Understanding Society and Natural Resources

"This volume is clearly an important contribution to the literature with a proper blending of different disciplines that would help us understand the interface between human society and natural resources in an integral manner." - Dr. R.K Pachauri, Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

• Preface I: Rajendra Kumar Pachauri.- Preface II: Paul J. Crutzen.- Introduction.- Part I: The Status of Integration: Chapter 1: Historical Perspective on the Diversity versus Unity in the Social Sciences: Al Luloff, Philip Lowe, Jeff Bridger.- Chapter 2: Integration via Interdisciplinarity in the Social Sciences and Beyond: Concept, Content and Cases: Susan Clark, Richard Wallace Josh Goldstein.- Chapter 3: A Vision for Science Integration in Addressing Natural Resource Issues: Robert Costanza.- Chapter 4: Natural Resource Governance: Is Disciplinary Integration Necessary?: Arun Agrawal.- Chapter 5: Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere (MAHB): Integrating Social Science and the Humanities into Earth Systems Governance: Ilan Kelman, Eugene Rosa, Tom R. Burns, Nora Machado, Lennart Olsson, Paul Ehrlich, Don Kennedy.- Chapter 6: Neuroeconomic: John M. Gowdy.- Chapter 7: The Humanities as Hypotheses for Understanding Resource Challenges and Conflicts: Bron Taylor.- Part 2: Topics in Integration: Chapter 8: Innovative Multi-level Approaches to Risk Governance Research: Armin Haas, Peijun Shi, Qian Ye.- Chapter 9: Livelihoods, Poverty, and Conservation : Lucca Tacconi, Andrew Vayda.- Chapter 10: Who’s afraid of Thomas Malthus?: Jörg Friedrichs.- Chapter 11: Developing Social - Ecological Models of Emerging Infectious Disease: Melissa L. Finucane, Jefferson Fox, Sumeet Saksena, Jim Spencer.- Chapter 12: Social Perspectives on Land Degradation and Desertification: The Case of Migration and Conflict: Andreas Rechkemmer, Walter Amman,  Luc Gnacadja.- Chapter 13: Seeking Multilevel Dimensions for Social-Psychological Research in Society and Natural Resources: Mike Manfredo, Elke Weber, Tara Teel.- Part 3: Methodological Advances for Facilitating Social Science Integration: Chapter 14: Human Agency in Spatial Models of Land Change: Peter Verburg.- Chapter 15: Agent-based Modeling: Randall Boone, Kathleen Galvin.- Chapter 16: Social Network Analysis: Philip Vaughter and Jeff Broadbent.- Chapter 17: Systems and Learning Approaches for Integrating Social Sciences into Policy Processes: Kevin Collins.