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Environmental Change and Human Development [Elektronische Ressource] : Controlling nature?

Barrow, Christopher J.,i1950-

Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014

264 p.

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978-0-340-76403-9

 

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978-1-4441-4464-2

Environmental Change and Human Development focuses on environmental change and human fortunes. While there is a large and rapidly expanding literature dealing with how people affect the environment, less attention has been given in recent years to how the environment shapes human development. In an ever more crowded world there is a need for anticipatory environmental management, and a crucial input to this is consideration of the interaction between environment and humans. The environment is not as stable, benign or controllable as people like to think. The world population is vastly larger ...