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Social factors as driving forces: Towards interdisciplinary models of global change

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Biodiversity, Temperate Ecosystems, and Global Change

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Homo sapiens is not so fortunate as to have its ecological challenges be separate, distinct and amenable to simple solutions. Biodiversity loss and climate change are examples. The loss of biodiversity is a significant ecological problem, and an important component of global environmental change (Ehrenfeld, 1972; Soulé, 1986; Wilson, 1988a; Lovejoy, 1988; NRC, 1992). The major cause of biodiversity loss is human action, primarily land-use that alters habitat (Pimm and Gilpin, 1989; Freedman, 1989). Climate change is also a critical ecological problem (Peters and Lovejoy, 1992; Gable et al., 1990; Peters, 1988), and anthropogenic factors such as fossil fuel use and release of trace gases are now considered significant driving forces (NRC, 1992; Goodess et al., 1992; Glantz and Krenz, 1992). Further, there are important linkages between climate change and biodiversity loss (Peters and Lovejoy, 1992; Root and Schneider, 1993), and these relationships are often interactive, indirect and nonlinear.

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Machlis, G.E., Forester, D.J. (1994). Social factors as driving forces: Towards interdisciplinary models of global change. In: Boyle, T.J.B., Boyle, C.E.B. (eds) Biodiversity, Temperate Ecosystems, and Global Change. NATO ASI Series, vol 20. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78972-4_3

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