Sustainable development and environmental changes: how to face ecosystem management?

Abstract

It is well known that the economic growth, which is necessary to face the demographic pressure and to maintain and increase the life standing of the population, has strong impacts on the environment. The environmental changes affect globally and regionally the human system; for instance the decrease of arable lands or the depletion of vegetation and water resources affects both the economic activities and the life conditions of the populations. This framework induces the main question on Global Change research: How to conciliate the anthropogenic pressures with the sustainability of the environment?