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Summary
Global environmental change often seems to be the most carefully examined issue of our time. Yet understanding the human side--human causes of and responses to environmental change--has not yet received sustained attention. Global Environmental Change offers a strategy for combining the efforts of natural and social scientists to better understand how our actions influence global change and how global change influences us.
The volume is accessible to the nonscientist and provides a wide range of examples and case studies. It explores how the attitudes and actions of individuals, governments, and organizations intertwine to leave their mark on the health of the planet.
The book focuses on establishing a framework for this new field of study, identifying problems that must be overcome if we are to deepen our understanding of the human dimensions of global change, presenting conclusions and recommendations.
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Identifies the ways in which the physical, biological, and human dimensions of global environmental change interact. The book raises questions about the interface between the scientific study of changes in the current global environment and human response to these pronouncements. In order to frame answers to these questions and concerns, the National Research Council established the "Committee on the Human Dimension of Global Change." Human actions are frequently associated with (i.e., cause) environmental change, and such changes frequently have feedbacks that affect human habitability and values. The summary identifies population growth, economic growth, technological change, political-economic institutions, and attitudes as the main driving forces. In order to develop an understanding of the problem, a series of recommendations for a national research program are proposed. Chapters discuss, for example, "Global Change and Social Science" (Ch. 1), "Human Causes of Global Change" (Ch. 2), "Problems of Theory and Method" (Ch. 5), "Data needs" (Ch. 6), and the volume ends with a discussion of the need for a national program. General through professional. J. T. Andrews; University of Colorado
