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  • Even though many efforts have been made for a more sustainable world, we haven't made enough progress yet.
  • Sustainability science needs to include more subjects like social sciences and arts to really help fix problems in society and the environment.
  • We need new ways of researching and making policies to work together with everyone and use all kinds of knowledge for a better planet.

Article Abstract

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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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7181980PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2020.04.010DOI Listing

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