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<br />ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
<br />We thank I Foley and N. Ramunkutty for contributions to the
<br />land- system change boundary; A. Pastor for analytical work on the
<br />PB for freshwater; B. Armstrong, C. Butler, T. McMichael, and
<br />A. Woodward for contributions to the novel entities boundary; and
<br />B. Scholes for comments on an earlier version of the manuscript.
<br />Data associated with the paper are located at the Stockholm
<br />Resilience Centre, Sweden (http:/ /www.stockholmresilience.org /
<br />21/ research/ research- programmes /planetary- boundaries.html).
<br />The planetary boundaries research at the Stockholm Resilience
<br />Centre is made possible through a core grant from MISTRA
<br />(Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research). S.E.C.
<br />is supported by the Swedish Research Council, E.M.B. is supported
<br />by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of
<br />Canada and by the Trottier Institute for Science and Public Policy,
<br />R . is supported by a Branco Weiss Fellowship, C.F. is supported
<br />by the Family Erling Persson Academy Programme on Global
<br />Economic Dynamics and the Biosphere, I.F. is supported by the
<br />Stordalen Foundation (Norway), S.S. is supported by the
<br />Riksbanken Jubileumsfond and the Institute for Advanced Study,
<br />Princeton NJ, and S.R.C. and V.R. are supported by
<br />the U.S. National Science Foundation.
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