Sustainability Science

Robert W. Kates(The Institute for Bird Populations), William C. Clark(John F. Kennedy University), Robert W. Corell(American Meteorological Society), Jermaine Hall(NOAA Oceanic and Atmospheric Research), Carlo Jaeger(Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research), Ian Lowe(Griffith University), James J. McCarthy(Harvard University Press), Hans Joachim Schellnhuber(Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research), Bert Bolin(Bolin Centre for Climate Research), Nancy M. Dickson(John F. Kennedy University), Sylvie Faucheux(Institut de Recherche Pour le Développement), Gilberto C. Gallopín(United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean), Arnulf Grübler(International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis), Brian Huntley(South African National Biodiversity Institute), Jill Jäger(Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit), N. S. Jodha(International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development), Roger E. Kasperson(Stockholm Environment Institute), Akin L. Mabogunje(University of Ibadan), Pamela A. Matson(Stanford University), Harold A. Mooney(Stanford University), Berrien Moore(University of New Hampshire), Timothy O’Riordan(University of East Anglia), Uno Svedin(Swedish Research Council)
Science
April 27, 2001
10.1126/science.1059386
Cited by 2,519

Abstract

Meeting fundamental human needs while preserving Earth's life support systems will require an accelerated transition toward sustainability. A new field of sustainability science is emerging that seeks to understand the fundamental character of interactions between nature and society and to encourage those interactions along more sustainable trajectories. Such an integrated, place-based science will require new research strategies and institutional innovations to enable them especially in developing countries still separated by deepening divides from mainstream science. Sustainability science needs to be widely discussed in the scientific community, reconnected to the political agenda for sustainable development, and become a major focus for research.

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