Planetary Accounting

Kate Meyer graduated from the University of Auckland as the Senior Scholar for Mechanical Engineering with several awards for academic excellence and leadership including the Beca/Rotary Club Scholarship, Composites Association of NZ Prize, Rotary Youth Leadership Awards, and the Maurice Paykel Undergraduate Scholarship. Kate subsequently led sustainable building design teams at Arup in Singapore and Australia, where she guided the environmental design of many award-winning developments. She completed a Sustainable Leadership program at the University of Cambridge, received an Australian Postgraduate Award and an AuDA research grant to develop Planetary Accounting as a PhD at Curtin University, and is currently the Founding Director of the Planetary Accounting Network and Director of Ecometrics. Peter Newman is the Professor of Sustainability at Curtin University in Perth, Australia. He has written 20 books and over 300 papers on sustainablecities. Peter’s book with Jeff Kenworthy ‘Cities and Automobile Dependence (1989) has been described as ‘one of the most influential planning books of all time’ by Reid Ewing, Professor of City and Metropolitan Planning at the University of Utah.  In 2014 he was awarded an Order of Australia for his contributions to urban design and sustainable transport. Peter has worked in local government as an elected councilor, in state government as an advisor to three Premiers, and in the Australian Government on the Board of Infrastructure Australia and the Prime Minister’s Cities Reference Group. He is a Fellow of the Planning Institute of Australia and the Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, is the Co-ordinating Lead Author on Transport for the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report, and most recently published the book Resilient Cities: Overcoming Fossil Fuel Dependence. He was the 2018/19 WA Scientist of the Year. 

Part 1: Introduction.- Chapter 1: The science of anthropogenic climate change.- Chapter 2: The Holocene, the Anthropocene, and the Planetary Boundaries.- Chapter 3: Managing the Earth System – Why we Need a Poly-Scalar Approach.-  Chapter 4: Environmental Accounting, Absolute Limits, and Systemic Change.- Chapter 5: Resolving the Disconnect between Earth System Science, Management Theory, and Environmental Accounting.- Part 2: Developing Planetary Quotes.- Chapter 6: Translating the Planetary Boundaries into Planetary Quotas.- Chapter 7: A Planetary Quota for Carbon Dioxide.-Chapter 8: A Quota for Agricultural GHG Emissions (Methane and Nitrous Oxide).-  Chapter 9: A Quota for Forestland.-  Chapter 10: A Quota for Ozone Depleting Substances.- Chapter 11: A Quota for Aerosols.- Chapter 12: A Quota for Water.-  Chapter 13: A Quota for Nitrogen.- Chapter 14: The Phosphorus Quota.- Chapter 15: The Biodiversity Quota.- Chapter 16: The Imperishable Waste Quota. Part 3: The planetary Accounting Framework.- Chapter 17: The Planetary Accounting Framework.