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Safeguarding planetary boundaries: Challenges and response pathways for ecological security thresholds
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1 School of National Safety and Emergency Management, Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai, Guangdong,
China
2 Joint International Research Laboratory of Catastrophe Simulation and Systemic Risk Governance, Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai, Guangdong,
China
3 Key Laboratory of Environmental Biology and Pollution Control (Ministry of Education), College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan,
China
AJWEP, 025420325 https://doi.org/10.36922/AJWEP025420325
Received: 15 October 2025 | Accepted: 15 October 2025 | Published online: 30 October 2025
© 2025 by the Author(s). This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ )
Conflict of interest
Shaokun Li and Chengyun Zhou are part of the Editorial Board of the journal, serving as an Editorial Board Member and Editor-in-Chief, respectively. They declare no competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this editorial.
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