1. Earth system science and society: a focus on the anthroposphere / Sarah E. Cornell, Catherine J. Downy, Evan D.G. Fraser and Emily Boyd
2. Fundamentals of climate change science / I. Colin Prentice, Peter G. Baines, Marko Scholze and Martin J. Wooster
3. How has climate responded to natural perturbations? / Eric W. Wolff, Sandy P. Harrison, Reto Knutti, Maria Fernanda Sanchez-Goñi, Oliver Wild, Anne-Laure Daniau, Valérie Masson-Delmotte, I. Colin Prentice and Renato Spahni
4. The Earth system feedbacks that matter for contemporary climate / Pierre Friedlingstein, Angela V. Gallego-Sala, Eleanor M. Blyth, Fiona E. Hewer, Sonia I. Seneviratne, Allan Spessa, Parvadha Suntharalingam and Marko Scholze
5. Earth system models: a tool to understand changes in the Earth system / Marko Scholze, J. Icarus Allen, Wiliam J. Collins, Sarah E. Cornell, Chris Huntingford, Manoj M. Joshi, Jason A. Lowe, Robin S. Smith and Oliver Wild
6. Climate change impacts and adaptation: an Earth system view / Richard A. Betts, Nigel W. Arnell, Penelope M. Boorman, Sarah E. Cornell, Joanna I. House, Neil R. Kaye, Douglas J. McNeall, Michael G. Sanderson and Andrew J. Wiltshire
7. The role of the land biosphere in climate change mitigation / Joanna I. House, Jessica Bellarby, Hannes Böttcher, Matthew Brander, Nicole Kalas, Pete Smith, Richard Tipper and Jeremy Woods
8. Society's responses and knowledge gaps / Sarah E. Cornell and I. Colin Prentice.
