Center, Internet, Wildlife Damage Management
Ecological and Environmental Anthropology (University of Georgia)
Accessibility Remediation
If you are unable to use this item in its current form due to accessibility barriers, you may request remediation through our remediation request form.
Date of this Version
2007
Abstract
During the last fifty years, there have been rising concerns about human impacts on the environment: biodiversity loss, over-exploitation of species, habitat degradation, global warming, pollution, poverty, and the increasing gap in global development. The outcomes of these environmental problems and impacts on the human condition are uncertain. Previously, theoretical literature integrating environment and development issues had been scarce. However, in recent decades, new approaches in human dimensions research have emerged which seek to understand the major causes of change in the environment, and how these causes vary over time, across space, and between social groups and economic sectors. Environmental problems have entered the realm of urgency and are gaining attention in public policy, prime-time media, and everyday conversations.
Comments
Published in Ecological and Environmental Anthropology Vol. 3, No. 1, 2007. Copyright © 2007. Used by permission. Online at http://eea.anthro.uga.edu/index.php/eea/index