How interdisciplinary is sustainability research? Analyzing the structure of an emerging scientific field

ED Schoolman, JS Guest, KF Bush, AR Bell - Sustainability Science, 2012 - Springer
Sustainability research is expected to incorporate concepts, methods, and data from a
diverse array of academic disciplines. We investigate the extent to which sustainability …

What kind of a science is sustainability science?

RW Kates - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
Sustainability science, as described by the PNAS website, is “... an emerging field of
research dealing with the interactions between natural and social systems, and with how …

Sustainability science: the changing landscape of sustainability research

Y Kajikawa, F Tacoa, K Yamaguchi - Sustainability science, 2014 - Springer
Sustainability science is a rapidly expanding field, particularly given the current ecological
crises facing many parts of the globe today. To generate a snapshot of the state of …

Demarcating transdisciplinary research in sustainability science—Five clusters of research modes based on evidence from 59 research projects

S Jahn, J Newig, DJ Lang, J Kahle… - Sustainable …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The discourse revolving around “new modes of knowledge production”—particularly in
sustainability‐oriented research—seems to suggest a duality of transdisciplinary versus non …

Towards institutional analysis of sustainability science: a quantitative examination of the patterns of research collaboration

M Yarime, Y Takeda, Y Kajikawa - Sustainability Science, 2010 - Springer
This paper examines quantitatively the patterns of collaboration over geographical
boundaries in the emerging field of sustainability science by empirically analyzing the …

A review of transdisciplinary research in sustainability science

P Brandt, A Ernst, F Gralla, C Luederitz, DJ Lang… - Ecological …, 2013 - Elsevier
Achieving the goal of sustainability requires understanding and management of
unprecedented and interconnected challenges. A transdisciplinary approach is a key …

Evolution and structure of sustainability science

LMA Bettencourt, J Kaur - Proceedings of the National …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
The concepts of sustainable development have experienced extraordinary success since
their advent in the 1980s. They are now an integral part of the agenda of governments and …

Unveiling scientific communities about sustainability and innovation. A bibliometric journey around sustainable terms

S Franceschini, LGD Faria, R Jurowetzki - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2016 - Elsevier
Literature about the relationship between innovation and sustainability has skyrocketed in
the last two decades and new terms have appeared. However, only very few bibliometric …

Sustainability in the collaborative economy: A bibliometric analysis reveals emerging interest

M Ertz, S Leblanc-Proulx - Journal of cleaner production, 2018 - Elsevier
The growing field of the collaborative economy is expanding geometrically and little
retrospective work on this evolution has been made so far. A number of literature reviews …

Sustainability science: building a new discipline

H Komiyama, K Takeuchi - Sustainability science, 2006 - Springer
A process of public announcement and rigorous peer review, including recommendations
from an International Review Panel, 1 resulted in the selection of Kyoto University, Osaka …