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) …

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 …

Large-scale anthropogenic changes to the natural environment, including land-use change,
climate change, and the deterioration of ecosystem services, are all accelerating. These …

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 …

Global environmental change has been described as a collection of transformations to the
coupled human-environment system that threatens the sustainability of both ecological and …

This paper distinguishes three major “revolutions” in the socio-environmental interactions
that reflect growth in the extent to which human beings invest in and modify their …

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 …

Why worry about the global environment? Are the financial crisis and poverty not far more
urgent? And will technological innovation not solve global warming? Looking at problems as …

This report presents an overview of research horizons in sustainability science. Its motivation
is to help harness science and technology to foster a transition toward sustainability–toward …

As the global human population continues to grow, so too does our impact on the
environment. The ingenuity with which our species has harnessed natural resources to fulfill …