<i>Environmental Social Science</i> offers a new synthesis of environmental studies, defining the nature of human-environment interactions and providing the foundation for a new cross-disciplinary enterprise that will make critical theories and research methods accessible across the natural and social sciences. <ul><li>Makes key theories and methods of the social sciences available to biologists and other environmental scientists<li>Explains biological theories and concepts for the social sciences community working on the environment<li>Helps bridge one of the difficult divides in collaborative work in human-environment research<li>Includes much-needed descriptions of how to carry out research that is multinational, multiscale, multitemporal, and multidisciplinary within a complex systems theory context</ul>