To develop and apply goals for future sustainability, we must consider what people care
about and what motivates them to engage in solving sustainability issues. Sense of place …

The concept of a poverty trap—commonly understood as a self-reinforcing situation beneath
an asset threshold—has been very influential in describing the persistence of poverty and …

This chapter takes sustainable development as the starting point and focus for analysis. It
considers the broad and multifaceted bi-directional interplay between sustainable …

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. The UN's
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set an ambitious agenda for global problem …

We live in a human-dominated world and the pace and scale of changes to the biosphere,
from climate change to landuse change, are staggering. Accelerated socio-economic …

The social–ecological trap is an emerging concept that describes situations in which self‐
reinforcing social and ecological feedbacks maintain or push a social–ecological system …

With cities expanding globally and human populations becoming increasingly urban,
sustaining ecosystems that support human well-being in cities is both increasingly …

Social-ecological (SE) traps refer to persistent mismatches between the responses of
people, or organisms, and their social and ecological conditions that are undesirable from a …

Restoring, maintaining, and develo** green and blue infrastructure (GBI) in cities is a key
strategy to safeguard ecosystem services and human well-being under conditions of rapid …

The security, resilience, and sustainability of urban water supply systems (UWSS) are
challenged by global change pressures, including climate and land use changes, rapid …