijs, Verschoor, Mark, Albers, Casper J., Böhm, Gisela, Fisher, Stephen D., Poortinga, Wouter, Whitmarsh, Lorraine, Steg, Linda

“…•Climate worry raises personal responsibility and, thereby, diverse climate actions.•Individuals who strongly endorse biospheric values worry more about…”
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Climate change perceptions and their individual-level determinants: A cross-European analysis by Poortinga, Wouter, Whitmarsh, Lorraine, Steg, Linda, Böhm, Gisela, Fisher, Stephen

“…There is now an extensive literature on the question of how individual-level factors affect climate change perceptions, showing that socio-political variables,…”
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The human core of the shared socioeconomic pathways: Population scenarios by age, sex and level of education for all countries to 2100 by KC, Samir, Lutz, Wolfgang

“…•We convert the general SSP storylines into demographic scenarios for 195 countries.•Human populations are cross-classified by age, gender and level of…”
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Trees, forests and water: Cool insights for a hot world by Ellison, David, Morris, Cindy E., Locatelli, Bruno, Sheil, Douglas, Cohen, Jane, Murdiyarso, Daniel, Gutierrez, Victoria, Noordwijk, Meine van, Creed, Irena F., Pokorny, Jan, Gaveau, David, Spracklen, Dominick V., Tobella, Aida Bargués, Ilstedt, Ulrik, Teuling, Adriaan J., Gebrehiwot, Solomon Gebreyohannis, Sands, David C., Muys, Bart, Verbist, Bruno, Springgay, Elaine, Sugandi, Yulia, Sullivan, Caroline A.

“…Effects of forests on water and climate at local, regional and continental scales through change in water and energy cycles. (1) Precipitation is recycled by…”
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Middle-range theories of land system change by Meyfroidt, P., Roy Chowdhury, R., de Bremond, A., Ellis, E.C., Erb, K.-H., Filatova, T., Garrett, R.D., Grove, J.M., Heinimann, A., Kuemmerle, T., Kull, C.A., Lambin, E.F., Landon, Y., le Polain de Waroux, Y., Messerli, P., Müller, D., Nielsen, J.Ø., Peterson, G.D., Rodriguez García, V., Schlüter, M., Turner, B.L., Verburg, P.H.

“…•Landsystem science produced many empirical results but lacks progress in theory.•We review theories on causes of changes in land use extent and intensity.•We…”
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Environmental conflicts and defenders: A global overview by Scheidel, Arnim, Del Bene, Daniela, Liu, Juan, Navas, Grettel, Mingorría, Sara, Demaria, Federico, Avila, Sofía, Roy, Brototi, Ertör, Irmak, Temper, Leah, Martínez-Alier, Joan

“…•Support of environmental defenders requires better understanding of environmental conflicts.•Environmental defenders employ largely non-violent protest…”
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Ecological civilization: Interpreting the Chinese past, projecting the global future by Hansen, Mette Halskov, Li, Hongtao, Svarverud, Rune

“…•Ecological Civilization is the Chinese government’s response to environmental degradation, and it is a vision for our global future.•Which values and visions…”
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Climate, conflict and forced migration by Abel, Guy J., Brottrager, Michael, Crespo Cuaresma, Jesus, Muttarak, Raya

“…•Growing public interest on climate driver of conflict and migration but evidence is scarce.•Climate change is responsible for increase in asylum seeking…”
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Agricultural and forestry trade drives large share of tropical deforestation emissions by Pendrill, Florence, Persson, U. Martin, Godar, Javier, Kastner, Thomas, Moran, Daniel, Schmidt, Sarah, Wood, Richard

“…•Tropical deforestation for agriculture and tree plantations releases 2.6 GtCO2 yr.•29–39% of emissions are driven by international trade, mainly in beef and…”
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Land-use futures in the shared socio-economic pathways by Popp, Alexander, Calvin, Katherine, Fujimori, Shinichiro, Havlik, Petr, Humpenöder, Florian, Stehfest, Elke, Bodirsky, Benjamin Leon, Dietrich, Jan Philipp, Doelmann, Jonathan C., Gusti, Mykola, Hasegawa, Tomoko, Kyle, Page, Obersteiner, Michael, Tabeau, Andrzej, Takahashi, Kiyoshi, Valin, Hugo, Waldhoff, Stephanie, Weindl, Isabelle, Wise, Marshall, Kriegler, Elmar, Lotze-Campen, Hermann, Fricko, Oliver, Riahi, Keywan, Vuuren, Detlef P. van

“…•Narratives for the Shared Socio-Economic Pathways (SSPs) focusing on the land sector are presented.•Integrated Assessment Models have been applied for the…”
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The marker quantification of the Shared Socioeconomic Pathway 2: A middle-of-the-road scenario for the 21st century by Fricko, Oliver, Havlik, Petr, Rogelj, Joeri, Klimont, Zbigniew, Gusti, Mykola, Johnson, Nils, Kolp, Peter, Strubegger, Manfred, Valin, Hugo, Amann, Markus, Ermolieva, Tatiana, Forsell, Nicklas, Herrero, Mario, Heyes, Chris, Kindermann, Georg, Krey, Volker, McCollum, David L., Obersteiner, Michael, Pachauri, Shonali, Rao, Shilpa, Schmid, Erwin, Schoepp, Wolfgang, Riahi, Keywan

“…•The SSP2 narrative is translated in a quantified marker baseline scenario.•This baseline results in a global final energy demand of 640 EJ/yr by 2050.•And…”
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The global scale, distribution and growth of aviation: Implications for climate change by Gössling, Stefan, Humpe, Andreas

“…•Investigates air transport demand on global, regional, national and individual scales.•Estimates that only 2% to 4% of global population flew internationally…”
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Changes in the global value of ecosystem services by Costanza, Robert, de Groot, Rudolf, Sutton, Paul, van der Ploeg, Sander, Anderson, Sharolyn J., Kubiszewski, Ida, Farber, Stephen, Turner, R. Kerry

“…•Global loss of ecosystem services due to land use change is $US 4.3–20.2trillion/yr.•Ecoservices contribute more than twice as much to human well-being as…”
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The black box of power in polycentric environmental governance by Morrison, T.H., Adger, W.N., Brown, K., Lemos, M.C., Huitema, D., Phelps, J., Evans, L., Cohen, P., Song, A.M., Turner, R., Quinn, T., Hughes, T.P.

“…•Structural analyses of polycentric governance do not explain adverse outcomes.•Exertion of power in polycentric environmental governance explains adverse…”
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Energy, land-use and greenhouse gas emissions trajectories under a green growth paradigm by van Vuuren, Detlef P., Stehfest, Elke, Gernaat, David E.H.J., Doelman, Jonathan C., van den Berg, Maarten, Harmsen, Mathijs, de Boer, Harmen Sytze, Bouwman, Lex F., Daioglou, Vassilis, Edelenbosch, Oreane Y., Girod, Bastien, Kram, Tom, Lassaletta, Luis, Lucas, Paul L., van Meijl, Hans, Müller, Christoph, van Ruijven, Bas J., van der Sluis, Sietske, Tabeau, Andrzej

“…•Greenhouse gas and air pollutant emissions and global land use could develop in very different directions based on societal trends in the energy system and…”
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