Against the backdrop of the increasing calls for scholars, universities and the broader
academic system to become more societally relevant and contribute to tackling various …

Process-oriented transdisciplinary research is generally seen as a promising approach to
facilitate sustainability transitions. This type of research requires new participatory roles for …

Technical summaryThe question of how science can become a lever in achieving the
Sustainable Development Goals permeates most recent sustainability research. Wide …

To tackle complex sustainability problems, science and practice must join forces and interact
in the processes of knowledge co-production. This central claim of sustainability science …

Over the last decade, a growing debate has emerged in the sustainability science
community around the need for transformative research. The latter refers to research …

Transformation research has in the past years emerged as a shared lens to study and
support radical societal change towards sustainability. Given the nascent and exploratory …

Summary The Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) explores the
characteristics, barriers and drivers of promising sustainability transformations, seeks …

In sustainability science, the tension between more descriptive–analytical and more process-
oriented approaches is receiving increasing attention. The latter entails a number of roles for …

A promising approach for addressing sustainability problems is to recognize the unique
conditions of a particular place, such as problem features and solution capabilities, and …

Reflexivity is a key expectation that researchers in transdisciplinary and transformative
research for sustainable development need to meet. Its aim is to enable researchers to deal …