1996 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Global Change: Both a Scientific and a Political Issue
verfasst von : R. E. Munn
Erschienen in: Policy Making in an Era of Global Environmental Change
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
Enthalten in: Professional Book Archive
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‘Global change’ is a phrase introduced by natural scientists in the early 1980s, and later used widely by social scientists, policy analysts, engineers and environmental action groups. The phrase has quite a specific connotation, expressing a concern that the world is changing faster than ever before. ‘Global change’ incorporates an anxiety that by the late 21st century, large-scale demographic, socioeconomic, technological, cultural and environmental conditions will be greatly different from those prevailing today — and probably not at all to our liking. The fact that many of the changes will be global in scale makes the situation even more worrisome. Nation states will not be able to protect themselves individually from harmful effects.