Natural Resource Management

Natural Resource Management: The Human Dimension

Written by and for scholars, planners, and policymakers, Natural Resource Management: The Human Dimension focuses on issues such as the publics role in the decision-making processes of ecosystem management that affect how we use (or abuse) resources.

It exposes the reader to a wide variety of applications of Human Dimensions Research, as well as to significant issues involved.

One of the greatest needs in natural resource management is for a deeper understanding of the intricate relationship between humans and the natural environment.

Human Dimensions Research, an interdisciplinary field involving a broad variety of social science approaches, seeks to fill this need by providing multidimensional assessments of peoples’ behavior, attitudes, and expectations toward natural resources and their uses.

At a time when we are either loving our forests and parks to death or paving them over, a better understanding of the problems is critical if we are to create workable policies that will preserve and protect our natural resources.