PART I: EMPIRICAL AND THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS
1. A Global Icon for Nature in the Human-Dominated World, Vanessa Hull and Jianguo Liu
2. Framing Sustainability of Coupled Human and Natural Systems, Jianguo Liu, Vanessa Hull, Neil Carter, Andres Vina, Wu Yang
PART II: MODEL COUPLED HUMAN AND NATURAL SYSTEM
3. Peek into a Home for Pandas and People, Vanessa Hull, Wu Yang, Wei Liu, Yinchun Tang, Jian Yang, Hemin Zhang, Zhiyun Ouyang, and Jianguo Liu
4. Pandas-People Coexistence and Competition, Vanessa Hull, Jindong Zhang, Wei Liu, Jinyan Huang, Shiqiang Zhou, Scott Bearer, Weihua Xu, Mao-Ning Tuanmu, Andres Vina, Hemin Zhang, Zhiyun Ouyang, and Jianguo Liu
5. Quantifying Human Dependence on Ecosystem Services, Wu Yang, Thomas Dietz, Wei Liu, and Jianguo Liu
6. Landscape Changes in Space and Time, Andres Vina, Jianguo Liu
7. Panda Habitat Transition, Andres Vina, Mao-Ning Tuanmu, Jianguo Liu
8. Demographic Decisions and Cascading Consequences, Li An, Wu Yang, Zai Liang, Ashton Shortridge, Jianguo Liu
9. Dynamics of Economic Transformation, Wu Yang, Frank Lupi, Thomas Dietz, and Jianguo Liu
10. Energy Transition from Fuelwood to Electricity, Wei Liu, Andres Vina, Frank Lupi, Wu Yang, and Jianguo Liu
11. Social Capital and Social Norms Shape Human-Nature Interactions, Xiaodong Chen, Wu Yang, Vanessa Hull, Thomas Dietz, Ken Frank, Frank Lupi, and Jianguo Liu
12. Vulnerability and Adaptation to Natural Disasters, Wu Yang, Andres Vina, Thomas Dietz, Vanessa Hull, Daniel Kramer, Zhiyun Ouyang, Jianguo Liu
13. Human-Nature Interactions under Policy Interventions, Xiaodong Chen, Vanessa Hull, Wu Yang, and Jianguo Liu
14. Toward a Sustainable Future, Vanessa Hull, William McConnell, Marc Linderman, Jianguo Liu
PART III: ACROSS LOCAL TO GLOBAL COUPLED HUMAN AND NATURAL SYSTEMS
15. Applying Methods from Local to Regional Scales, Andres Vina, Weihua Xu, Zhiyun Ouyang, Jianguo Liu
16. Cross-Site Synthesis of Complexity in Coupled Human and Natural Systems, Neil Carter, Li An, Jianguo Liu
17. Socioeconomic and Environmental Interactions over Distances, Jianguo Liu, Vanessa Hull, Junyan Luo, Wu Yang, Wei Liu, Andres Vina, Christine Vogt, Zhenci Xu, Hongbo Yang, Jindong Zhang, Li An, Xiaodong Chen, Shuxin Li, William McConnell, Zhiyun Ouyang, Weihua Xu, Hemin Zhang
18. Lessons from Local Studies for Global Sustainability, Jianguo Liu, Vanessa Hull, Wu Yang, Andres Vina, Li An, Neil Carter, Xiaodong Chen, Wei Liu, Zhiyun Ouyang, Hemin Zhang
PART IV: PERSPECTIVES
19. Future Directions for Coupled Human and Natural Systems Research, Jianguo Liu, Vanessa Hull, Zhiyun Ouyang, Hemin Zhang