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Human-Environment Research: Past Trends, Current Challenges, and Future Directions

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Human-Environment Interactions

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This chapter reflects on issues and questions underscoring the preceding chapters while providing a brief overview of current and future directions in the study of human-environment interactions. A discussion of future directions begins with recognizing that the challenges of studying complex coupled human-environment systems are not new, although current processes of globalization and climate change render such challenges pressing, and of wider societal relevance. In this brief overview, we highlight questions related to institutions, ecosystem services, health, adaptation to climate change, urbanization, and methodological challenges.

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  2. Geography Department, Indiana University, Student Building 120, Bloomington, IN, 47405, USA

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Brondízio, E.S., Chowdhury, R.R. (2013). Human-Environment Research: Past Trends, Current Challenges, and Future Directions. In: Brondízio, E., Moran, E. (eds) Human-Environment Interactions. Human-Environment Interactions, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4780-7_17

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