Articles | Volume 12, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-12-1115-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-12-1115-2021
Research article
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12 Nov 2021
Research article |  | 12 Nov 2021

Taxonomies for structuring models for World–Earth systems analysis of the Anthropocene: subsystems, their interactions and social–ecological feedback loops

Jonathan F. Donges, Wolfgang Lucht, Sarah E. Cornell, Jobst Heitzig, Wolfram Barfuss, Steven J. Lade, and Maja Schlüter

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