Environmental Social Science offers a new synthesis ofenvironmental studies, defining the nature of human-environmentinteractions and providing the foundation for a newcross-disciplinary enterprise that will make critical theories andresearch methods accessible across the natural and social sciences.
* Makes key theories and methods of the social sciences availableto biologists and other environmental scientists
* Explains biological theories and concepts for the socialsciences community working on the environment
* Helps bridge one of the difficult divides in collaborative workin human-environment research
* Includes much-needed descriptions of how to carry out researchthat is multinational, multiscale, multitemporal, andmultidisciplinary within a complex systems theory context