Human use of land has been transforming Earth's ecology for millennia. From hunting and
foraging to burning the land to farming to industrial agriculture, increasingly intensive human …

Understanding social-ecological systems (SES) is crucial to supporting the sustainable
management of resources. Agent-based modelling is a valuable tool to achieve this …

To what degree is cultural multi-level selection responsible for the rise of environmentally
transformative human behaviors? And vice versa? From the clearing of vegetation using fire …

This revised and updated edition continues to provide a comprehensive introduction to the
subject, exploring the world's landforms from a broad systems perspective. It covers the …

The unprecedented use of Earth's resources by humans, in combination with increasing
natural variability in natural processes over the past century, is affecting the evolution of the …

During the last few decades, scientific capabilities for understanding and predicting weather
and climate risks have advanced rapidly. At the same time, technological advances, such as …

The idea that soil or the pedosphere is connected to the other terrestrial spheres dates back
at least to 1880. Some 26 years later, the interdependency of the terrestrial spheres was …

Proximate decision models, such as those derived from optimal foraging theory (OFT), are
important tools for predicting individual behavior and identifying contradictions to our …

From mobile hunter-gatherers to a series of state societies, Mediterranean climate regions
(MED) around the world have been critical areas for human and biological evolution for …

Abstract Land Use and Cover Changes (LUCCs) have been a cause of great concern for
socio-environmental sustainability. Applied study in this field should take into account the …