Introduction: reshaping environments: an opportunity for envisioning the future Helena Bender; Part I. Cases: 1. Costa Rica's dry north-west: a region in transition Blythe McLennan; 2. Reshaping land transport in Singapore: a policy perspective Sun Sheng Han; 3. Evaluating different ways of managing forested landscapes Kathryn Williams, Rebecca Ford, Ian Bishop and Eric Smith; 4. Changing the landscape management paradigm with farmers: a story of community-based resource management in the 'Heartbreak Hills', Victoria, Australia Ruth Beilin; 5. Meeting development goals without blowing your carbon budget Graham Moore; 6. The EGLE has landed: architecture reshaping schools for sustainable and effective learning Dominique Hes; 7. Reshaping the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia: progress in river basin management Michael Stewardson and Edward Maltby; 8. Burning questions: researching the meaning of fire in the Australian landscape Blythe McLennan and Ruth Beilin; Part II. Skills: 9. Critique, analysis and reflection: the study of reshaping environments Anna Bailey; 10. Working with complex issues in group situations Roger Hadgraft and Helena Bender; 11. Research methodology Kate Judith; Part III. Theory: 12. An interdisciplinary approach Clinton Golding; 13. Reshaping the environment: how complexity, post-normal science, uncertainty and risk help to conceptualise change Ruth Beilin; 14. Sustainability: a model for the future Helena Bender, Kate Judith and Ruth Beilin; 15. Human needs, wants and norms: some concepts for exploring sustainable human-environment relationships Kathryn Williams; 16. Conceptualising and thinking about environmental systems Graham Moore; 17. Why scale matters Blythe McLennan and Graham Moore.
