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Nature 400, 399 (29 July 1999) | doi:10.1038/22634

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A manual for planetary management

Philip Newton

  1. Philip Newton is a senior editor at Nature and a visiting research fellow at the School of Biological and Molecular Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford OX2 0BP, UK.

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It is time for environmental scientists and policy-makers to speak the same language, and to target the achievable, not simply the desirable. A framework is emerging from the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme.