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Edited by Simon A. Levin, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, and approved September 29, 2016 (received for review June 7, 2016)
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- Published in issue December 20, 2016.
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Author contributions: S.B. designed research, performed research, and wrote the paper.
This paper results from the Arthur M. Sackler Colloquium of the National Academy of Sciences, “Coupled Human and Environmental Systems,” held March 14–15, 2016, at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC. The complete program and video recordings of most presentations are available on the NAS website at www.nasonline.org/Coupled_Human_and_Environmental_Systems.
The author declares no conflict of interest.
This article is a PNAS Direct Submission.
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