what happned after humans established domination over the nature.
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At this critical moment of Earth’s history, as we move from a century with rapidly growing human impacts on all the different ecosystems of our planet, to a century with a probable further acceleration in the pace of environmental change, resource use, and vulnerability for societies and economies, we have to rethink the changing relationship between nature and human beings from the past, through the present, towards a future full of uncertainty. It becomes more and more evident that major natural processes from the local to the global level are influenced by human activities, creating a much higher degree of complexity through the interaction of processes which are within the domain of both the natural and social sciences. This implies a need to bridge the gulf between the two cultures of science in order to advance our understanding of contemporary driving forces and their rapidly growing impact on earth’s ecosystems. “The biggest changes happened in our century, more precisely in the last 50 years, with a rate unknown before in Earth’s history” (Pfister 1995a). In light of continued population growth, economic development, urbanisation, industrialisation and resource use, it is clear that human impacts on ecosystems world-wide will continue to increase in the next century.