The burgeoning literature on sustainability transformation agrees that values play a key,
albeit unelucidated, role on the transformation research agenda. Recent literature linking …

Despite the normative nature of sustainability, values and their role in sustainability
transformations are often discussed in vague terms, and when concrete conceptualizations …

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 …

Highlights•Transformation science explicitly addresses values and envisions desirable
futures.•Iterative, reflective learning processes facilitate the deliberation of trade …

The notion of transformation is gaining traction in contemporary sustainability debates. New
ways of theorising and supporting transformations are emerging and, so the argument goes …

This article provides a rationale for inner transformation as a key and hitherto
underresearched dimension of sustainability transformations. Inner transformation relates to …

Calls for transformation, transformative research, and transformational impact are
increasingly heard from governments, industry, and universities to recast a course towards …

There is broad agreement on the potential role of values to incite intentional transformative
change toward sustainability. However, there is no proposed heuristic on how to mobilize …

Although sustainability science and social-ecological systems research pursue very similar
goals, ie, generate problemand solution-oriented knowledge to foster sustainability …

After decades of inadequate responses to scientists' warnings about global environmental
threats, leading analysts of the science-policy interface are seeking an important shift of …