Transforming Sustainability Science to Generate Positive Social and Environmental
Change Globally
#MMPMID33501419
Shrivastava P
; Stafford Smith M
; O'Brien K
; Zsolnai L
One Earth
2020[Apr]; 2
(4
): 329-340
PMID33501419
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Despite the decades-long efforts of sustainability science and related policy and
action programs, humanity has not gotten closer to global sustainability. With
its focus on the natural sciences, sustainability science is not able to
contribute sufficiently to the global transition to sustainability. This
Perspective argues for transforming sustainability science into a
transdisciplinary enterprise that can generate positive social and environmental
change globally. In such transformation, the social sciences, humanities, and the
arts can play an important role to address the complex problems of culture,
institutions, and human behavior. To realize a truly integrated sustainability
science, we need renewed research and public policies that reshape the research
ecosystem of universities, funding agencies, science communications,
policymaking, and decision making. Sustainability science must also engage with
society and creatively employ all available sources of knowledge in favor of
creating a sustainable Earth.
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