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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. <br />SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIALS <br />www.sclencemag. org / content /347/6223/1259855/suppl/DCI <br />Methods <br />Figs. 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