Human societies have a long history coping with uncertainty and change. A considerable
body of recent work from the global environmental change research community attempts to …

Global environmental change affects all societies and their environments at various spatial
and temporal scales. The linking of natural ecosystems to social ones is of central …

In Our Common Future, its wake-up call to a world confronted by accelerating environmental
changes, the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED 1987) …

First published in 1999. A collection of empirical research and theoretical reflection on the
modelling of environmental change from a social perspective. The focus is on the …

Across the circumpolar North large disparities in the distribution of renewable and
nonrenewable resources, human population density, capital investments, and basic …

The concepts resilience, vulnerability, and adaptation are increasingly important for the
study of the human dimensions of global environmental change. Events during the last 2 …

The magnitude and rapidity of global environmental change threatens the perpetuation of
life on Earth. Many aspects of this crisis are familiar to us-the destruction of tropical …

Declining ecosystem trends have been halted, and in some cases reversed, by innovative
local responses. The ''threats''observed at an aggregated, global level may be overestimated …

Human society affects environmental change but is also vulnerable to these changes. This
relation has generated a number of theories that either focus on how we affect the …

Some people claim that we have recently witnessed a tipping point in the perceptions and
values of western-oriented leaders and others involved in issues related to global …