The environmental challenges that confront society are unprecedented and staggering in their scope, pace and complexity. Unless we reframe and examine them through a social lens, societal responses will be too little, too late, and potentially blind to negative consequences.
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Hackmann, H., Moser, S. & St. Clair, A. The social heart of global environmental change. Nature Clim Change 4, 653–655 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2320
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