Chapters 1.1 through 3.1

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0_1_Table of Contents_vS1.doc

Complete ToC for the book.

1_1_Sustsci & Sust Dev_vS2.pdf

Introduction to the volume tracing the relationships between sustainable development (as a goal) and sustainability science (as a means of achieving that goal).

1_2_Trends & Transitions_vS2.pdf

The puzzle to be explained: patterns in the long-term, large-scale interactions between humans and the environment.

1_3_HE system_vS1.doc

A conceptual framework for thinking about the human-environment (HE) system.

2_1_Human_wellbeing_vS1.pdf

Conceptualizing human well-being and the role of the natural environment in shaping it.

2_1A_Human_wellbeing_Appendix_vS1.pdf

Appendix on how time, risk and intergenerational issues figure in the determination of human well-being.

2_2_Natural cap & sust dev_vS1.pdf

Defining sustainable development in terms of how natural capital is transformed into human and manufactured capital.

2_2a_Natural cap & sust dev_Appendix_vS1.pdf

Appendix on the estimation of shadow prices

2_3_Natural Cap & Environmental Services_vS1.pdf

How natural capital and the environmental services that flow from them shape and are shaped by human development.

2_4_Institutions_vS1.doc

How institutions -- seen as rules, norms, and expectations -- shape the interactions between humans and the environment.

2_4A_Institutions_Appendix_vS1.doc

Externalities: Natural Capital and Institutional Failure

3_1_Emergent Properties (Vulnerability and resilience)

This chapter addresses the cluster of emergent properties of coupled human environment systems that have been characterized as 'vulnerability' and 'resilience'. It also touches on the relation to these central themes of adaptiveness, threshold effects, etc. What it does not do, but should in its final form, is address additional relevant emergent properties suggested by a complex adaptive system perspective on HES.