The conference will address the following key questions:

1. Which system concepts best describe which types of social-ecological system?
2. What are the differences, complementarities and redundancies between the system resilience, adaptability and transformability concepts?
3. How do we explain social-ecological emergence? To what extent can agent-based models simulate change at higher system levels and what are their limitations? Which alternative approaches exist?
4. What are the experiences with stakeholder participation in social-ecological systems analysis?
5. How can social-ecological systems analysis contribute to social learning? What is required from science, higher education, schools, and further education? Which tools exist?
6. How can social-ecological systems analysis improve the sustainability prospects of the human/nature connection?