Human Effects On Environment

Scope Note

Extent to which the natural environment is altered as the broader result of human activities (e.g. depletion of geological resources; promotion or suppression of erosion and/or of wild species through burning, over-exploitation, etc.); causes, incidence and types of pollution; methods of measuring; organized attempts to contain or clean up environmental pollution and to restore preexisting conditions; attempts at legal control; anti-pollution devices; recycling of waste materials; recycling centers; general statements on the effects of pollution; environmental movements, etc. This category is intended only for explicit discussion of how humans affect the environment. General statements on climate change will be listed under category 132 unless human actions are implicated.