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This chapter explores responses to the crises and injustices laid out in the previous six chapters and examines a path forward. We emphasize that the kind and magnitude of human changes needed range from the personal to the global and everything in between. We offer examples of how community can be rebuilt and restructured as we work to transform the ecological environment. Taking a holistic approach involves confronting the ecological crisis as a wicked problem requiring responses that embrace the complexity and overlapping nature of the issues. System-level changes that acknowledge and confront the ways race, class, and gender are used to disproportionately place the burdens of our global environmental crisis on those with less power and voice are essential. Engaging in this change means collaborating across disciplines and knowledge bases. Finally, we explore ways to come together in response to the crisis we are facing to explore ways to move forward within community, professions, and education.
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Nesmith, A.A. et al. (2021). Pathways to Change: Community and Environmental Transformation. In: The Intersection of Environmental Justice, Climate Change, Community, and the Ecology of Life. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55951-9_7
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