Understanding Society and Natural Resources

Part I. The Status of Integration

1. A Vision of the Future of Science: Reintegrating of the Study of Humans and the Rest of Nature
Robert Costanza

2. Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere (MAHB): Integrating Social Science and the Humanities into Solving Sustainability Challenges
Ilan Kelman, Eugene A. Rosa, Tom R. Burns, Paul Ehrlich, Joan M. Diamond, Nora Machado, Donald Kennedy, Lennart Olsson

Part II. Topics in Integration

3. Science During Crisis: The Application of Interdisciplinary and Strategic Science During Major Environmental Crises
Gary E. Machlis, Kristin Ludwig

4. Who’s Afraid of Thomas Malthus?
Jörg Friedrichs

5. A Conceptual Framework for Analyzing Social-Ecological Models of Emerging Infectious Diseases
Melissa L. Finucane, Jefferson Fox, Sumeet Saksena, James H. Spencer

6. Studying Power with the Social-Ecological System Framework
Graham Epstein, Abigail Bennett, Rebecca Gruby, Leslie Acton, Mateja Nenadovic

7. Considerations in Representing Human Individuals in Social-Ecological Models
Michael J. Manfredo, Tara L. Teel, Michael C. Gavin, David Fulton

Part III. Methodological Advances for Facilitating Social Science Integration

8. The Representation of Human-Environment Interactions in Land Change Research and Modelling
Peter H. Verburg

9. Simulation as an Approach to Social-Ecological Integration, with an Emphasis on Agent-Based Modeling
Randall B. Boone, Kathleen A. Galvin

10. Inter-disciplinary Analysis of Climate Change and Society: A Network Approach
Jeffrey Broadbent, Philip Vaughter

11. Designing Social Learning Systems for Integrating Social Sciences into Policy Processes: Some Experiences of Water Managing
Kevin Collins

Keywords: Social Sciences, Social Sciences, general, Geoecology/Natural Processes, Human Geography