TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rosa,Eugene A (ed)
AU  - Diekmann, Andreas (ed)
AU  - Dietz, Thomas (ed)
AU  - Jaeger, Carlo (ed)
TI  - Human footprints on the global environment: threats to sustainability 
SN  - 9780262512992
U1  - 363.70526 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - The MIT Press
KW  - Environmental policy
KW  - International cooperation
KW  - Sustainable development
N1  - The colossal human ecological footprint now threatens the sustainability of the entire planet. Scientists, policymakers, and other close observers know that any understanding of the causes of global environmental change is a function of understanding its human dimensiontthe range of human choices and actions that affect the environment. This book offers a state-of-the-art assessment of research on the human dimensions of global environmental change, describing how global threats to sustainability have come about, providing an interpretive framework for understanding environmental change, reviewing recent work in the social and ecological sciences, and discussing which paths for future advances in our knowledge may prove most promising
ER  -