Emergence of human geoscience --- Atmosphere - the gaseous realm which supports human life --- Lithosphere - the solid realm which supports human life --- Hydrosphere - the water realm which supports human life --- Human Sphere - the Earth surface realm created by human --- World land resources at stake --- World soil resources at stake --- World water resources at stake --- Active fault and earthquake disasters --- Earthquake disasters and government committees --- Tsunami science and disaster prevention --- Volcanic eruption and human geoscience --- The 2014 eruption of Mt. Ontake Volcano and its disaster --- Mud volcanoes and human geoscience --- Land use change and flood risk transformation in urban area --- Landslides and human geoscience --- Nuclear disaster and human geoscience --- Population dynamics and the environment --- Urbanization: concept, mechanism and global implications --- Climate change we human are responsible for --- Anthropogenic lead pollution in the ocean --- Education for a sustainable society --- Geo-information sharing for sustainable development of human society --- Global sustainability programmes and human geoscience

This book is a product of the joint efforts of interdisciplinary academic fields under the integrative framework of human geoscience. Human geoscience is a new genre of geoscience concerned with the natural phenomena that occur on the surface of the Earth and their relations with human activities. It therefore has connections with many fields of geoscience, namely, physical geography, geomorphology, geology, soil science, sedimentology, seismology, volcanology, meteorology, climatology, oceanography, and hydrology. It also has strong links to the humanities, social sciences, agricultural sciences, and engineering related to disaster prevention or mitigation. All these disciplines are important fields for understanding disasters and global environmental problems and for evaluating the associated risks comprehensively, then proposing mitigation strategies.
The volume is designed for those who may not necessarily have a geoscience background but have broad scientific interest in understanding the causes, mechanisms, and consequences of geo-disasters and global environmental problems and wish to make the world more sustainable on that basis. The book consists of six parts: I. Introduction, II. Earth Surface Realms, III. Natural Resources and Society, IV. Natural Hazards and Society, V. Global Environmental Problems, and VI. Global Sustainability Programmes and Human Geoscience, which discusses the contribution of this field of science to a new comprehensive framework for global sustainability.