My list includes three obvious issues -- accelerating climate change and its effects, biodiversity loss and global fisheries depletion, plus two that seem to have gotten less attention than they deserve, land degradation in Africa and scarcity of fresh water in Africa and Asia.
armin Quoting Beth DeSombre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > For a committee I'm on (proposing directions for a university > environmental institute) I've been charged with determining what people > in > my research community see as emerging environmental issues. These can be > based on topic/issue area (e.g. nanotechnology, nitrogen pollution), > approach (e.g. market mechanisms for environmental regulation, private > regulatory processes), or even thinking about other ways we might > usefully > consider environmental issues (e.g. consumption, sufficiency). > > So, if you're willing to weigh in, where do you see our field going in > the > not-too-distant future? What are the things we as scholars should be > gearing up to try to consider? > > Incidentally, this shouldn't be limited to an international focus -- all > scales, from very local, through national and international, are > relevant. > > Thanks in advance to those willing to conceptualize and speculate. > > Beth > > Elizabeth R. DeSombre > Wellesley College > > >
