Over the last decade, sustainability science has emerged as an interdisciplinary and
innovative field attempting to conduct problem-driven research that links knowledge to …

Sustainability scientists continue to struggle with overcoming the reactive environmental
protection paradigm and focusing on the urgent and complex challenges that threaten the …

Over the last decade, sustainability science has been at the leading edge of widespread
efforts from the social and natural sciences to produce use-inspired research. Yet, how …

Global change and sustainability research increasingly focusses on informing and shaping
societal transformations towards more sustainable futures. Doing so, researchers encounter …

INTRODUCTION based knowledge for promoting sustainability has been impressive
indeed. The commitment of sustainability science to problem-driven agenda setting does not …

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

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

Sustainability science has developed from a new research field into a vibrant discipline in its
own right, with scientific conferences, journals and scientific societies dedicated to its …

Sustainability challenges are multitudinous, urgent, and complex. They are beyond the
capacities of our current institutions to address, caused by path-dependent behaviors, and …

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 …