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Today, we live in a world in which the issues of environmental protection and sustainable management of natural resources are of significant concern. Globally, several challenges of various severities to sustainable environmental and natural resources management have been reported (EIA 2008; IPCC 2007; FAO 2006; MEA 2005; WCED 1987). These include problems significantly affecting land, atmosphere, water, and biodiversity, at various spatial and temporal scales. These challenges take several forms e.g. pollution, degradation, decreasing biodiversity and degraded ecosystem services (MEA 2005; IPPC 2007; Taylor and Buttel 1992). Hence, the world’s societies are facing the crucial task of developing corrective, adaptive and coping mechanisms (Clini et al. 2008; Clark and Noin 1998). Policy-makers and practitioners have aimed at transforming these problems into manageable challenges (Pepper 1996). This is aptly exemplified by current efforts to meet the challenges posed by climate change and global warming, and the potential attendant impacts (Ranganathan et al. 2008; FAO 2006). Other efforts can be found in the conventions and norms, policies, programmes and projects, at various levels of governance (Albrecht et al. 2007; Hendricks and Guruswamy 1997).
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Schmidt, M., Onyango, V., Palekhov, D. (2011). Editorial - Environmental Challenges and Management of Natural Resources. In: Schmidt, M., Onyango, V., Palekhov, D. (eds) Implementing Environmental and Resource Management. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77568-3_1
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