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  • Environmental science
  • Sustainability science
  • Ecological economics

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  • Maintaining safe operating spaces for exploited natural systems amidst uncertainty is a critical sustainability challenge.
  • Societal well-being and planetary boundaries define the limits of acceptable futures.
  • Societal control dynamics are influenced by knowledge, values, and decision-making fallacies.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To analyze the role of knowledge infrastructure in maintaining safe operating spaces.
  • To investigate how societal response dynamics affect the definition of safe operating spaces.
  • To illustrate these concepts using a classic natural resource problem.

Main Methods:

  • Development of an analytical approach to assess knowledge infrastructure's role.
  • Modeling societal response dynamics to different policy instruments.
  • Case study application to a natural resource management problem.

Main Results:

  • A small, policy-implementation-insensitive safe operating space was identified.
  • A generally larger safe operating space was found to be dependent on the "right" policy implementation.
  • Societal response dynamics significantly shape the safe operating space.

Conclusions:

  • Knowledge infrastructure is crucial for navigating environmental challenges.
  • Effective policy design must consider societal feedback loops and cognitive factors.
  • Defining and maintaining safe operating spaces requires integrating ecological limits with socio-economic dynamics.