Sustainability Science

- Foreword

Section I Managing the Earth's Life Support Systems: The Emergence of Sustainability Science and Transdisciplinarity

- From the Unity of Nature to Sustainability Science: Ideas and Practice

- Sustaining Sustainability: Creating a Systems Science in a Fragmented Academy and Polarized World

- A Landscape Approach for Sustainability Science

- It's OK to Talk about Sustainability

Section II Balancing Ecology and Economy: Natural Capital and Quality of Life

- The Value of Natural and Social Capital in Our Current Full World and in a Sustainable and Desirable Future

- Steps Towards Sustainability and Tools for Restoring Natural Capital: Etang de Berre (Southern France) Case Study

- Sustainability of Biodiversity under Global Changes, with Particular Reference to Biological Invasions

Section III  From Science to Policy: Managing the Commons, Social Learning and Social Responsibility

- Post-Sustainability: the Emergence of the Social Sciences as the Hand-Maidens of Policy

- The Purpose and Politics of Ecosystem-Based Management

- Sustainable Coastal Margins: Challenges of Tempo and Mode for the Policy Domain

- Forest and Fishery Transitions to Sustainability

Session IV   The Ecology of Cities

- Cities as Dissipative Structures: Global Change and the Increasing Vulnerability of Urban Civilization

- A Mathematical Description of Urban Metabolism

- Urbanization, Local Government and Planning for Sustainability

- Climate Change, Globalization, and the Double Exposure Challenge to Sustainability: Rolling the Dice in Coastal New Jersey

- Sustainability Trajectories for Urban Waters

Session V   Restoring and Rehabilitating Ecosystems: Return from the Precipice

- Reversing Two Centuries of Ecosystem Degradation: Can Science Better Inform Policy & Practice?

- Changing Nature: Novel Ecosystems, Intervention, and Knowing When to Step Back

- Knocking on Doors: Boundary Objects in Ecological