This book presents a new analytical framework and several newly developed quantitative methods to investigate the interactions between climatic, ecological, and socioeconomic factors as a total socioecological system (TSES). Facing the increasingly deteriorated sustainability around the world in recent decades, it becomes one of the major challenges for scientific research and for society to understand the complex relationships between humans and environments. This book presents several solutions to these challenges based on the author's research findings in recent years and illustrates them with case studies and annotated data sets. It develops the conceptual framework of a (TSES) with an emphasis on identifying causal relationships embedded in TSES as a start point to investigate the interactions between biophysical phenomena and socioeconomic factors. The book experiments with various spatial data assimilation techniques such as GIS for matching diverged areal units over which biophysical and socioeconomic datasets are collected, and trend extraction methods including machine learning for synchronizing distinct temporal rhythms hidden in biophysical and socioeconomic phenomena to augment their causal relationships. The book also examines sustainability in urban systems, social systems, and ecosystems, which attract audiences in many disciplines, such as geographic information science, ecological informatics, environmental informatics, quantitative social sciences, regional and urban modeling and planning. weiterlesen