From the Book - Regular Print
Foreword / Hans Joachim Schellnhuber
Sustainability or collapse: lessons from integrating the history of humans and the rest of nature / Robert Costanza, Lisa J. Graumlich and Will Steffen
Human-environment interactions: learning from the past / John A. Dearing
Assessing and communicating data quality: toward a system of data quality grading / Robert Costanza
Pt. 2. The millennial timescale: up to 10,000 years ago
The rise and fall of the ancient Maya: a case study in political ecology / Vernon L. Scarborough
Climate, complexity, and problem solving in the Roman empire / Joseph A. Tainter and Carole L. Crumley
Integration of climatic, archaeological, and historical data: a case study of the Khabur River Basin, northeastern Syria / Frank Hole
The trajectory of human evolution in Australia: 10,000 B.P. to the present / Timothy F. Flannery
Toward a comparative study of hegemonic deline in global systems: the complexity of crisis and the paradoxes of differentiated experience / Jonathan Friedman
Group report: millennial perspectives on the dynamic interaction of climate, people, and resources / Charles L. Redman ... [et al.]
Pt. 3. The centennial timescale: up to 1000 years ago
Revolutionary weather: the climatic and economic crisis of 1788-1795 and the discovery of El Niño / Richard H. Grove
The lie of history: nation-states and the contradictions of complex societies / Fekri A. Hassan
Little ice age-type impacts and the mitigation of social vulnerability to climate in the Swiss Canton of Bern prior to 1800 / Christian Pfister
Information processing and its role in the rise of the European world system / Sander E. van der Leeuw
Group report: integrating socioenvironmental interactions over centennial timescales - needs and issues / John A. Dearing ... [et al.]
Pt. 4. The decadal timescale: up to 100 years ago
A decadal chronology of 20th-century changes in earth's natural systems / Nathan J. Mantua
Social, economic, and political forces in environmental change: decadal scale (1900 to 2000) / John R. McNeill
Integrated human-environment approaches of land degradation in drylands / Eric F. Lambin ... [et al.]
Group report: decadal-scale interactions of humans and the environment / Kathy A. Hibbard ... [et al.]
Scenarios: guidance for an uncertain and complex world? / Bert J. M. de Vries
Evaluating past forecasts: reflections on one critique of the limits to growth / Dennis L. Meadows
Integrated global models / Robert Costanza ... [et al.]
Group report: future scenarios of human-environment systems / Marianne N. Young.
