Environmental problems have contributed to numerous collapses of civilizations in the past.
Now, for the first time, a global collapse appears likely. Overpopulation, overconsumption by …

Identifying drivers of infectious disease patterns and impacts at the broadest scales of
organisation is one of the most crucial challenges for modern science, yet answers to many …

The unsustainable use of our planet's resources needs to be tackled from different angles
and multiple levels of governance. As the human population urbanizes, having access to …

Global trends in land-use changes, including urbanization and abandonment of rural areas,
have important repercussions for the supply and demand of ecosystem services (ES). In this …

This article represents a systematic effort to answer the question, What are archaeology's
most important scientific challenges? Starting with a crowd-sourced query directed broadly …

Because this is a translated and revised edition of the Portuguese language version, many
of the references the reader finds in the course of the chapters are written in Portuguese. It …

The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (or Rio+ 20) was conceived at
a time of great concern for the health of the world economy. In this atmosphere 'green …

Over the past half century, a discourse emphasizing environmental constraints and limits
has both informed and provided many valuable ways of responding to complex …

Urban areas consume more than 66% of the world's energy and generate more than 70% of
global greenhouse gas emissions. With the world's population expected to reach 10 billion …

Human societies have always faced temporal and spatial fluctuations in food availability.
The length of time that food remains edible and nutritious depends on temperature …