Research practice, funding agencies and global science organizations suggest that
research aimed at addressing sustainability challenges is most effective when 'co …

Sustainability science needs more systematic approaches for mobilizing knowledge in
support of interventions that may bring about transformative change. In this Perspective, we …

The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods for Social-Ecological Systems provides a
synthetic guide to the range of methods that can be employed in social-ecological systems …

The tropics contain the overwhelming majority of Earth's biodiversity: their terrestrial,
freshwater and marine ecosystems hold more than three-quarters of all species, including …

Context A background assumption of landscape approaches is that some landscape
patterns are more sustainable than others, and thus searching for these patterns should be a …

Scholars, politicians, practitioners, and civil society increasingly call for sustainability
transformations to cope with urgent social and environmental challenges. In sustainability …

Transdisciplinary research is a promising approach to address sustainability challenges
arising from global environmental change, as it is characterized by an iterative process that …

Regional and global assessments periodically update what we know, and highlight what
remains to be known, about the linkages between people and nature that both define and …

Transdisciplinary research that bridges science and society is needed to address the
complex social-ecological sustainability challenges we are facing. However, many …

Both within science and society, transdisciplinary approaches are increasingly employed to
address today's sustainability challenges. Often transdisciplinary research processes are …