Chapter 1. Introduction.- Part I: The global environmental situation.- Chapter 2. Environmental change: Human modification of nature - social and environmental consequences.- Chapter 3. Social change: Social agency and human relations with nature in the industrial society.- Chapter 4.

Policy change: Crisis of environmental policy and global governance.- Part II: Knowledge for renewing environmental governance.- Chapter 5. Environmental research and governance: Institutional problems of bridging knowledge divides and communicating science.- Chapter 6. Interdisciplinary knowledge integration for environmental governance: Epistemological questions.- Chapter 7. Social-ecological theory and global environmental governance.

- Part III: Towards the future society: World ecology and changing societal relations with nature.- Chapter 8. Global environmental change and the transformation of the earth system.- Chapter 9. Beyond globalisation: Another transformation of the economic world system.- Chapter 10. Rethinking and renewing global environmental governance as part of social-ecological transformation.