Transformational Change in Environmental and Natural Resource Management

It is widely agreed the Anthropocene has seen an unprecedented decline in the natural resources conditions that have underpinned the economic growth of the last few hundred years. As communities, we have not responded to Boulding’s vision of ‘the coming space ship earth’10 although not for want of much official and private effort. As ‘wicked problems’11 the impacts have been often ignored or off loaded to policy makers, with mixed success.