ABSTRACT
Interviews environmental that environmental development, and highlights for key particular, it argues managers must be on guard misinterpretation – conclusions based on myth, poor data, received wisdom and inadequate knowledge. It is also crucial that they objectively select environmental management priorities. For issues like global environmental change, dealing with dangerous genetically modified organisms, highly toxic and persistent chemicals and loss of biodiversity, management must be strategic and international. Developing countries are generating approaches, tools and insights that are also very valuable to developed countries. Politicians, media and development agencies frequently focus on 'hot spots' and 'hot topics'. Climate change, especially human-induced global warming, has probably replaced these at the top of many people's agendas. Diverse factors cause marginalisation and social differentiation: economic development, innovations like new seeds, land speculation, eviction from conservation areas or enclosed land and many other causes.
