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Linking Urban Ecology, Environmental Justice and Global Environmental Change
In the Anthropocene era, human activity has altered biophysical systems on a
planetary scale, accelerating species extinctions, radically changing land cover, and
contributing to rising global temperatures. Over the last half century, there has been
growing recognition that the ability of earth’s ecosystems to support unbridled
resource use is limited. Indeed, many biophysical processes on which we depend
are presently overburdened, creating new uncertainties about the long-term viability
of societies. The grand challenge for the coming decades will be to transform the
ways we think about and act upon the relationship between people and the environment
in order to transition toward a sustainable future. |Read more
