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Chapter 5 { A New World View Contents } When thinking of the world as interwoven systems it’s easy to understand that places really remote from us can have rather direct effects on our daily lives. Most people in the United States don’t think of ecology in Brazil, New Guinea, or Australia as affecting them […]

Chapter 4 { A New World View Contents } The U.S. Change Global Research Program An important aspect of our new world view is that everything is connected to everything else.  Changes in forest ecosystems affect rivers and streams, as well as the atmosphere and climate.  Therefore, it is important for scientists who research Earth […]

Chapter 3 { A New World View Contents } The historical summary in the previous chapter may seem remote and not our doing. It happened a long time ago, and there isn’t anything we can do about it. But as you’ll see in this chapter, people continue to make decisions about whether or not to […]

Chapter 2 { A New World View Contents } Just as you are creating changes in your “ecosystem in a bottle,” humans are changing the ecosystems of the world’s forests.  This chapter summarizes the history of those changes. In the year 1800, approximately 1 billion people lived on our planet.  Now we number nearly 6 […]

Chapter 1 { A New World View Contents } Global systems science is a new field of study about the interactions between Earth’s natural systems and human activities.   The people who study global systems science draw on methods and theories of many different fields—from chemistry and biology to economics and politics—in order to predict how […]

A New World View, the first of Four GSS Themes, introduces all of the other Guides in the Global Systems Science series. See Overview. Contents Chapter Titles Investigations Stay Current 1. What is Global Systems Science? 1.1. Create Your Own Ecosystem Chapter 1 2. A History of Forest Use in       the Pacific Northwest 2.1. Tree Study […]