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31 Μαΐ 2023 · An environmental impact is the effect of human activity on the natural environment. This is usually negative but can also be positive. At a high level, most impact is related to consuming resources, creating waste and disrupting ecosystems.
Humans impact the physical environment in many ways: overpopulation, pollution, burning fossil fuels, and deforestation. Changes like these have triggered climate change, soil erosion, poor air quality, and undrinkable water.
15 Αυγ 2023 · Human-Environmental Interactions involve how humans adapt to, modify, and affect nature, for example, building a dam to control a river’s flow (Peet, Robbins, & Watts, 2011). In the era of the Anthropocene, it’s believed human actions are able to impact the entire global ecosystem, such as through human-induced climate change.
8 Νοε 2022 · The term human-environment interaction describes the ways in which humans and their surrounding ecosystems influence each other. This relationship is bidirectional, for example: Humans modify their surroundings for their benefit, such as through deforestation to create farmland.
9 Αυγ 2021 · Human activity has changed our planet forever. Devastating wildfires, severe flooding, and extreme heat—all occurring more frequently—serve as a grim confirmation: the climate crisis is here.
Environmental geographers are interested in environmental sustainability and well-being involving a wide range of human interactions that include political economy, social power, cultural identities, and others.
Research on the human dimensions of global change concerns human activities that alter the Earth's environment, the driving forces of those activities, the consequences of environmental change for societies and economies, and human responses to the experience or expectation of global change.
