Global environmental change and ecosystems management

Global Environmental Change addresses large-scale chemical, biological, geological, and physical perturbations of the Earth's surface, ocean, land surface, and hydrologic cycle with special attention to time scales of decades to centuries, to human-caused perturbations and their impacts on society. Ecosystem management is an approach to natural resource management that aims to ensure the long-term sustainability and persistence of an ecosystems function and services while meeting socioeconomic, political, and cultural needs. The seven core principles of ecosystem are —ecosystem and community sustainability, ecosystem health, ecosystem integrity, biological diversity, social values, social principles.