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This open access book provides a theoretical framework and case studies on decision science for regional sustainability by integrating the natural and social sciences. The cases discussed include solution-oriented transdisciplinary studies on the environment, disasters, health, governance and human cooperation. Based on these case studies and comprehensive reviews of relevant works, including lessons learned from past failures for predictable surprises and successes in adaptive co-management, the book provides the reader with new perspectives on how we can co-design collaborative projects with various conflicts of interest and how we can transform our society for a sustainable future. The book makes a valuable contribution to the global research initiative Future Earth, promoting transdisciplinary studies to bridge the gap between science and society in knowledge generation processes and supporting efforts to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Compared to other publications on transdisciplinary studies, this book is unique in that evolutionary biology is used as an integrator for various areas related to human decision-making, and approaches social changes as processes of adaptive learning and evolution. Given its scope, the book is highly recommended to all readers seeking an integrated overview of human decision-making in the context of social transformation.

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A compelling portrait of a group of boys as they navigate the complexities of being both American teenagers and good MuslimsThis book provides a uniquely personal look at the social worlds of a group of young male friends as they navigate the complexities of growing up Muslim in America. Drawing on three and a half years of intensive fieldwork in and around a large urban mosque, John O'Brien offers a compelling portrait of typical Muslim American teenage boys concerned with typical teenage issues-girlfriends, school, parents, being cool-yet who are also expected to be good, practicing Muslims who don't date before marriage, who avoid vulgar popular culture, and who never miss their prayers.Many Americans unfamiliar with Islam or Muslims see young men like these as potential ISIS recruits. But neither militant Islamism nor Islamophobia is the main concern of these boys, who are focused instead on juggling the competing cultural demands that frame their everyday lives. O'Brien illuminates how they work together to manage their "culturally contested lives" through subtle and innovative strategies-such as listening to profane hip-hop music in acceptably "Islamic" ways, professing individualism to cast their participation in communal religious obligations as more acceptably American, dating young Muslim women in ambiguous ways that intentionally complicate adjudications of Islamic permissibility, and presenting a "low-key Islam" in public in order to project a Muslim identity without drawing unwanted attention.Closely following these boys as they move through their teen years together, Keeping It Halal sheds light on their strategic efforts to manage their day-to-day cultural dilemmas as they devise novel and dynamic modes of Muslim American identity in a new and changing America.

Muslim youth --- Muslim men --- Muslims --- Social conditions. --- Cultural assimilation --- United States --- Race relations. --- Abdul. --- Adhan. --- Adolescence. --- Adult. --- African Americans. --- Alhamdulillah. --- Americans. --- Asr prayer. --- Bullying. --- Career. --- Courtship. --- Cultural identity. --- Cultural practice. --- Culture of the United States. --- Decision-making. --- Domestic violence. --- Enthusiasm. --- Ethnography. --- Everyday life. --- Fast food restaurant. --- Gender role. --- Graduate school. --- Gratitude. --- Hadith. --- Halal. --- Harassment. --- Headscarf. --- Hijab. --- Hip hop music. --- Hip hop. --- Homeland security. --- Iftar. --- Individualism. --- Ingroups and outgroups. --- Institution. --- Interfaith dialogue. --- Intimate relationship. --- Invocation. --- Islam in the United States. --- Islam. --- Islamic schools and branches. --- Islamophobia. --- Istighfar. --- Joseph in Islam. --- Kafir. --- Lecture. --- Listening. --- Lunch. --- Modesty. --- Morality. --- Mos Def. --- Mosque. --- Muhammad. --- Muslim Girl. --- Muslim. --- Parking lot. --- Peer group. --- Personal autonomy. --- Pew Research Center. --- Physical intimacy. --- Piety. --- Popular culture. --- Popular music. --- Popularity. --- Prayer. --- Premarital sex. --- Profanity. --- Quran. --- Rapping. --- Recitation. --- Religion. --- Religiosity. --- Religious community. --- Religious conversion. --- Religious identity. --- Romance (love). --- Safe sex. --- Salafi movement. --- Sexual intercourse. --- Sharia. --- Shirt. --- Snoop Dogg. --- Social dilemma. --- Social environment. --- Social group. --- Social status. --- Sociology. --- Subjectivity. --- Suggestion. --- Sunday school. --- T-shirt. --- Talib Kweli. --- The Other Hand. --- The Second Floor. --- Women in Islam. --- Writing process. --- Year. --- Youth culture. --- Youth program. --- Youth.