[The topics in this book focus on emerging research and policy in, a) sustainability science, b) the ecology of cities, c) landscape ecology, scale, spatial patterns, organizational levels, and ecological processes, and d) related topics in resource exploitation and management, the valuation of natural and social capital, habitat and biodiversity conservation, social learning, ecosystem based management, and integrated watershed-coastal zone management., The topics in this book focus on emerging research and policy in, a) sustainability science, b) the ecology of cities, c) landscape ecology, scale, spatial patterns, organizational levels, and ecological processes, and d) related topics in resource exploitation and management, the valuation of natural and social capital, habitat and biodiversity conservation, social learning, ecosystem based management, and integrated watershed-coastal zone management.]