Institutions, Ecosystems and Sustainability focuses on long-term, sust ainable natural resource management practices at the local, national, and international levels. The authors suggest that a major cause of th e "sustainability problem" - regulatory policies for large areas that often threaten the sustainability of both natural resources and previo usly effective governance problems - lie in "scale" problems. Large sc ale ecosystems are not simply larger versions of smaller systems, and micro-scale ecosystems are not merely microcosms of large scale system s. The driving forces and feedback...