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. Full Text: Subscribers to Science Online may access the full text of this article after logging in; non-subscribers can access the full text free of charge, but only by following the link provided in the Documents section of the
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Keywords:sustainability science, Friibergh Workshop, sustainable development, digital divide, environment and development, nature-society interactions |