Across the circumpolar North large disparities in the distribution of renewable and
nonrenewable resources, human population density, capital investments, and basic …

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 concepts resilience, vulnerability, and adaptation are increasingly important for the
study of the human dimensions of global environmental change. Events during the last 2 …

Some people claim that we have recently witnessed a tipping point in the perceptions and
values of western-oriented leaders and others involved in issues related to global …

As we are confronted with mounting evidence of the profound and potentially irreversible
impacts of human activities on the planet—encapsulated in the notion of the Anthropocene …

In Our Common Future, its wake-up call to a world confronted by accelerating environmental
changes, the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED 1987) …

Self-organising systems adapt to environmental change, and this ability modulates the
relationship between specific exposures and outcomes. Vulnerability can be thought of as …

The concept of spatial resilience has brought a new focus on the influence of multi-scale
processes on the dynamics of ecosystems. Initial ideas about spatial resilience focused on …

We argue that globalization is a central feature of coupled human–environment systems or,
as we call them, socio-ecological systems (SESs). In this article, we focus on the effects of …

The impacts of natural hazards on local communities are increasing worldwide and are
projected to rise further due to urban expansion and climate change. To address these …