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The concept of the marginalization of nature and environment is rarely discussed in geography. It is therefore the intention of this chapter to provoke further discussion about this topic and to discuss some of the basic thoughts about it, especially because of its relationship with sustainability. There are two aspects of this issue that are presented. The problem of human-induced negative influences on the environment and the assumption that it can be interpreted as marginalization of nature are discussed first. The second part of the chapter presents several cases of marginalization caused by different natural influences on local or regional communities and the included discussion focuses on nature as influential driver of marginalization.
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It started as the Study group and became a Commission with several names, the present being C16.29 Marginalization, Globalization and Regional and Local Responses.
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Pelc, S. (2018). Marginality and Sustainability. In: Pelc, S., Koderman, M. (eds) Nature, Tourism and Ethnicity as Drivers of (De)Marginalization. Perspectives on Geographical Marginality, vol 3. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59002-8_2
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