How your locality has changed over the past two or three decades ,including changes in the way people are dependent on local and global ecosystem services, land use,population,status or quality of the environment
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The relationships between human population dynamics and natural resources have been of interest at least as far back as Malthus, who argued that human population growth could outstrip the ability of the Earth to provide food. More recent scholars have noted that population-environment relationships are much more complex and are influenced by many more human activities than just procreation. About a decade ago, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and other research sponsors began providing concerted support of research to understand connections between human population and environmental quality that are mediated by changes in land use. This volume focuses on research in which land use or land cover change is a key mediator of human-environment interactions, in which demographic variables figure prominently among the driving forces investigated, and in which efforts are made to investigate the causal mechanisms by which human population changes affect land use and environmental outcomes. It takes stock of the progress that has been made in such research to see what has been learned, to identify gaps and problems that remain, and to develop a set of recommendations about future research directions.
The main areas of research progress have been refining the broad concepts of population, land use, and environment into more specific and illuminating concepts; developing sustained research on the relationships among these factors over time at specific sites; identifying ways in which population–land use–environment relationships depend on the scale at which observations are made and in which relationships at one scale affect processes at others; and developing some effectively functioning interdisciplinary research teams. Recent research has clarified how population effects depend not only on total numbers, but also on migration, household size, and other demographic variables. It has shown how the causes of change in forest cover look different depending on how secondary forest is treated in the analysis. Current research challenges include linking social with environmental data, collecting data at the appropriate levels of resolution, achieving comparability of data across sites and time, and moving from descriptive studies to ones that can reasonably be used for causal inference. Interdisciplinary collaboration remains a challenge despite the progress that has been made.
As we are becoming more modern and industrial day by day we are constantly harming and polluting our mother nature.
The changes in any locality can be seen easiy in the past few decades due to the heavy industrialization nowadays.
The population also increased due to the enhanced medical treatments which increased the birth rate and decreased the death rate.
The efficiency of modern lifestyle also made us largley dependent on the science and technology.