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NRM policy brief no. 2: Land literacy improvement: key to sustainable natural resources management

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The history of environmental degradation can be traced with changing economies and cultures associated with rapidly changing societies. For most of human history, th ability to read and interpret the signs of nature has been an art or craft crucial for survival, but since the agricultural revolution, humans have become progressively more insulated from the immediate need to be able to read and understand nature in order to eat, be clothed and find shelter (Campbell, 1995). The changes ocuring at rapid pace is unprecented in the history of mankind.

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