Opening up knowledge–action systems to a wider range of disciplinary and societal actors is
considered to be a necessary step in achieving transformative change for sustainability. In …

Co-production has become paramount for scientists, practitioners and social groups of
Indigenous peoples and local communities of rural and urban areas to deliver transformative …

Transdisciplinary collaborative processes like knowledge co-production have been
promoted as valuable mechanisms to address complex environmental management issues …

Highlights•Surveys the challenges of undertaking complex sustainability science.•Addresses
difficulties of translating results into policy and practice.•Discusses the possibilities for …

The imperative to “link knowledge and action” is widely invoked as a defining characteristic
of sustainability research. The complexities of sustainability challenges such as climate …

Co-production, the collaborative weaving of research and practice by diverse societal actors,
is argued to play an important role in sustainability transformations. Yet, there is still poor …

In the field of sustainability, scholars, and policy-makers herald the transformative power of
participation in knowledge production. However, a discrepancy between these expectations …

Efforts to expand the delivery of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services are
occurring in the context of increasing pressures on the environmental and resource systems …

An increasing number of voices highlight the need for science itself to transform and to
engage in the co-production of knowledge and action, in order to enable the fundamental …

The complexity and importance of environmental, societal, and other challenges require
new forms of science and practice collaboration. We first describe the complementarity of …