HUMAN DIMENSIONS OF NATURAL RESOURCES

is a reference to the social attitudes, processes, and behaviors related to how

we maintain, protect, enhance, and use our natural resources.  Today’s

natural resource managers are increasingly recognizing that natural

resource management involves not only ecological processes,

but also social processes and consequences as well. 

In a very basic sense, Human Dimensions examines

how the “science of human systems” or theory-based
social science can aid in natural resource management.