In this thesis several models are developed and analyzed in an attempt to better un derstand the interaction of culture economic structure and the dynamics of human ecological economic systems Speci cally how does the ability of humans to change their individual behavior quickly and easily in response to changing environmental conditions behavioral plasticity alter the dynamics of human ecologi...

This study aims at the quantification of possible future nutrient loads into Lake Peipsi/Chudskoe under different economic development scenarios. This drainage basin is on the borders of Russia, Estonia and Latvia. The sudden disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991 caused a collapse of agricultural economy, and consequently, a substantial decrease of diffuse and point-source nutrient emissio...

This paper introduces a sustainability assessment method for the rapidly urbanizing Yangtze River Delta in China addressing the role of land use pattern. We first calculated the sustainability component scores of 16 cities in the area in 2000 and 2005. The results showed that socioeconomic and environmental conditions improved while the performance of resource-use degraded from 2000 to 2005. We...