Sustainability Science

Article	Citations
Key competencies in sustainability in higher education—toward an agreed-upon reference framework	240
Mapping citizen science contributions to the UN sustainable development goals	188
The Sustainable Development Goals prioritize economic growth over sustainable resource use: a critical reflection on the SDGs from a socio-ecological perspective	158
Environmental justice and the SDGs: from synergies to gaps and contradictions	151
The contribution of small-scale food production in urban areas to the sustainable development goals: a review and case study	118
Towards understanding interactions between Sustainable Development Goals: the role of environment–human linkages	113
Inner transformation to sustainability as a deep leverage point: fostering new avenues for change through dialogue and reflection	82
Current practice of assessing students’ sustainability competencies: a review of tools	81
Transdisciplinary sustainability research in real-world labs: success factors and methods for change	75
Loss and Damage and limits to adaptation: recent IPCC insights and implications for climate science and policy	71
The costs and benefits of environmental sustainability	65
Creating a space for place and multidimensional well-being: lessons learned from localizing the SDGs	63
Three decades of research on climate change and peace: a bibliometrics analysis	59
Analysing interactions among the sustainable development goals: findings and emerging issues from local and global studies	52
Leverage points for sustainability transformations: nine guiding questions for sustainability science and practice	50
Agroforestry for sustainable landscape management	48
Environmental sustainable value in agriculture revisited: How does Common Agricultural Policy contribute to eco-efficiency?	45
A systems model of SDG target influence on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development	45
COVID-19: the impact of a global crisis on sustainable development research	44
Carbon neutrality commitment for China: from vision to action	39
Drivers of sustainability transformations: leverage points, contexts and conjunctures	38
Transdisciplinarity: science for and with society in light of the university’s roles and functions	38
The ‘end of the world’ vs. the ‘end of the month’: understanding social resistance to sustainability transition agendas, a lesson from the Yellow Vests in France	37
Transformation for sustainability: a deep leverage points approach	36
Conflicting roles of researchers in sustainability transitions: balancing action and reflection	36

Philosophy of science for sustainability science	35
Homegarden commercialization: extent, household characteristics, and effect on food security and food sovereignty in Rural Indonesia	34
SDGs mainstreaming at the local level: case studies from Japan	33
Urban–rural linkages: effective solutions for achieving sustainable development in Ghana from an SDG interlinkage perspective	33
Scale-related governance challenges in the water–energy–food nexus: toward a diagnostic approach	33
Co-creating local socioeconomic pathways for achieving the sustainable development goals	33
Agroforestry governance for operationalising the landscape approach: connecting conservation and farming actors	33
A path forward for qualitative research on sustainability in the COVID-19 pandemic	32
Problematic blue growth: a thematic synthesis of social sustainability problems related to growth in the marine and coastal tourism	32
An actionable understanding of societal transitions: the X-curve framework	31
Social capital and community disaster resilience: post-earthquake tourism recovery on Gili Trawangan, Indonesia	31
University teaching staff and sustainable development: an assessment of competences	30
Decolonising knowledge co-production: examining the role of positionality and partnerships to support Indigenous-led bush product enterprises in northern Australia	30
Cognition and behavior in context: a framework and theories to explain natural resource use decisions in social-ecological systems	30
Learning from knowledge co-production research and practice in the twenty-first century: global lessons and what they mean for collaborative research in Nunatsiavut	30
Getting to the heart of transformation	30
Exploring land-use histories of tree-crop landscapes: a cross-site comparison in the Mediterranean Basin	29
EMF 35 JMIP study for Japan’s long-term climate and energy policy: scenario designs and key findings	29
Combining participatory games and backcasting to support collective scenario evaluation: an action research approach for sustainable agroforestry landscape management	28
A review of scientific advancements in datasets derived from big data for monitoring the Sustainable Development Goals	28
The evolution of the blue-green revolution of rice-fish cultivation for sustainable food production	28
Where to begin? Defining national strategies for implementing the 2030 Agenda: the case of Switzerland	27
Impact assessment of citizen science: state of the art and guiding principles for a consolidated approach	27
Creating leadership collectives for sustainability transformations	27
Analysing trade-offs and synergies between SDGs for urban development, food security and poverty alleviation in rapidly changing peri-urban areas: a tool to support inclusive urban planning	27
Merging the arts and sciences for collaborative sustainability action: a methodological framework	27
Beyond “blah blah blah”: exploring the “how” of transformation	26
Alternatives to sustainable development: what can we learn from the pluriverse in practice?	26
Labelling in Mediterranean agroforestry landscapes: a Delphi study on relevant sustainability indicators	25
The patterns of curriculum change processes that embed sustainability in higher education institutions	25
The inclusive wealth index and sustainable development goals	24
Talkin’ bout a revolution: an expert interview study exploring barriers and keys to engender change towards societal sufficiency orientation	24
Transition within a transition: how cooperative platforms want to change the sharing economy	24
Lifestyle carbon footprints and changes in lifestyles to limit global warming to 1.5 °C, and ways forward for related research	24
Decolonizing transformations through ‘right relations’	24
Role of negative emissions technologies (NETs) and innovative technologies in transition of Japan’s energy systems toward net-zero CO2 emissions	24
Two degrees and the SDGs: a network analysis of the interlinkages between transnational climate actions and the Sustainable Development Goals	23
A global analysis of the drivers of human pressure within protected areas at the national level	23
The transformation of provisioning systems from an integrated perspective of social metabolism and political economy: a conceptual framework	23
Alternative futures for global biological invasions	22
South American Camelids: their values and contributions to people	22
Regenerating soil, regenerating soul: an integral approach to understanding agricultural transformation	22
A computable general equilibrium analysis of environmental tax reform in Japan with a forward-looking dynamic model	22
Grounding global environmental assessments through bottom-up futures based on local practices and perspectives	22
Discursive dynamics and lock-ins in socio-technical systems: an overview and a way forward	21
Realising potentials for arts-based sustainability science	21
Towards coherence on sustainability in education: a systematic review of Whole Institution Approaches	20
Challenges and innovations for improving the sustainability of European agroforestry systems of high nature and cultural value: stakeholder perspectives	20
Capital, rules or conflict? Factors affecting livelihood-strategies, infrastructure-resilience, and livelihood-vulnerability in the polders of Bangladesh	19
How do we effectively communicate air pollution to change public attitudes and behaviours? A review	19

A longitudinal study of sustainability attitudes, intentions, and behaviors	19
Looking inward, outward, and forward: Exploring the process of transformative learning in teacher education for a sustainable future	19
Modelling land system evolution and dynamics of terrestrial carbon stocks in the Luanhe River Basin, China: a scenario analysis of trade-offs and synergies between sustainable development goals	18
Application of technology assessments to co-learning for regional transformation: a case study of biomass energy systems in Tanegashima	18
Understanding human–nature connections through value networks: the case of ancient wood-pastures of Central Romania	18
Using citizen science data to monitor the Sustainable Development Goals: a bottom-up analysis	18
The coronavirus pandemic as an analogy for future sustainability challenges	18
Implementing the urban food–water–energy nexus through urban laboratories: a systematic literature review	18
A feminist ethos for caring knowledge production in transdisciplinary sustainability science	18
Mass-participant sport events and sustainable development: gender, social bonding, and connectedness to nature as predictors of socially and environmentally responsible behavior intentions	18
Linking multiple values of nature with future impacts: value-based participatory scenario development for sustainable landscape governance	18
Preparing interdisciplinary leadership for a sustainable future	18
Impact of clean cooking fuel adoption on women’s welfare in India: the mediating role of women’s autonomy	17
An integrative framework for transformative social change: a case in global wildlife trade	17
Human–nature connectedness and other relational values are negatively affected by landscape simplification: insights from Lower Saxony, Germany	17
Spatial characterization of non-material values across multiple coastal production landscapes in the Indian Sundarban delta	17
Decision-making for nature’s contributions to people in the Cape Floristic Region: the role of values, rules and knowledge	17
Making the COVID-19 crisis a real opportunity for environmental sustainability	17
Ignored and invisible: internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the face of COVID-19 pandemic	17
Sustainable lifestyles: towards a relational approach	16
Effects of experiencing the role of imaginary future generations in decision-making: a case study of participatory deliberation in a Japanese town	16
Envisioning just transformations in and beyond the EU bioeconomy: inspirations from decolonial environmental justice and degrowth	16
A natural language processing model for supporting sustainable development goals: translating semantics, visualizing nexus, and connecting stakeholders	16
Climate risks and foreign direct investment in developing countries: the role of national governance	16
The Life Framework of Values and living as nature; towards a full recognition of holistic and relational ontologies	16
The role of renewables in the Japanese power sector: implications from the EMF35 JMIP	16
Volunteer beach cleanups: civic environmental stewardship combating global plastic pollution	16
Participatory multi-modelling as the creation of a boundary object ecology: the case of future energy infrastructures in the Rotterdam Port Industrial Cluster	15
The genetic and cultural evolution of unsustainability	15
Industrial decarbonization under Japan’s national mitigation scenarios: a multi-model analysis	15
Learning as a key leverage point for sustainability transformations: a case study of a local government in Perth, Western Australia	15
A systems approach to the sustainability–peace nexus	15
Breaking monologues in collaborative research: bridging knowledge systems through a listening-based dialogue of wisdom approach	15
Four propositions on integrated sustainability: toward a theoretical framework to understand the environment, peace, and sustainability nexus	15
Towards climate resilient peace: an intersectional and degrowth approach	15
Evaluating transdisciplinary research practices: insights from social network analysis	15
Large-scale integration of offshore wind into the Japanese power grid	15
Systems entrepreneurship: a conceptual substantiation of a novel entrepreneurial “species”	15
The role of universities in SDGs solution co-creation and implementation: a human-centered design and shared-action learning process	15
The role of indigenous knowledge and local knowledge in water sector adaptation to climate change in Africa: a structured assessment	14
Circular agri-food economies: business models and practices in the potato industry	14
Social dynamics of community resilience building in the face of climate change: the case of three Scottish communities	14
Crisis, transformation, and agency: Why are people going back-to-the-land in Greece?	14
Reforming China’s fertilizer policies: implications for nitrogen pollution reduction and food security	14
Are we ignoring a black elephant in the Anthropocene? Climate change and global pandemic as the crisis in health and equality	14
Teaching the “how” of transformation	14
Projecting population distribution under depopulation conditions in Japan: scenario analysis for future socio-ecological systems	14
A leverage points perspective on social networks to understand sustainability transformations: evidence from Southern Transylvania	14
Unraveling the politics of ‘doing inclusion’ in transdisciplinarity for sustainable transformation	14
How do we know where there is potential to intervene and leverage impact in a changing system? The practitioners perspective	14
Creative, embodied practices, and the potentialities for sustainability transformations	14
Using integrated landscape management to scale agroforestry: examples from Ecuador	14
Demand-side decarbonization and electrification: EMF 35 JMIP study	14
Market power and food loss at the producer-retailer interface of fruit and vegetable supply chains in Germany	14
Evolution of water quality and biota in the Panjiakou Reservoir, China as a consequence of social and economic development: implications for synergies and trade-offs between Sustainable Development Go	14
Grasping at digitalisation: turning imagination into fact in the sugarcane farming community	14
Learning Together for and with the Martuwarra Fitzroy River	14
Sociological modeling of smart city with the implementation of UN sustainable development goals	14
Livelihood resilience in the face of multiple stressors: biocultural resource-based adaptive strategies among the vulnerable communities	13
Storylines for practice: a visual storytelling approach to strengthen the science-practice interface	13
Goal frames and sustainability transitions: how cognitive lock-ins can impede crop diversification	13
Non-material nature’s contributions to people from a marine protected area support multiple dimensions of human well-being	13
Climate change in rural Pakistan: evidence and experiences from a people-centered perspective	13
Co-creating narratives for WEF nexus governance: a Quantitative Story-Telling case study in the Canary Islands	13
Stranded investment associated with rapid energy system changes under the mid-century strategy in Japan	13
What matters? The role of values in transformations toward sustainability: a case study of coffee production in Burundi	13
Science in Indigenous homelands: addressing power and justice in sustainability science from/with/in the Penobscot River	12
Expansion of soybean farming into deforested areas in the amazon biome: the role and impact of the soy moratorium	12
The sustainability–peace nexus in crisis contexts: how the Rohingya escaped the ethnic violence in Myanmar, but are trapped into environmental challenges in Bangladesh	12
The effect of financial crises on deforestation: a global and regional panel data analysis	12
Networks of action situations: a systematic review of empirical research	12
Causes and consequences of reduced human intervention in formerly managed forests in Japan and other countries	12
Living labs in the context of the UN sustainable development goals: state of the art	12
Business models for the Anthropocene: accelerating sustainability transformations in the private sector	12
Organic agriculture in a low-emission world: exploring combined measures to deliver a sustainable food system in Sweden	12
Barriers to institutional social sustainability	12
Endangering the integrity of science by misusing unvalidated models and untested assumptions as facts: General considerations and the mineral and phosphorus scarcity fallacy	12
Buen vivir as a territorial practice. Building a more just and sustainable life through interculturality	12
The bioeconomy and its untenable growth promises: reality checks from research	12
On which common ground to build? Transferable knowledge across cases in transdisciplinary sustainability research	12

Evolution of traditional agroforestry landscapes and development of invasive species: lessons from the Pyrenees (France)	11
A scenario- and spatial-downscaling-based land-use modeling framework to improve the projections of plausible futures: a case study of the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area, China	11
Adaptive governance in a complex social-ecological context: emergent responses to a native forest insect outbreak	11
Jin-jiyan-azadi. Matristic culture and Democratic Confederalism in Rojava	11
Scanning the solutions for the sustainable supply of forest ecosystem services in Europe	11
Discursive entrepreneurship: ethical meaning-making as a transformative practice for sustainable futures	11
Impact of Malaysian palm oil on sustainable development goals: co-benefits and trade-offs across mitigation strategies	11
How can diverse national food and land-use priorities be reconciled with global sustainability targets? Lessons from the FABLE initiative	11
The land–river interface: a conceptual framework of environmental process interactions to support sustainable development	11
How do past global experiences of coal phase-out inform China’s domestic approach to a just transition?	11
Re-thinking research impact: voice, context and power at the interface of science, policy and practice	11
On the discovery and enactment of positive socio-ecological tipping points: insights from energy systems interventions in Bangladesh and Indonesia	11
The development of climate security discourse in Japan	11
Urban gardening as a means for fostering embodied urban human–food connection? A case study on urban vegetable gardens in Germany	11
A framework for assessing coupling and de-coupling trajectories in river social-ecological systems	11
Operationalizing the Nature Futures Framework to catalyze the development of nature-future scenarios	11
Global tourism, climate change and energy sustainability: assessing carbon reduction mitigating measures from the aviation industry	11
Transformative change in context—stakeholders’ understandings of leverage at the forest–climate nexus	11
Building up an ecologically sustainable and socially desirable post-COVID-19 future	10
A leverage points perspective on institutions for food security in a smallholder-dominated landscape in southwestern Ethiopia	10
Co-producing theory of change to operationalize integrated landscape approaches	10
In search of the good dam: contemporary views on dam planning in Latin America	10
Using knowledge to care for country: Indigenous-led evaluations of research to adaptively co-manage Kakadu National Park, Australia	10
Using a combination of Q-methodology and survey-based approach for assessing forest ecosystem services of Five Finger Mountains in Northern Cyprus	10
Considering equity in wildfire protection	10
Deepening our understanding of which policy advice to expect from prioritizing SDG targets: introducing the Analytic Network Process in a multi-method setting	10
System LCOE of variable renewable energies: a case study of Japan’s decarbonized power sector in 2050	10
True cost accounting in agri-food networks: a German case study on informational campaigning and responsible implementation	10
Collective and individual interdisciplinarity in a sustainability research group: A social network analysis	10
Transforming sustainability science for practice: a social–ecological systems framework for training sustainability professionals	10
The three logics of sustainability-oriented hybrid organisations: a multi-disciplinary review	10
Large-scale flood risk assessment under different development strategies: the Luanhe River Basin in China	10
Grassroots innovation for the pluriverse: evidence from Zapatismo and autonomous Zapatista education	10
Exploring mechanisms for systemic thinking in decision-making through three country applications of SDG Synergies	10
Enhancing synergies in nature’s contributions to people in socio-ecological production landscapes and seascapes: lessons learnt from ten site-based projects in biodiversity hotspots	10
Analyzing the effects of institutional capacity on sustainable water governance	10
Elaborating a people-centered approach to understanding sustainable livelihoods under climate and environmental change: Thang Binh District, Quang Nam Province, Vietnam	10
Transdisciplinary partnerships for sustainability: an evaluation guide	10
Disruptive seeds: a scenario approach to explore power shifts in sustainability transformations	10
Setting ‘poverty thresholds’: whose experience counts?	10
Invisible (bio)economies: a framework to assess the ‘blind spots’ of dominant bioeconomy models	9
The sustainability–peace nexus: why is it important?	9
Humanitarian engineering at the sustainability-development nexus: mapping vulnerability and capability factors for communities at risk of water-based disasters	9
Flexible institutionalisation in Auroville: a prefigurative alternative to development	9
Managing biodiversity in the Anthropocene: discussing the Nature Futures Framework as a tool for adaptive decision-making for nature under climate change	9
Central–local governance gaps: the evolving differentiation of climate policies in China	9
Finding shared meaning in the Anthropocene: engaging diverse perspectives on climate change	9
Does building development in Dhaka comply with land use zoning? An analysis using nighttime light and digital building heights	9
Exploring the social coherence of rural landscapes featuring agroforestry intercropping systems using locals’ visual assessments and perceptions	9
How does government expenditure impact sustainable development? Studying the multidimensional link between budgets and development gaps	9
Synergies and trade-offs between sustainable development goals and targets: innovative approaches and new perspectives	9
Participatory multi-stakeholder assessment of alternative development scenarios in contested landscapes	9
System-level consequences of synergies and trade-offs between SDGs: quantitative analysis of interlinkage networks at country level	9
Sustainable transitions towards a resilient and decentralised future: Japan’s Circulating and Ecological Sphere (CES)	9
How public catering accelerates sustainability: a German case study	8
Does scientific interest in the nature impacts of food align with consumer information-seeking behavior?	8
Effectiveness of a game-based class for interdisciplinary energy systems education in engineering courses	8
Ranking the sustainable development goals: perceived sustainability priorities in small island states	8
The missing intangibles: nature’s contributions to human wellbeing through place attachment and social capital	8
A framework to harness effective partnerships for the sustainable development goals	8
Degrowth and agri-food systems: a research agenda for the critical social sciences	8
Agricultural trade and its impacts on cropland use and the global loss of species habitat	8
How the COVID-19 pandemic impacts social scientific research on sustainability: questions of methodology, ethics and justice: comment on Santana et al. 2021	8
Sustainable pathways towards climate and biodiversity goals in the UK: the importance of managing land-use synergies and trade-offs	8
Transforming environmental governance: critical action intellectuals and their praxis in the field	8
From hegemony-reinforcing to hegemony-transcending transformations: horizons of possibility and strategies of escape	8
A comparison of smart city research and practice in Sweden and Japan: trends and opportunities identified from a literature review and co-occurrence network analysis	8
A multi-scale integrated assessment model to support urban sustainability	8
Reflections on the popularity of the circular bioeconomy concept: the ontological crisis of sustainability science	8
Transformation archetypes in global food systems	8
Stakeholder perceptions about the drivers, impacts and barriers of certification in the Ghanaian cocoa and oil palm sectors	8
The more things change, the more they stay the same: promises of bioeconomy and the economy of promises	8
Key capabilities for frugal innovation in developed economies: insights into the current transition towards sustainability	7
The many faces of Post-Development: alternatives to development in Tanzania, Iran and Haiti	7
Operationalising place for land system science	7
Attitudes of administrative decision-makers towards nature-based solutions for flood risk management in Germany	7
Understanding the bioeconomy through its instruments: standardizing sustainability, neoliberalizing bioeconomies?	7
Ambitious subsidy reform by the WTO presents opportunities for ocean health restoration	7
Commoning the governance: a review of literature and the integration of power	7
An ecosystem service approach to the study of vineyard landscapes in the context of climate change: a review	7
Pluriversality and beyond: consolidating radical alternatives to (mal-)development as a Commonist project	7
Environmental principles for modern sustainable economic frameworks including the circular economy	7
Epistemic stability and epistemic adaptability: interdisciplinary knowledge integration competencies for complex sustainability issues	7
A system leverage points approach to governance for sustainable development	7
Simulating alternative sustainable water futures	7
Sustainability impacts of ecosystem approaches to small-scale aquaculture in Bangladesh	7
Fight and build: solidarity economy as ontological politics	7
Terra incognita: the contribution of disaster risk reduction in unpacking the sustainability–peace nexus	7
Ecosystem services and disservices in the Luanhe River Basin in China under past, current and future land uses: implications for the sustainable development goals	7
Region-income-based prioritisation of Sustainable Development Goals by Gradient Boosting Machine	7
Challenges for environmental governance: policy issue interdependencies might not lead to collaboration	7
How ecovillages work: more-than-human understandings of rentabilidad in Mexican ecovillages	7
Developing methods of knowledge co-production across varying contexts to shape Sustainability Science theory and practice	7
The role of a nature-based program in fostering multiple connections to nature	7
Enablers and challenges when engaging local communities for urban biodiversity conservation in Australian cities	7