Global transformations: paSSAGE to a new ecological era / Eugene A. Rosa and Thomas Dietz -- World risk society as cosmopolitan society: ecological questions in a framework of manufactured uncertainties / Ulrich Beck -- Human driving forces of global change: dominant perspectives / Thomas Dietz, Eugene A. Rosa, and Richard York -- Progress in the study of land use/cover change and the outlook for the next decade / Emilio F. Moran -- The effectiveness of international environmental regimes / Oran R. Young -- Uncommon ground: critical perspectives on common property / Bonnie J. McCay and Svein Jentoft -- Vulnerability of coupled human-natural systems: a look backward and forward / Eugene A. Rosa and Thomas Dietz.