Environmental Social Science
Human - Environment interactions and Sustainability
1. Edition January 2010
232 Pages, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Environmental Social Science offers a new synthesis of
environmental studies, defining the nature of human-environment
interactions and providing the foundation for a new
cross-disciplinary enterprise that will make critical theories and
research methods accessible across the natural and social sciences.
* Makes key theories and methods of the social sciences available
to biologists and other environmental scientists
* Explains biological theories and concepts for the social
sciences community working on the environment
* Helps bridge one of the difficult divides in collaborative work
in human-environment research
* Includes much-needed descriptions of how to carry out research
that is multinational, multiscale, multitemporal, and
multidisciplinary within a complex systems theory context
1 The Challenge of Human-Environment Interactions
Research
2 Theories and Concepts from the Social Sciences
3 Theories and Concepts from the Biological Sciences
4 Spatially-Explicit Approaches
5 Multi-Scale and Multi-temporal Analysis
6 Bio-complexity in Ecological Systems
7 Environmental Decision-Making
8 Towards Sustainability Science
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natural science. For anyone interested in the development of a
comprehensive environmental science." (Choice , 1 April 2011)
"Thanks to its capacity of surfing across natural and social
sciences, Moran's work will at minimum help scholars from both
sides to create bridges across the gap that still separates them;
something that can already be seen as a non-trivial result."
(Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, July
2010)
"This transformative book addresses the foundational theories
and methods essential to both social and biophysical fields in
human-environment research, promoting familiarity with -- and
accessibility to -- research crossing traditional disciplinary
bounds. Destined to become a key text within coupled human-natural
systems research by exploring the complex problems that our
environment faces, this book underscores that those challenges can
be successfully addressed only through interdisciplinary research
teams; this work will be an integral component of educating future
interdisciplinary researchers."
--Jane Southworth, University of Florida
"In the nick of time at the dawn of the era of great
environmental challenge: a work that encompasses the full array of
relevant sciences...fundamental to lasting solutions"
--Thomas E. Lovejoy, The Heinz Center for Science,
Economics and the Environment
"Professor Moran gives scientists the tools to attack the
most critical environmental challenges - those involving the
relations between people and the environment"
--David E. Blockstein, National Council for Science and the
Environment
"The book fills an incredibly important gap. Emilio Moran
provides a remarkably comprehensive coverage of the fundamental
science that underpins the analysis of coupled human-environment
systems. It's a must read for researchers working in the emerging
field of sustainability science."
--Pamela Matson, Stanford University
"A superb overview of the emerging field of sustainability
science. Readers will enjoy his clear writing, engaging examples
and effective answers to real-world problems."
--Ben Orlove, University of California, Davis