The notion of 'transformations towards sustainability'takes an increasingly central position in
global sustainability research and policy discourse in recent years. Governance and politics …

Abstract The Earth System Governance project is a global research alliance that explores
novel, effective governance mechanisms to cope with the current transitions in the …

Transformative governance is key to addressing the global environmental crisis. We explore
how transformative governance of complex biodiversity–climate–society interactions can be …

It is urgent in science and society to address climate change and other sustainability
challenges such as biodiversity loss, deforestation, depletion of marine fish stocks, global ill …

Governments are no longer the most important source of decision making in the
environmental field. Instead, new actors are playing critical decision‐making roles, and new …

International environmental regimes—especially those regimes articulated in multilateral
environmental agreements—have been a subject of intense interest within the scientific …

Climate change is occurring, is caused largely by human activities, and poses significant
risks for-and in many cases is already affecting-a broad range of human and natural …

Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, conserving and enhancing
forest carbon stocks, and sustainably managing forests (REDD+) are emerging as a central …

The task of adapting cities to the impacts of climate change is of great importance—urban
areas are hotspots of high risk given their concentrations of population and infrastructure; …

Life on Earth has repeatedly displayed abrupt and massive changes in the past, and there is
no reason to expect that comparable planetary-scale regime shifts will not continue in the …