Recognizing our authors - Kazuhiko Takeuchi (Sustainability Science, 2019)

The politics of making and unmaking (sustainable) futures: introduction to the special feature - Henrike Knappe; Anne-Katrin Holfelder; David Löw Beer; Patrizia Nanz (Sustainability Science, 2019)

Sustainability and the future: reflections on the ethical and political significance of sustainability - Christopher Groves (Sustainability Science, 2019)

Building new foundations: the future of education from a degrowth perspective - Nadine Kaufmann; Christoph Sanders; Julian Wortmann (Sustainability Science, 2019)

Thinking about future/democracy: towards a political theory of futurity - Rosine Kelz (Sustainability Science, 2019)

Tools of the trade: practices and politics of researching the future in climate engineering - Sean Low; Stefan Schäfer (Sustainability Science, 2019)

Governing time for sustainability: analyzing the temporal implications of sustainability governance - Basil Bornemann; Holger Strassheim (Sustainability Science, 2019)

Towards a sustainable future with education? - Anne-Katrin Holfelder (Sustainability Science, 2019)

Futurizing politics and the sustainability of real-world experiments: what role for innovation and exnovation in the German energy transition? - Martin David; Matthias Gross (Sustainability Science, 2019)
The German energy transition towards more sustainable forms of energy production has been characterized as a large-scale or real-world experiment. Whereas experiments are open-ended processes set up explicitly to allow (or even generate) surprises, by contrast sustainability implies the pursuit of clearly defined, normative ends. Whereas much of the literature on system transformation builds on the concept of innovation, our hypothesis is that focusing on the “natural” flipside of innovation—called here “exnovation,” i.e., departing from unsustainable pathways—should also be seen as a valuable conceptual strategy for coping with the tension between the unavoidable indeterminacy resulting from unknown risks and the necessary amendment and redefinition of goals and rules. In this paper the German energy transition ( Energiewende ) is used to exemplify the recursive processes of experimentation that make it possible to accommodate surprise, and, thus, to conceptualize the unavoidable tension between innovation and the maintenance of older, unsustainable structures.

Future objects: tracing the socio-material politics of anticipation - Alejandro Esguerra (Sustainability Science, 2019)

Gesturing towards radical futurity in education for alternative futures - Sarah Amsler (Sustainability Science, 2019)

Futures of sustainability as modernization, transformation, and control: a conceptual framework - Frank Adloff; Sighard Neckel (Sustainability Science, 2019)

Future pasts: about a form of thought in modern society - Lucian Hölscher (Sustainability Science, 2019)

Scientific animations without borders (SAWBO): an innovative strategy for promoting education for sustainable development - María Angeles Rodriguez-Domenech; Julia Bello-Bravo; Barry R. Pittendrigh (Sustainability Science, 2019)

On the evaluation of adaptation practices: a transdisciplinary exploration of drought measures in Chile - Gloria Lillo-Ortega; Paulina Aldunce; Carolina Adler; Marcela Vidal; Maisa Rojas (Sustainability Science, 2019)

Evaluating the effectiveness of hazard mapping as climate change adaptation for community planning in degrading permafrost terrain - Melanie Flynn; James D. Ford; Jolène Labbé; Lothar Schrott; Shirley Tagalik (Sustainability Science, 2019)

Knowledge mobilization for community resilience: perspectives from data, informatics, and information science - Arika Virapongse; Ruth Duerr; Elizabeth Covelli Metcalf (Sustainability Science, 2019)

Collaborative lessons towards marine sustainability: a long-term collective engagement - Yorgos Stratoudakis; Helena Farrall; Lia Vasconcelos (Sustainability Science, 2019)

Influence of payment modes on farmers’ contribution to climate change adaptation: understanding differences using a choice experiment in Nepal - Uttam Khanal; Clevo Wilson; Boon L. Lee; Viet-Ngu Hoang; Shunsuke Managi (Sustainability Science, 2019)

Evaluating resilience for the management of social–ecological production landscapes and seascapes in Lefke Region of North Cyprus through adaptive comanagement - Gulay Cetinkaya Ciftcioglu (Sustainability Science, 2019)

Impacts of shifting to healthier food consumption patterns on environmental sustainability in MENA countries - Rachel Bahn; Sibelle EL Labban; Nahla Hwalla (Sustainability Science, 2019)

Participatory evaluation for adaptive co-management of social–ecological systems: a transdisciplinary research approach - Micaela Trimble; Ryan Plummer (Sustainability Science, 2019)

Business modelling in farm-based biogas production: towards network-level business models and stakeholder business cases for sustainability - Niklas P.E. Karlsson; Maya Hoveskog; Fawzi Halila; Marie Mattsson (Sustainability Science, 2019)

The trade-offs of win–win conservation rhetoric: exploring place meanings in community conservation on the Wild Coast, South Africa - Vanessa A. Masterson; Marja Spierenburg; Maria Tengö (Sustainability Science, 2019)

Sense of place in social–ecological systems: from theory to empirics - Vanessa A. Masterson; Johan P. Enqvist; Richard C. Stedman; Maria Tengö (Sustainability Science, 2019)

When places collide: power, conflict and meaning at Malheur - Micah L. Ingalls; Amy Kohout; Richard C. Stedman (Sustainability Science, 2019)

Integrating sense of place in planning and management of multifunctional river landscapes: experiences from five European case studies - Laura Verbrugge; Matthias Buchecker; Xavier Garcia; Sarah Gottwald; Stefanie Müller; Søren Præstholm; Anton Stahl Olafsson (Sustainability Science, 2019)

How local water and waterbody meanings shape flood risk perception and risk management preferences - Tara Quinn; Francois Bousquet; Chloe Guerbois; Lisa Heider; Katrina Brown (Sustainability Science, 2019)

Place-making to transform urban social–ecological systems: insights from the stewardship of urban lakes in Bangalore, India - Ailbhe Murphy; Johan P. Enqvist; Maria Tengö (Sustainability Science, 2019)

Reef Grief: investigating the relationship between place meanings and place change on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia - Nadine Marshall; William Neil Adger; Claudia Benham; Katrina Brown; Matthew I Curnock; Georgina G Gurney; Paul Marshall; Petina L Pert; Lauric Thiault (Sustainability Science, 2019)

Place meanings on the urban waterfront: a typology of stewardships - Johan P. Enqvist; Lindsay K. Campbell; Richard C. Stedman; Erika S. Svendsen (Sustainability Science, 2019)

Correction to: Action research workshop for transdisciplinary sustainability science - G. Tejedor; J. Segalas; G. Cebrián (Sustainability Science, 2019)

Sustainability of small-scale social-ecological systems in arid environments: trade-off and synergies of global and regional changes - Alicia Tenza; Julia Martínez-Fernández; Irene Pérez-Ibarra; Andrés Giménez (Sustainability Science, 2019)

Identifying transformational space for transdisciplinarity: using art to access the hidden third - Toddi A. Steelman; Evan Andrews; Sarah Baines; Lalita Bharadwaj; Emilie Rose Bjornson; Lori Bradford; Kendrick Cardinal; Gary Carriere; Jennifer Fresque-Baxter; Timothy D. Jardine; Ingrid MacColl; Stuart Macmillan; et al. (Sustainability Science, 2019)

Design features for social learning in transformative transdisciplinary research - Pauline Herrero; Tom Dedeurwaerdere; Agathe Osinski (Sustainability Science, 2019)

Complexity is no excuse - Beatrice Hedelin (Sustainability Science, 2019)

Place attachment and social–ecological system sustainability examined through the voices of indigenous Guatemalan women - Lilly Briggs; Richard Stedman; Marianne Krasny (Sustainability Science, 2019)

Correction to: Local knowledge, global ambitions: IPBES and the advent of multi-scale models and scenarios - Noam Obermeister (Sustainability Science, 2019)

Re-framing the decision context over trade-offs among ecosystem services and wellbeing in a major river basin where water resources are highly contested - Matthew J. Colloff; Tanya M. Doody; Ian C. Overton; James Dalton; Rebecca Welling (Sustainability Science, 2019)

Three pillars of sustainability: in search of conceptual origins - Ben Purvis; Yong Mao; Darren Robinson (Sustainability Science, 2019)

How to set up a transdisciplinary research project in Central Asia: description and evaluation - Laura Woltersdorf; Petra Lang; Petra Döll (Sustainability Science, 2019)

Local knowledge, global ambitions: IPBES and the advent of multi-scale models and scenarios - Noam Obermeister (Sustainability Science, 2019)

Interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research: finding the common ground of multi-faceted concepts - Henrik von Wehrden; Maria Helena Guimarães; Olivia Bina; Marta Varanda; Daniel J. Lang; Beatrice John; Fabienne Gralla; Doris Alexander; Dorit Raines; Allen White; Roderick John Lawrence (Sustainability Science, 2019)

The guiding logics and principles for designing emergent transdisciplinary research processes: learning experiences and reflections from a transdisciplinary urban case study in Enkanini informal settlement, South Africa - John van Breda; Mark Swilling (Sustainability Science, 2019)

The contributions of UNESCO Man and Biosphere Programme and biosphere reserves to the practice of sustainability science - Maureen G. Reed (Sustainability Science, 2019)

Co-production of salient, credible and legitimate environmental knowledge: Cambodia National REDD+ Strategy - Pheakkdey Nguon (Sustainability Science, 2019)

Sustainable development goal 6: two gaps in the race for indicators - Lisa Guppy; Praem Mehta; Manzoor Qadir (Sustainability Science, 2019)

Understanding PES from the ground up: a combined choice experiment and interview approach to understanding PES in Costa Rica - Karen E. Allen; Gregory Colson (Sustainability Science, 2019)

Determining nature’s contributions to achieve the sustainable development goals - Christopher B. Anderson; Cristiana S. Seixas; Olga Barbosa; M. Siobhan Fennessy; Julio Díaz-José; Bernal Herrera-F. (Sustainability Science, 2019)

What and how are we sharing? A systematic review of the sharing paradigm and practices - Hyeonju Ryu; Mrittika Basu; Osamu Saito (Sustainability Science, 2019)

Leverage points for improving gender equality and human well-being in a smallholder farming context - Aisa O. Manlosa; Jannik Schultner; Ine Dorresteijn; Joern Fischer (Sustainability Science, 2019)

Correction to: Integrating design thinking with sustainability science: a Research through Design approach - Ray Maher; Melanie Maher; Samuel Mann; Clive A. McAlpine (Sustainability Science, 2019)

Japan’s mega solar boom: quantifying social equity expectations and realities at the local scale - Andrew Chapman; Timothy Fraser (Sustainability Science, 2019)

Correction to: Closing remarks: novel approaches to complex societal change and sustainability - Sander van der Leeuw (Sustainability Science, 2019)

Exploring solutions for healthy, safe, and sustainable fatty acids (EPA and DHA) consumption in The Netherlands - A. Hollander; R. De Jonge; S. Biesbroek; J. Hoekstra; M. C. Zijp (Sustainability Science, 2019)

Reforming local public finance to reduce resource consumption: the sustainability case for graduated property taxation - Maurie J. Cohen (Sustainability Science, 2019)

Prioritising SDG targets: assessing baselines, gaps and interlinkages - Cameron Allen; Graciela Metternicht; Thomas Wiedmann (Sustainability Science, 2019)

Burn or bury? A comparative cost–benefit analysis of crop residue management practices among smallholder rice farmers in northern Vietnam - Markus Keck; Dao Trong Hung (Sustainability Science, 2019)

Innovations for sustainable lifestyles: an agent-based model approach - P. Allen; M. Robinson; E. Butans; L. Varga (Sustainability Science, 2019)

The nexus between water, energy and food in cities: towards conceptualizing socio-material interconnections - Moises Covarrubias (Sustainability Science, 2019)

A computational approach to managing coupled human–environmental systems: the POSEIDON model of ocean fisheries - Richard M. Bailey; Ernesto Carrella; Robert Axtell; Matthew G. Burgess; Reniel B. Cabral; Michael Drexler; Chris Dorsett; Jens Koed Madsen; Andreas Merkl; Steven Saul (Sustainability Science, 2019)

Impacts of Ghana’s Bui dam hydroelectricity project on the livelihood of downstream non-resettled communities - Kwadwo Owusu; Alex Boakye Asiedu; Paul William Kojo Yankson; Yaw Agyeman Boafo (Sustainability Science, 2019)

Accounting shadow benefits of non-market food through food-sharing networks on Hachijo Island, Japan - Kana Tatebayashi; Chiho Kamiyama; Takanori Matsui; Osamu Saito; Takashi Machimura (Sustainability Science, 2019)

Blue carbon in coastal landscapes: a spatial framework for assessment of stocks and additionality - K. Rogers; P. I. Macreadie; J. J. Kelleway; N. Saintilan (Sustainability Science, 2019)

Towards a classification of the drivers of jatropha collapse in Ghana elicited from the perceptions of multiple stakeholders - Abubakari Ahmed; Benjamin Betey Campion; Alexandros Gasparatos (Sustainability Science, 2019)

Underuse/overuse and diversity of provisioning services and their change: the case of the Japanese national ecosystem service assessment (JBO2) - Takafumi Ohsawa; Takahiro Okano; Fumiko Nakao; Kei Kabaya; Satoshi Kofuku; Kokoro Kikuchi; Tohru Nakashizuka (Sustainability Science, 2019)

How transdisciplinary projects influence participants’ ways of thinking: a case study on future landscape development - Silvia Tobias; Maarit F. Ströbele; Tobias Buser (Sustainability Science, 2019)

Future scenarios for socio-ecological production landscape and seascape - Osamu Saito; Shizuka Hashimoto; Shunsuke Managi; Masahiro Aiba; Takehisa Yamakita; Rajarshi DasGupta; Kazuhiko Takeuchi (Sustainability Science, 2019)

Biodiversity/ecosystem services scenario exercises from the Asia–Pacific: typology, archetypes and implications for sustainable development goals (SDGs) - Rajarshi DasGupta; Shizuka Hashimoto; Haripriya Gundimeda (Sustainability Science, 2019)

Scenario-based land change modelling in the Indian Sundarban delta: an exploratory analysis of plausible alternative regional futures - Rajarshi DasGupta; Shizuka Hashimoto; Toshiya Okuro; Mrittika Basu (Sustainability Science, 2019)

Understanding island residents’ anxiety about impacts caused by climate change using Best–Worst Scaling: a case study of Amami islands, Japan - Takahiro Kubo; Takahiro Tsuge; Hiroya Abe; Hiroya Yamano (Sustainability Science, 2019)

Importance of national or regional specificity in the relationship between pollinator dependence and production stability - Michio Oguro; Hisatomo Taki; Akihiro Konuma; Masahito Uno; Tohru Nakashizuka (Sustainability Science, 2019)

Exploring the relationship between ecosystems and human well-being by understanding the preferences for natural capital-based and produced capital-based ecosystem services - Keiko Hori; Chiho Kamiyama; Osamu Saito (Sustainability Science, 2019)

Scenario analysis of land-use and ecosystem services of social-ecological landscapes: implications of alternative development pathways under declining population in the Noto Peninsula, Japan - Shizuka Hashimoto; Rajarshi DasGupta; Kei Kabaya; Takanori Matsui; Chihiro Haga; Osamu Saito; Kazuhiko Takeuchi (Sustainability Science, 2019)

Views from two mountains: exploring climate change impacts on traditional farming communities of Eastern Africa highlands through participatory scenarios - Claudia Capitani; Weyessa Garedew; Amsalu Mitiku; Gezahegn Berecha; Binyam Tesfau Hailu; Janne Heiskanen; Pekka Hurskainen; Philip J. Platts; Mika Siljander; Fabrice Pinard; Tino Johansson; Robert Marchant (Sustainability Science, 2019)

A novel approach for co-producing positive scenarios that explore agency: case study from the Canadian Arctic - Marianne Falardeau; Ciara Raudsepp-Hearne; Elena M. Bennett (Sustainability Science, 2019)

Simulation of natural capital and ecosystem services in a watershed in Northern Japan focusing on the future underuse of nature: by linking forest landscape model and social scenarios - Chihiro Haga; Takahiro Inoue; Wataru Hotta; Rei Shibata; Shizuka Hashimoto; Hiroko Kurokawa; Takashi Machimura; Takanori Matsui; Junko Morimoto; Hideaki Shibata (Sustainability Science, 2019)

Development of land-use scenarios using vegetation inventories in Japan - Kikuko Shoyama; Takanori Matsui; Shizuka Hashimoto; Kei Kabaya; Akiko Oono; Osamu Saito (Sustainability Science, 2019)

The seasonal and scale-dependent associations between vegetation quality and hiking activities as a recreation service - Masahiro Aiba; Rei Shibata; Michio Oguro; Tohru Nakashizuka (Sustainability Science, 2019)

Spatially explicit residential and working population assumptions for projecting and assessing natural capital and ecosystem services in Japan - Takanori Matsui; Chihiro Haga; Osamu Saito; Shizuka Hashimoto (Sustainability Science, 2019)

Valuing natural capital and ecosystem services: a literature review - Moinul Islam; Rintaro Yamaguchi; Yogi Sugiawan; Shunsuke Managi (Sustainability Science, 2019)

Future inclusive wealth and human well-being in regional Japan: projections of sustainability indices based on shared socioeconomic pathways - Shinya Ikeda; Shunsuke Managi (Sustainability Science, 2019)

Co-design of national-scale future scenarios in Japan to predict and assess natural capital and ecosystem services - Osamu Saito; Chiho Kamiyama; Shizuka Hashimoto; Takanori Matsui; Kikuko Shoyama; Kei Kabaya; Tomoko Uetake; Hisatomo Taki; Yoichi Ishikawa; Kyohei Matsushita; Fumihiro Yamane; Juri Hori; et al. (Sustainability Science, 2019)

Investigating future ecosystem services through participatory scenario building and spatial ecological–economic modelling - Kei Kabaya; Shizuka Hashimoto; Narufumi Fukuyo; Tomoko Uetake; Kazuhiko Takeuchi (Sustainability Science, 2019)

Future land use management effects on ecosystem services under different scenarios in the Wabe River catchment of Gurage Mountain chain landscape, Ethiopia - Mesfin Sahle; Osamu Saito; Christine Fürst; Sebsebe Demissew; Kumelachew Yeshitela (Sustainability Science, 2019)

Advancing sustainability science for the SDGs - Mark Stafford Smith; Christina Cook; Youba Sokona; Thomas Elmqvist; Kensuke Fukushi; Wendy Broadgate; Marcin Pawel Jarzebski (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Integrating design thinking with sustainability science: a Research through Design approach - Ray Maher; Melanie Maher; Samuel Mann; Clive A. McAlpine (Sustainability Science, 2018)
Design disciplines have a long history of creating well-integrated solutions to challenges which are complex, uncertain and contested by multiple stakeholders. Society faces similar challenges in implementing the Sustainable Development Goals, so design methods hold much potential. While principles of good design are well established, there has been limited integration of design thinking with sustainability science. To advance this integration, we examine the process of designing MetaMAP: an interactive graphic tool for collaborating to understand social–ecological systems and design well-integrated solutions. MetaMAP was created using Research through Design methods which integrate creative and scientific thinking. By applying design thinking, researchers and practitioners from different backgrounds undertook multiple cycles of problem framing, solution development, testing and reflection. The testing was highly collaborative involving over 150 people from diverse disciplines in workshops, case studies, interviews and critique. Reflecting on this process, we discuss design principles and opportunities for integrating design thinking with sustainability science to help achieve Sustainable Development Goals.

Urban tinkering - Thomas Elmqvist; José Siri; Erik Andersson; Pippin Anderson; Xuemei Bai; Pranab Kishore Das; Tatu Gatere; Andrew Gonzalez; Julie Goodness; Steven N. Handel; Ellika Hermansson Török; Jessica Kavonic; et al. (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Framing natural assets for advancing sustainability research: translating different perspectives into actions - Maria Jose Martinez-Harms; Stefan Gelcich; Rainer M. Krug; Fleur J. F. Maseyk; Hannah Moersberger; Archi Rastogi; Geoffrey Wambugu; Cornelia B. Krug; Eva M. Spehn; Unai Pascual (Sustainability Science, 2018)
Sustainability is a key challenge for humanity in the context of complex and unprecedented global changes. Future Earth, an international research initiative aiming to advance global sustainability science, has recently launched knowledge–action networks (KANs) as mechanisms for delivering its research strategy. The research initiative is currently developing a KAN on “natural assets” to facilitate and enable action-oriented research and synthesis towards natural assets sustainability. ‘Natural assets’ has been adopted by Future Earth as an umbrella term aiming to translate and bridge across different knowledge systems and different perspectives on peoples’ relationships with nature. In this paper, we clarify the framing of Future Earth around natural assets emphasizing the recognition on pluralism and identifying the challenges of translating different visions about the role of natural assets, including via policy formulation, for local to global sustainability challenges. This understanding will be useful to develop inter-and transdisciplinary solutions for human–environmental problems by (i) embracing richer collaborative decision processes and building bridges across different perspectives; (ii) giving emphasis on the interactions between biophysical and socioeconomic drivers affecting the future trends of investments and disinvestments in natural assets; and (iii) focusing on social equity, power relationships for effective application of the natural assets approach. This understanding also intends to inform the scope of the natural asset KAN’s research agenda to mobilize the translation of research into co-designed action for sustainability.

Mapping interactions between the sustainable development goals: lessons learned and ways forward - Måns Nilsson; Elinor Chisholm; David Griggs; Philippa Howden-Chapman; David McCollum; Peter Messerli; Barbara Neumann; Anne-Sophie Stevance; Martin Visbeck; Mark Stafford-Smith (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Sustainable food systems—a health perspective - Elisabet Lindgren; Francesca Harris; Alan D. Dangour; Alexandros Gasparatos; Michikazu Hiramatsu; Firouzeh Javadi; Brent Loken; Takahiro Murakami; Pauline Scheelbeek; Andy Haines (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Closing remarks: novel approaches to complex societal change and sustainability - Sander van der Leeuw (Sustainability Science, 2018)
This paper summarizes some personal impressions of the 7th conference of the International Complex Systems Society, co-organized with “Future Earth”, held in Stockholm on August 24–26, 2017. The main point is that it is urgent and important to consider the sustainability conundrum as long-term, society-driven one, and to place societal dynamics at the core of how we, as a global society, came to this point, how ongoing dynamics are driving us towards a tipping point, and which role the Information and Communication Technology revolution plays in that process. A much wider involvement of the social sciences is essential. This also requires major changes in our thinking about sustainability—we need to develop an approach in which change is the natural state of affairs and societies attempt to impose stability on the dynamics involved. We need to focus on learning from the past, about the present, but above all for the future. And we need to shift from an entity-focused approach to a relational one, which pays more attention to contexts and networks. Other issues raised by such a shift in our thinking are about the role of science, the adoption of complex systems approaches and a few others that the paper points to.

Transforming systems of consumption and production for achieving the sustainable development goals: moving beyond efficiency - Magnus Bengtsson; Eva Alfredsson; Maurie Cohen; Sylvia Lorek; Patrick Schroeder (Sustainability Science, 2018)

People, technology, and governance for sustainability: the contribution of systems and cyber-systemic thinking - Sergio Barile; Fabio Orecchini; Marialuisa Saviano; Francesca Farioli (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Sustainable management of construction site big visual data - Andrej Tibaut; Damjan Zazula (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Overcoming barriers to sustainability by combining conceptual, visual, and networking systems - Ray Maher; Melanie Maher; Clive A. McAlpine; Samuel Mann; Leonie Seabrook (Sustainability Science, 2018)

From disagreements to dialogue: unpacking the Golden Rice debate - Annika J. Kettenburg; Jan Hanspach; David J. Abson; Joern Fischer (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Providing sound theoretical roots to sustainability science: systems science and (second-order) cybernetics - Lucio Biggiero (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Governing in the Anthropocene: are there cyber-systemic antidotes to the malaise of modern governance? - Ray Ison; Jason Alexandra; Phil Wallis (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Human–nature connectedness as a ‘treatment’ for pro-environmental behavior: making the case for spatial considerations - Kathleen Klaniecki; Julia Leventon; David J. Abson (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Governance for sustainability: a triple-helix model - Massimo Scalia; Sergio Barile; Marialuisa Saviano; Francesca Farioli (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Social business as a sustainable business model: making capitalism anti-fragile - Xhimi Hysa; Erald Zerba; Mario Calabrese; Clara Bassano (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Initial progress in implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): a review of evidence from countries - Cameron Allen; Graciela Metternicht; Thomas Wiedmann (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Anishnaabe Aki: an indigenous perspective on the global threat of invasive species - Nicholas J. Reo; Laura A. Ogden (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Sustainability: definition and five core principles, a systems perspective - Michael U. Ben-Eli (Sustainability Science, 2018)

A system dynamics perspective on a viable systems approach definition for sustainable value - Francesca Iandolo; Sergio Barile; Stefano Armenia; Luca Carrubbo (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Evaluating knowledge integration and co-production in a 2-year collaborative learning process with smallholder dairy farmer groups - Maria J. Restrepo; Margareta A. Lelea; Brigitte A. Kaufmann (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Engaging stakeholders in research to address water–energy–food (WEF) nexus challenges - C. Hoolohan; A. Larkin; C. McLachlan; R. Falconer; I. Soutar; J. Suckling; L. Varga; I. Haltas; A. Druckman; D. Lumbroso; M. Scott; D. Gilmour; et al. (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Investigating the role of smartness for sustainability: insights from the Smart Grid domain - Francesco Caputo; Barbora Buhnova; Leonard Walletzký (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Communities of practice for knowledge co-creation on sustainable dairy farming: features for value creation for farmers - L. Triste; L. Debruyne; J. Vandenabeele; F. Marchand; L. Lauwers (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Crossing technology and sustainability in cities’ development - Francesco Bifulco; Anna D’Auria; Cristina Caterina Amitrano; Marco Tregua (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Systemic design for sustainability - Markus Schwaninger (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Assessing local-scale inclusive wealth: a case study of Sado Island, Japan - Yuki Yoshida; Hirotaka Matsuda; Kensuke Fukushi; Shinya Ikeda; Shunsuke Managi; Kazuhiko Takeuchi (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Reconnecting with nature for sustainability - Christopher D. Ives; David J. Abson; Henrik von Wehrden; Christian Dorninger; Kathleen Klaniecki; Joern Fischer (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Recognizing our authors - Kazuhiko Takeuchi (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Towards defining an environmental investment universe within planetary boundaries - Christoph Butz; Jürg Liechti; Julia Bodin; Sarah E. Cornell (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Institutional challenges for corporate participation in payments for ecosystem services (PES): insights from Southeast Asia - Benjamin S. Thompson (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Sense of place and experimentation in urban sustainability transitions: the Resilience Lab in Carnisse, Rotterdam, The Netherlands - Niki Frantzeskaki; Frank van Steenbergen; Richard C. Stedman (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Living sustainability, or merely pretending? From explicit self-report measures to implicit cognition - Gerald Steiner; Bernhard Geissler; Günther Schreder; Lukas Zenk (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Towards a general sustainability assessment of human/industrial and nature-based solutions - Thomas Schaubroeck (Sustainability Science, 2018)

How can wages sustain a living? By getting ahead of the curve - Stuart Colin Carr; Molefe Maleka; Ines Meyer; Marie-Louise Barry; Jarrod Haar; Jane Parker; James Arrowsmith; Christian Yao; Darrin Hodgetts; Harvey Jones; Amanda Young-Hausner; Emeline Afeaki-Mafile’o; et al. (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Comparing sustainable development measurement based on different priorities: sustainable development goals, economics, and human well-being—Southeast Europe case - Noam Lior; Mirjana Radovanović; Sanja Filipović (Sustainability Science, 2018)

The success of transdisciplinary research for sustainable land use: individual perceptions and assessments - Jana Zscheischler; Sebastian Rogga; Andrej Lange (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Boundary spanning at the science–policy interface: the practitioners’ perspectives - A. T. Bednarek; C. Wyborn; C. Cvitanovic; R. Meyer; R. M. Colvin; P. F. E. Addison; S. L. Close; K. Curran; M. Farooque; E. Goldman; D. Hart; H. Mannix; et al. (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Institutional multiplexity: social networks and community-based natural resource management - Michael Schnegg (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Toward designing sustainability education programs: a survey of master’s programs through semi-structured interviews - Yusuke Kishita; Michinori Uwasu; Keishiro Hara; Masashi Kuroda; Hiroyuki Takeda; Yasushi Umeda; Yoshiyuki Shimoda (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Assessing urban agriculture potential: a comparative study of Osaka, Japan and New York city, United States - Yuji Hara; Timon McPhearson; Yuki Sampei; Brian McGrath (Sustainability Science, 2018)

How geoengineering scenarios frame assumptions and create expectations - Anita Talberg; Sebastian Thomas; Peter Christoff; David Karoly (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Mind the gap: The role of mindfulness in adapting to increasing risk and climate change - Christine Wamsler (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Correction to: Ecological distribution conflicts as forces for sustainability: an overview and conceptual framework - Arnim Scheidel; Leah Temper; Federico Demaria; Joan Martínez-Alier (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Disasters as opportunities for sustainability: the case of Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand - Katja Brundiers (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Hydro-social arrangements and paradigmatic change in water governance: an analysis of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) - Viviana Wiegleb; Antje Bruns (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Inequality, poverty, and the carbon intensity of human well-being in the United States: a sex-specific analysis - Andrew K. Jorgenson; Thomas Dietz; Orla Kelly (Sustainability Science, 2018)

A reflexive assessment of a regional initiative in the agri-food system to test whether and how it meets the premises of transdisciplinary research - Marianne Hubeau; Fleur Marchand; Ine Coteur; Lies Debruyne; Guido Van Huylenbroeck (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Unpacking factors influencing antimicrobial use in global aquaculture and their implication for management: a review from a systems perspective - Patrik J. G. Henriksson; Andreu Rico; Max Troell; Dane H. Klinger; Alejandro H. Buschmann; Sonja Saksida; Mohan V. Chadag; Wenbo Zhang (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Erratum to: Negotiating with the future: incorporating imaginary future generations into negotiations - Yoshio Kamijo; Asuka Komiya; Nobuhiro Mifune; Tatsuyoshi Saijo (Sustainability Science, 2018)

The Global Environmental Justice Atlas (EJAtlas): ecological distribution conflicts as forces for sustainability - Leah Temper; Federico Demaria; Arnim Scheidel; Daniela Del Bene; Joan Martinez-Alier (Sustainability Science, 2018)

More dams, more violence? A global analysis on resistances and repression around conflictive dams through co-produced knowledge - Daniela Del Bene; Arnim Scheidel; Leah Temper (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Violence in environmental conflicts: the need for a multidimensional approach - Grettel Navas; Sara Mingorria; Bernardo Aguilar-González (Sustainability Science, 2018)

The quest for environmental justice in China: citizen participation and the rural–urban network against Panguanying’s waste incinerator - Thomas Johnson; Anna Lora-Wainwright; Jixia Lu (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Environmental justice and the expanding geography of wind power conflicts - Sofia Avila (Sustainability Science, 2018)

A perspective on radical transformations to sustainability: resistances, movements and alternatives - Leah Temper; Mariana Walter; Iokiñe Rodriguez; Ashish Kothari; Ethemcan Turhan (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Sri Lanka: a political ecology of socio-environmental conflicts and development projects - Paola Bianca Camisani (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Power in participatory processes: reflections from multi-stakeholder workshops in the Horn of Africa - J. Michael Denney; Paul Michael Case; Alexander Metzger; Maria Ivanova; Araya Asfaw (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Inside and beyond the Petro-State frontiers: geography of environmental conflicts in Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution - Emiliano Teran-Mantovani (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Ecological distribution conflicts as forces for sustainability: an overview and conceptual framework - Arnim Scheidel; Leah Temper; Federico Demaria; Joan Martínez-Alier (Sustainability Science, 2018)

On the road to ‘research municipalities’: analysing transdisciplinarity in municipal ecosystem services and adaptation planning - Ebba Brink; Christine Wamsler; Maria Adolfsson; Monica Axelsson; Thomas Beery; Helena Björn; Torleif Bramryd; Nils Ekelund; Therese Jephson; Widar Narvelo; Barry Ness; K. Ingemar Jönsson; et al. (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Trends in social metabolism and environmental conflicts in four Andean countries from 1970 to 2013 - Mario Pérez-Rincón; Julieth Vargas-Morales; Zulma Crespo-Marín (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Ecological distribution conflicts and sustainability: lessons from the post-socialist European semi-periphery - Jovanka Špirić (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Advancing to a Circular Economy: three essential ingredients for a comprehensive policy mix - Leonidas Milios (Sustainability Science, 2018)
Material resources exploitation and the pressure on natural ecosystems have raised concerns over potential future resource risks and supply failures worldwide. Interest in the concept of Circular Economy has surged in recent years among policy makers and business actors. An increasing amount of literature touches upon the conceptualisation of Circular Economy, the development of ‘circular solutions’ and circular business models, and policies for a Circular Economy. However, relevant studies on resource efficiency policies mostly utilise a case-by-case or sector-by-sector approach and do not consider the systemic interdependencies of the underlying operational policy framework. In this contribution, a mapping of the existing resource policy framework in the European Union (EU) is undertaken, and used as a basis for identifying policy areas that have been less prominent in influencing material resource efficiency. Employing a life cycle approach, policies affecting material efficiency in the production and consumption stages of a product have been found to be poorly utilised so far in the EU. Taking this as a point of departure, three policy areas that can contribute to closing material loops and increasing resource efficiency are thoroughly discussed and their application challenges are highlighted. The three policy areas are: (1) policies for reuse, repair and remanufacturing; (2) green public procurement and innovation procurement; and (3) policies for improving secondary materials markets. Finally, a potential policy mix, including policy instruments from the three mentioned policy areas—together with policy mixing principles—is presented to outline a possible pathway for transitioning to Circular Economy policy making.

Community-led reforestation: cultivating the potential of virtuous cycles to confer resilience in disaster disrupted social–ecological systems - Keith G. Tidball; Sara Metcalf; Mark Bain; Thomas Elmqvist (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Modeling normativity in sustainability: a comparison of the sustainable development goals, the Paris agreement, and the papal encyclical - Gregor Schmieg; Esther Meyer; Isabell Schrickel; Jeremias Herberg; Guido Caniglia; Ulli Vilsmaier; Manfred Laubichler; Erich Hörl; Daniel Lang (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Developing joint educational programs in sustainability science across different universities: a case study from Japan - Makoto Tamura; Motoharu Onuki; Makiko Sekiyama; Keishiro Hara; Michinori Uwasu; Nobuyuki Tsuji; Gakushi Ishimura; Noriyuki Tanaka; Akihisa Mori; Takashi Mino (Sustainability Science, 2018)

The map of conflicts related to environmental injustice and health in Brazil - Diogo Ferreira da Rocha; Marcelo Firpo Porto; Tania Pacheco; Jean Pierre Leroy (Sustainability Science, 2018)

The diffusion of sustainable family farming practices in Colombia: an emerging sociotechnical niche? - Willington Ortiz; Ulli Vilsmaier; Álvaro Acevedo Osorio (Sustainability Science, 2018)

An empirical assessment of rural livelihood assets from gender perspective: evidence from Ghana - Gideon Baffoe; Hirotaka Matsuda (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Commentary on ‘A renewed focus on water security within the 2030 agenda for sustainable development’ - Chris Gordon (Sustainability Science, 2018)

‘We have a right to breathe clean air’: the emerging environmental justice movement against waste incineration in cement kilns in Spain - Amaranta Herrero; Mariel Vilella (Sustainability Science, 2018)

The politics of making and un-making (sustainable) futures - Henrike Knappe; Anne-Katrin Holfelder; David Löw Beer; Patrizia Nanz (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Call for papers for “Theoretical traditions in social values for sustainability” - Christopher M. Raymond; Jasper Kenter; Dave Kendal; Carena J. van Riper; Andrea Rawluk (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Integrated climate assessment: risks, uncertainties, and society - Seita Emori; Kiyoshi Takahashi (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Towards the incorporation of tipping elements in global climate risk management: probability and potential impacts of passing a threshold - Yoshihiko Iseri; Sayaka Yoshikawa; Masashi Kiguchi; Ryunosuke Tawatari; Shinjiro Kanae; Taikan Oki (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Risk implications of long-term global climate goals: overall conclusions of the ICA-RUS project - Seita Emori; Kiyoshi Takahashi; Yoshiki Yamagata; Shinjiro Kanae; Shunsuke Mori; Yuko Fujigaki (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Interactions between scientific and social rationality: recommendation of intermediate layer for transdisciplinary sustainable science - Yuko Fujigaki (Sustainability Science, 2018)

The value of knowledge accumulation on climate sensitivity uncertainty: comparison between perfect information, single stage and act then learn decisions - Shunsuke Mori; Hideo Shiogama (Sustainability Science, 2018)

How do climate-related uncertainties influence 2 and 1.5 °C pathways? - Xuanming Su; Hideo Shiogama; Katsumasa Tanaka; Shinichiro Fujimori; Tomoko Hasegawa; Yasuaki Hijioka; Kiyoshi Takahashi; Jingyu Liu (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Estimating water–food–ecosystem trade-offs for the global negative emission scenario (IPCC-RCP2.6) - Yoshiki Yamagata; Naota Hanasaki; Akihiko Ito; Tsuguki Kinoshita; Daisuke Murakami; Qian Zhou (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Assessment of mitigation strategies as tools for risk management under future uncertainties: a multi-model approach - Shunsuke Mori; Toyoaki Washida; Atsushi Kurosawa; Toshihiko Masui (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Happiness as a sustainability factor. The world happiness index: a posetic-based data analysis - Lars Carlsen (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Towards systemic and contextual priority setting for implementing the 2030 Agenda - Nina Weitz; Henrik Carlsen; Måns Nilsson; Kristian Skånberg (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Taking gender seriously in climate change adaptation and sustainability science research: views from feminist debates and sub-Saharan small-scale agriculture - Anne Jerneck (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Inter-sectoral action to support healthy and environmentally sustainable food behaviours: a study of sectoral knowledge, governance and implementation opportunities - Sarah W. James; Sharon Friel; Mark A. Lawrence; Annet C. Hoek; David Pearson (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Global leadership for social design: theoretical and educational perspectives - Roland W. Scholz; Masaru Yarime; Hideaki Shiroyama (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Action research workshop for transdisciplinary sustainability science - G. Tejedor; J. Segalas (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Tourism and transitions toward sustainability: developing tourists’ pro-sustainability agency - Aisling Force; David Manuel-Navarrete; Karina Benessaiah (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Towards energy sovereignty: biomass as sustainability in interior Alaska - Joseph P. Brewer II; Shaylee Vandever; Jay T. Johnson (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Circles, spirals, pyramids and cubes: why the circular economy cannot work - Keith Ronald Skene (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Mutual learning between researchers and farmers during implementation of scientific principles for sustainable development: the case of biodiversity-based agriculture - Laurent Hazard; Patrick Steyaert; Guillaume Martin; Nathalie Couix; Marie-Laure Navas; Michel Duru; Anne Lauvie; Julie Labatut (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Vulnerability of the livestock industry in eastern Australia - N. A. Marshall; B. M. Taylor; S. Heyenga; D. Butler (Sustainability Science, 2018)

The triple bottom line: bringing a sustainability framework to prioritize climate change investments for infrastructure planning - Amy Schweikert; Xavier Espinet; Paul Chinowsky (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Cost–benefit analysis of mangrove ecosystems in flood risk reduction: a case study of the Tana Delta, Kenya - Joseph Muiruri Karanja; Osamu Saito (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Cultural group selection and the design of REDD+: insights from Pemba - J. Andrews; M. Borgerhoff Mulder (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Applying cultural evolution to sustainability challenges: an introduction to the special issue - Jeremy S. Brooks; Timothy M. Waring; Monique Borgerhoff Mulder; Peter J. Richerson (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Cultural evolution in adaptive management of grassroots activism in BC, Canada - Karl Frost (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Applying a cultural multilevel selection framework to the adoption of sustainable management practices in California viticulture - Vicken Hillis; Adrian Bell; Jodi Brandt; Jeremy S. Brooks (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Evolving the Anthropocene: linking multi-level selection with long-term social–ecological change - Erle C. Ellis; Nicholas R. Magliocca; Chris J. Stevens; Dorian Q. Fuller (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Designing cultural multilevel selection research for sustainability science - Michelle A. Kline; Timothy M. Waring; Jonathan Salerno (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Evidence of cultural group selection in territorial lobstering in Maine - Timothy Waring; James Acheson (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Cultural evolution and US agricultural institutions: a historical case study of Maine’s blueberry industry - Samuel P. Hanes; Timothy M. Waring (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Promising degrees of stakeholder interaction in research for sustainable development - Flurina Schneider; Tobias Buser (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Cultural multilevel selection suggests neither large or small cooperative agreements are likely to solve climate change without changing the game - Matthew R. Zefferman (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Cultural multi-level selection and biological market theory explain the coupled dynamics of labor exchange cooperation and social support - Shane J. Macfarlan; Mark Remiker (Sustainability Science, 2018)

An integrated framework for resilience research: a systematic review based on citation network analysis - Li Xu; Yuya Kajikawa (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Re-examining balinese subaks through the lens of cultural multilevel selection - Jeremy Brooks; Victoria Reyes-García; William Burnside (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Fostering biocultural diversity in landscapes through place-based food networks: a “solution scan” of European and Japanese models - Tobias Plieninger; Ryo Kohsaka; Claudia Bieling; Shizuka Hashimoto; Chiho Kamiyama; Thanasis Kizos; Marianne Penker; Pia Kieninger; Brian J. Shaw; Giles Bruno Sioen; Yuki Yoshida; Osamu Saito (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Developing sustainable water and land management options: reflections on a transdisciplinary research process - Carsten Mann; Martina Schäfer (Sustainability Science, 2018)

The undisciplinary journey: early-career perspectives in sustainability science - L. Jamila Haider; Jonas Hentati-Sundberg; Matteo Giusti; Julie Goodness; Maike Hamann; Vanessa A. Masterson; Megan Meacham; Andrew Merrie; Daniel Ospina; Caroline Schill; Hanna Sinare (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Conceptualizing the transfer of knowledge across cases in transdisciplinary research - Carolina Adler; Gertrude Hirsch Hadorn; Thomas Breu; Urs Wiesmann; Christian Pohl (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Dimensions of professional competences for interventions towards sustainability - Francisca Perez Salgado; Dina Abbott; Gordon Wilson (Sustainability Science, 2018)

Co-innovation to increase community resilience: influencing irrigation efficiency in the Waimakariri Irrigation Scheme - Simon J. Fielke; M. S. Srinivasan (Sustainability Science, 2018)