"...cutting edge...rigorous...demonstrates both originality and critical reflectiveness...almost uniquely in our collective experience, it speaks seriously, frankly, and insightfully to the challenges of institutionalizing the sort of work it reports on."
ESA Sustainability Science Award
"...the substance is ripe for harvesting."
Ecology
"This book...provides ample evidence that moving towards sustainability requires the successful identification, assessment and management of risk and uncertainty...it is knowledge-intensive."
Experimental Agriculture
"[This book] tells the 'human-environment' story of agriculture in this valley between 1993 and 2008....The contributors/researchers try to understand not only the challenges to the people and ecosystems of the valley, but how to address those challenges."
Choice
"Matson has provided a pathway for use-inspired, place-based research grounded in the realities of a historically important region. The book is destined to become a classic and oft-cited resource in the growing sustainability science literature."
Ecological Restoration
"Seeds of Sustainability would make a great book for introducing the ideals and complexity of sustainability to young scientists and curious citizens."
Natural Areas Journal