%0 book part %@ %A Ratter, B.M.W. %D 2012 %J Human-Nature Interactions in the Anthropocene: Potentials of Social-Ecological Systems Analysis %N %P 90-104 %T Complexity and emergence – Key concepts in non-linear dynamic systems %U %X This book deals with the potentials of social-ecological systems analysis for resolving sustainability problems. Contributors relate inter- and transdisciplinary perspectives to systemic dynamics, human behavior and the different dimensions and scales. With a problem-focused, sustainability-oriented approach to the analysis of human-nature relations, this text will be a useful resource for scholars of human and social ecology, geography, sociology, development studies, social anthropology and natural resources management.