Part I
Basics, Legacy and Historical Purposes
What can we learn from our evolutionary and ecological history?
How is the environmental behaviour of humans guided by natural surroundings?
How important is our social and cultural behaviour for the understanding and
management of ecosystems?
Are nature and culture antipodes or two sides of the same coin?
What can we learn from constraints of our psychological constitution?
How important are communication and education?
The species decline increased dramatically during the last centuries and decades.
Will this development continue or are we able to invert the trend?
In this section we analyse what we can learn from the past for the management of
the environment and the organization of nature conservation programmes for the
future.