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Has sustainability science turned left?

open access: yes, 2021
As the urgent need for societies to steer towards sustainability is becoming increasingly apparent, sustainability science as a research community is facing difficult challenges successfully navigating the intensifying and often harsh political debates ...
Bodin, Örjan,
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Should sustainability and resilience be combined or remain distinct pursuits?

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2014
It has become common for sustainability science and resilience theory to be considered as complementary approaches. Occasionally the terms have been used interchangeably.
Charles L. Redman
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At the nexus of problem-solving and critical research

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2018
The analytical distinction between critical and problem-solving research is useful. At the onset of research, the latter takes the world as it is while the former questions it. Yet, in striving to integrate social and natural dimensions of sustainability
Yahia Mahmoud   +3 more
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Guiding principles for transdisciplinary sustainability research and practice

open access: yesPeople and Nature, 2023
Transdisciplinary sustainability scientists are called to conduct research with community actors to understand and improve relations between people and nature.
Maureen G. Reed   +15 more
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Growth, Collapse, and Reorganization of the Annapurna Conservation Area, Nepal: an Analysis of Institutional Resilience

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2010
Community-based conservation institutions can be conceptualized as complex adaptive systems that pass through a cycle of growth, maturation, collapse, and reorganization.
Nabin Baral   +2 more
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Stories of Sustainability: Birds, Bees, and Trees

open access: yes, 2020
Temple University. College of Science and TechnologyTemple University. College of Liberal ArtsBiologyGeography and Urban StudiesTemple Sustainability tackled urban ecology and sustainability in the city through different disciplinary lenses with our ...
Temple Sustainability
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Educated professionals of sustainability and the dimensions of practices [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to expand the competence-led structuring and understanding of sustainability education by analysing the practices of professional individuals who have completed university education geared to the development of ...
Salovaara, Janne J., Soini, Katriina
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Structuring Sustainability Science

open access: yes, 2010
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-health, land degradation, land use change and water scarcity ...
Baier, Matthias   +32 more
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Sociology for sustainability science

open access: yes, 2021
Sociological insights are often underutilized in sustainability science. To further strengthen its commitment to interdisciplinary problem-driven, solutions-oriented research, sustainability science can better incorporate fundamental sociological ...
York, Richard   +20 more
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Mobilizing transdisciplinary collaborations: collective reflections on decentering academia in knowledge production

open access: yesGlobal Sustainability, 2019
Global sustainability challenges and their impact on society have been well-documented in recent years, such as more intense extreme weather events, environmental degradation, as well as ecosystem and biodiversity loss.
Gabriela Alonso-Yanez   +5 more
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