DahlemWorkshops -- List of Participants -- Foreword -- 1 Sustainability or Collapse -- 2 Human-Environment Interactions -- 3 Assessing and Communicating Data Quality -- 4 The Rise and Fall of the Ancient Maya -- 5 Climate, Complexity, and Problem Solving in the Roman Empire -- 6 Integration of Climatic, Archaeological, and Historical Data -- 7 The Trajectory of Human Evolution in Australia -- 8 Toward a Comparative Study of Hegemonic Decline in Global Systems -- 9 Group Report: Millennial Perspectives on the Dynamic Interaction of Climate, People, and Resources -- 10 RevolutionaryWeather -- 11 The Lie of History -- 12 Little Ice Age-type Impacts and the Mitigation of Social Vulnerability to Climate in the Swiss Canton of Bern prior to 1800 -- 13 Information Processing and Its Role in the Rise of the EuropeanWorld System -- 14 Group Report: Integrating Socioenvironmental Interactions over Centennial Timescales -- 15 ADecadal Chronology of 20th-Century Changes in Earth's Natural Systems -- 16 Social, Economic, and Political Forces in Environmental Change -- 17 Integrated Human-Environment Approaches of Land Degradation in Drylands -- 18 Group Report: Decadal-scale Interactions of Humans and the Environment -- 19 Scenarios -- 20 Evaluating Past Forecasts -- 21 Integrated Global Models -- 22 Group Report: Future Scenarios of Human-Environment Systems -- List of Acronyms -- Author Index -- Name Index -- Subject Index.