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Sustainability: science or fiction? [PDF]

Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy, 2006
it is clear that in making the concept of sustainable development concrete, one has to take into account a number of practical elements and obstacles. There is little doubt that integrated approaches are required to support sustainable development.
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Values, science, and competing paradigms in sustainability research : furthering the conversation

, 2021
Sustainability science is fundamentally a problem-driven and solutions-oriented science which necessitates engagement with questions of interdisciplinarity and normativity. Nagatsu et al.
Boda, Chad S,
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Threshold concepts and sustainability: features of a contested paradigm

FACETS, 2020
Threshold concepts describe the core concepts that people must master if they are to effectively think from within a new discipline or paradigm. Here, I discuss threshold concepts relevant to the science and practice of sustainability, unpacking the ...
Philip A. Loring
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Sustainable Development and Sustainable Science. Where We Came From, Where We Are Now and Where We Are Heading? Part II: An In-Depth Analysis of the Concept of Sustainable Development

Problemy Ekorozwoju, 2023
The concept of sustainable development (SD) is broad and moreover, it is often interchangeably used with the more general, but sometimes also more specific, concept of sustainability.
Magdalena Drastichová
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Making sense of power through transdisciplinary sustainability research: insights from a Transformative Power Lab [PDF]

, 2023
If transdisciplinary sustainability research is to contribute to sustainability transitions, issues of power dynamics need to be understood and accounted for. However, examples of concrete methods that put this into practice are sparse.
Wittmayer, Julia M., Marta Struminska-Kutra (16299875), Tessa de Geus, Magdalena Pitzer (16299878), Sabine Hielscher, Maria Fraaije, Vaishali Joshi (16299884), Julia M. Wittmayer, Flor Avelino (16234484), Strumińska-Kutra, Marta, Flor Avelino, Sabine Hielscher (4463110), Linda Widdel, Schrandt, Naomi, Fraaije, Maria, Hielscher, Sabine, Karoline Rogge, Tessa de Geus (16281323), Pitzer, Magdalena, Iskandarova, Marfuga, Avelino, Flor, Lara Hendrikx, Innovation Studies, Marfuga Iskandarova, Joshi, Vaishali, Lara Hendrikx (16299881), Geus, Tessa de, Magdalena Pitzer, Hendrikx, Lara, Maria Fraaije (16288916), Vaishali Joshi, Naomi Schrandt (16299887), Linda Widdel (16299890), Rogge, Karoline, Karoline Rogge (4464889), Widdel, Linda, Marta Strumińska-Kutra, Julia M Wittmayer (16281320), de Geus, Tessa, Marfuga Iskandarova (9226853), Naomi Schrandt, Organisations and Sustainability   +41 more
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Roads traveled and roads ahead: the consolidation of Mexican ethnobotany in the new millennium. An essay

Botan‪ical Sciences, 2022
This work examines the development of ethnobotany, focusing on Mexico in this millennium. How has the discipline grown? What is the relative importance of Spanish? Are there inflection points? How did some select areas develop, and why? Numerical growth
Heike Vibrans, Alejandro Casas
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Sustainable Sciences Institute [PDF]

Nature Chemical Biology, 2007
The Sustainable Sciences Institute is building the capacity of scientists in the developing world to address local problems.
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Reconfigurations in sustainability transitions: a systematic and critical review [PDF]

, 2020
Two streams of literature have become especially prominent in understanding social change toward sustainability within the past decades: the research on socio-technical transitions and applications of social practice theory. The aim of this article is to
Heiskanen, Eva, Aro, Riikka, Laakso, Senja, Kaljonen, Minna   +3 more
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Complex Land Systems: the Need for Long Time Perspectives to Assess their Future

Ecology and Society, 2010
The growing awareness about the need to anticipate the future of land systems focuses on how well we understand the interactions between society and environmental processes within a complexity framework.
John A. Dearing, Ademola K. Braimoh, Anette Reenberg, Billie L. Turner, Sander van der Leeuw   +4 more
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New directions in sustainability science: promoting integration and cooperation [PDF]

, 2016
Since this journal was launched in 2006 to provide a platform for the pioneers of sustainability science (Komiyama and Takeuchi 2006), the science has matured in the development of theory and methodologies to address the potentially devastating ...
Kauffman, Joanne, Arico, Salvatore
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