The next step: Strengthening the social science voice in environmental governance

This editorial proposes that the time has come to both individually and collectively take proactive steps to strengthen the social science voice in environmental governance. The ISSRM symposiums, SNR journal, and IASNR society provide all important and necessary -intellectual home"for the human dimensions movement, bill we must now, leverage this social and intellectual capital into policy, and management innovations oil the ground. We can learn much front more established professional societies about how to achieve these objectives. Practical strategies advanced include the formation of association policy committees and task forces (is well as the draft- ing of association policy positions and while papers. It is little now, to build oil the successes of the human dimensions movement by bringing this collective social capital to bear oil the most pressing natural resource policy, management, and education issues of our little.