Global Change in Local Places

摘要

Policymakers and researchers from numerous disciplines are now engaged in a major effort to link the local with the global. That is, they are looking at the great global changes that are now under way in the environment, society, technology, and culture in terms of their effects on the local places in which individuals actually live and work—and on the ways in which local activities contribute to global change. This trend is clearly evident in recent efforts to prevent global climate change, where bottom-up initiatives are being accompanied by efforts to downscale both science and policy.