Global environmental change : 30 years of interdisciplinary research on the human and policy dimensions of environmental change

Abstract

In their 2010 Global Environmental Change (GEC) 20th Anniversary editorial, Neil Adger, Kate Brown and Mike Hulme noted that “the crisis of the environment is more acute, more intransigent and more widespread than ever, despite scientific knowledge being greater than ever” (Adger et al, 2010). Written after the perceived failure of the COP15 Climate Summit in Copenhagen, and despite some progress over the last ten years, their assessment remains all too pertinent today.