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Article: Context connection and opportunity in environmental problem solving.(The Earth Day Series, part 3)
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- Environment
- Article date:
- June 1, 1995
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Environment is the physical, biological, and social setting for living things. But environment, viewed as a set of unsolved problems for humans, itself unfolds in a social context, an evolving framework of economic, political, and intellectual relations. This framework has changed radically in the past 25 years; consequently, the solutions to environmental problems, and even notions of what constitutes an environmental problem, have been profoundly altered.
One of the most significant changes is an increasing emphasis on connectivity - on context - that is revolutionizing environmental problem solving, moving it away from simple, technology-based approaches. Of ...