Preface ......................................................... v
Who Should Read This Series? ................................... vi
I.Earth's Life Support Systems
Climate Modeling
Leo J.Donner and William G.Large ............................. 1
Global Carbon Emissions in the Coming Decades: The Case
of China
Mark D.Levine and Nathaniel T.Aden .......................... 19
Restoration Ecology: Interventionist Approaches for
Restoring and Maintaining Ecosystem Function in the
Face of Rapid Environmental Change
Richard J.Hobbs and Viki A.Cramer ........................... 39
П. Human Use of Environment and Resources
Advanced Passenger Transport Technologies
Daniel Sperling and Deborah Gordon .......................... 63
Droughts
Giorgos Kallis .............................................. 85
Sanitation for Unserved Populations: Technologies,
Implementation Challenges, and Opportunities
Kara L.Nelson and Ashley Murray ............................ 119
Forage Fish: From Ecosystems to Markets
Jacqueline Alder, Brooke Campbell, Vasiliki Karpouzi,
Kristin Kaschner, and Daniel Pauly ......................... 153
Urban Environments: Issues on the Peri-Urban Fringe
David Simon ................................................ 167
Certification Schemes and the Impacts on Forests and
Forestry
Graeme Auld, Lars H.Gulbrandsen, and
Constance L.McDermott ...................................... 187
III. Management, Guidance, and Governance of Resources and
Environment
Decentralization of Natural Resource Governance Regimes
Anne M.Larson and Fernanda Soto ............................ 213
Enabling Sustainable Production-Consumption Systems
Louis Lebel and Sylvia Lorek ............................... 241
Global Environmental Governance: Taking Stock, Moving
Forward
Frank Biermann and Philipp Pattberg ........................ 277
Land-Change Science and Political Ecology: Similarities,
Differences, and Implications for Sustainability Science
B.L. Turner II and Paul Robbins ............................ 295
Environmental Cost-Benefit Analysis
Giles Atkinson and Susana Mourato .......................... 317
A New Look at Global Forest Histories of Land Clearing
Michael Williams ........................................... 345
Terrestrial Vegetation in the Coupled Human-Earth System:
Contributions of Remote Sensing
Ruth De Fries .............................................. 369
A Rough Guide to Environmental Art
John E.Thornes ............................................. 391
The New Corporate Social Responsibility
Graeme Auld, Steven Bernstein, and Benjamin Cashore ........ 413
IV. Integrative Themes
Environmental Issues in Russia
Laura A.Henry and Vladimir Douhovnikoff .................... 437
The Environmental Reach of Asia
James N.Galloway, Frank J.Dentener, Elina Marmer, Zucong
Cai, Yash P.Abrol, V.K.Dadhwal, A.Vel Murugan .............. 461
Indexes
Cumulative Index of Contributing Authors, Volumes 24-33 ....... 483
Cumulative Index of Chapter Titles, Volumes 24-33 ............. 487
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