Describes schemes to study the relationship between the socio-economic and the natural sphere and/or the social dimensions of climate and global change. This book presents methods and techniques to make them available to a scientific community involved in global change and sustainability research.

The methodological approaches can be useful in the design and management of environmental systems, for policy development, environmental risk reduction, and prevention/mitigation strategies. In this context, a variety of environmental and sustainability aspects can be addressed, e.g. changes in the natural environment and land use, environmental impacts on human health, economics and technology, institutional interactions, human activities and behaviour.

Preface
Climate Protection Strategies under Ambiguity about Catastrophic Consequences
An Introduction to Viability Theory and Management of Renewable Resources
Qualitative Modelling Techniques to Assess Patterns of Global Change
Analysing a Sustainability Indicator by Means of Qualitative Kernels
Constraint Satisfaction Problems for Modelling and Explanation in Sustainability Science
Catastrophic Risk Management using Spatial Adaptive Monte Carlo Optimisation
Genetic Algorithms and Their Applications in Environmental Sciences
Using Fuzzy Logic to Quantify Climate Change Impacts on SpawnerChr(45)Recruitment Relationships for Fish from the NorthChr(45)Eastern Pacific Ocean
A Hybrid Case-Based Reasoning System for Supporting the Modelling of Estuaries
Credal Networks for Hazard Assessment of Debris Flows
Multi-Criteria Decision Support for Integrated Technique Assessment
Glossary
Index.