Understanding Society and Natural Resources [electronic resource] : Forging New Strands of Integration Across the Social Sciences / edited by Michael J. Manfredo, Jerry J. Vaske, Andreas Rechkemmer, Esther A. Duke.

Preface I: Rajendra Kumar Pachauri -- Preface II: Paul J. Crutzen -- Introduction -- Part I: The Status of Integration: Chapter 1: Historical Perspective on the Diversity versus Unity in the Social Sciences: Al Luloff, Philip Lowe, Jeff Bridger -- Chapter 2: Integration via Interdisciplinarity in the Social Sciences and Beyond: Concept, Content and Cases: Susan Clark, Richard Wallace Josh Goldstein -- Chapter 3: A Vision for Science Integration in Addressing Natural Resource Issues: Robert Costanza -- Chapter 4: Natural Resource Governance: Is Disciplinary Integration Necessary?: Arun Agrawal -- Chapter 5: Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere (MAHB): Integrating Social Science and the Humanities into Earth Systems Governance: Ilan Kelman, Eugene Rosa, Tom R. Burns, Nora Machado, Lennart Olsson, Paul Ehrlich, Don Kennedy -- Chapter 6: Neuroeconomic: John M. Gowdy -- Chapter 7: The Humanities as Hypotheses for Understanding Resource Challenges and Conflicts: Bron Taylor -- Part 2: Topics in Integration: Chapter 8: Innovative Multi-level Approaches to Risk Governance Research: Armin Haas, Peijun Shi, Qian Ye -- Chapter 9: Livelihoods, Poverty, and Conservation : Lucca Tacconi, Andrew Vayda -- Chapter 10: Who's afraid of Thomas Malthus?: Jörg Friedrichs -- Chapter 11: Developing Social - Ecological Models of Emerging Infectious Disease: Melissa L. Finucane, Jefferson Fox, Sumeet Saksena, Jim Spencer -- Chapter 12: Social Perspectives on Land Degradation and Desertification: The Case of Migration and Conflict: Andreas Rechkemmer, Walter Amman,  Luc Gnacadja -- Chapter 13: Seeking Multilevel Dimensions for Social-Psychological Research in Society and Natural Resources: Mike Manfredo, Elke Weber, Tara Teel -- Part 3: Methodological Advances for Facilitating Social Science Integration: Chapter 14: Human Agency in Spatial Models of Land Change: Peter Verburg -- Chapter 15: Agent-based Modeling: Randall Boone, Kathleen Galvin -- Chapter 16: Social Network Analysis: Philip Vaughter and Jeff Broadbent -- Chapter 17: Systems and Learning Approaches for Integrating Social Sciences into Policy Processes: Kevin Collins.

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