First published in 1999. A collection of empirical research and theoretical reflection on the
modelling of environmental change from a social perspective. The focus is on the …

Human societies have a long history coping with uncertainty and change. A considerable
body of recent work from the global environmental change research community attempts to …

The late 1980s saw a phenomenal growth of international concern over the global
environment. It has begun to influence politics both in industrially advanced countries and in …

We are occasionally, and appropriately, reminded these days that environmental change
has been a fact of life on this planet for all the time it has existed. Human societies thrive in …

Global environmental change affects all societies and their environments at various spatial
and temporal scales. The linking of natural ecosystems to social ones is of central …

Declining ecosystem trends have been halted, and in some cases reversed, by innovative
local responses. The ''threats''observed at an aggregated, global level may be overestimated …

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent
chapters of this book. The book introduces some of the outcomes of the first German …

Understanding vulnerability to the impacts of global environmental change and identifying
adaptation measures to cope with these impacts require localized investigations that can …

Produced by the International Social Science Council (ISSC) and UNESCO, and published
by the OECD, the 2013 World Social Science Report represents a comprehensive overview …

The world is 'full'and 'unequal'(Milanovic 2005). This is scarcely a novel assertion and yet
the implications remain fundamentally underappreciated. With roughly seven billion people …