Sustainability Science

Article	Citations
Transdisciplinary sustainability research in real-world labs: success factors and methods for change	114
Inner transformation to sustainability as a deep leverage point: fostering new avenues for change through dialogue and reflection	108
The costs and benefits of environmental sustainability	104
Leverage points for sustainability transformations: nine guiding questions for sustainability science and practice	69
A systems model of SDG target influence on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development	62
Transformation for sustainability: a deep leverage points approach	58
Carbon neutrality commitment for China: from vision to action	55
An actionable understanding of societal transitions: the X-curve framework	53
Urban–rural linkages: effective solutions for achieving sustainable development in Ghana from an SDG interlinkage perspective	50
Drivers of sustainability transformations: leverage points, contexts and conjunctures	49
COVID-19: the impact of a global crisis on sustainable development research	49
Conflicting roles of researchers in sustainability transitions: balancing action and reflection	46
Towards coherence on sustainability in education: a systematic review of Whole Institution Approaches	45
Scale-related governance challenges in the water–energy–food nexus: toward a diagnostic approach	44
Beyond “blah blah blah”: exploring the “how” of transformation	44
The evolution of the blue-green revolution of rice-fish cultivation for sustainable food production	44
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	44
Getting to the heart of transformation	43
Impact assessment of citizen science: state of the art and guiding principles for a consolidated approach	42
SDGs mainstreaming at the local level: case studies from Japan	41
Cognition and behavior in context: a framework and theories to explain natural resource use decisions in social-ecological systems	40
Learning from knowledge co-production research and practice in the twenty-first century: global lessons and what they mean for collaborative research in Nunatsiavut	39
Alternatives to sustainable development: what can we learn from the pluriverse in practice?	39
Co-creating local socioeconomic pathways for achieving the sustainable development goals	38
The patterns of curriculum change processes that embed sustainability in higher education institutions	37

Reforming China’s fertilizer policies: implications for nitrogen pollution reduction and food security	36
A path forward for qualitative research on sustainability in the COVID-19 pandemic	36
Decolonising knowledge co-production: examining the role of positionality and partnerships to support Indigenous-led bush product enterprises in northern Australia	36
A review of scientific advancements in datasets derived from big data for monitoring the Sustainable Development Goals	35
Lifestyle carbon footprints and changes in lifestyles to limit global warming to 1.5 °C, and ways forward for related research	35
Decolonizing transformations through ‘right relations’	34
EMF 35 JMIP study for Japan’s long-term climate and energy policy: scenario designs and key findings	34
Realising potentials for arts-based sustainability science	33
Two degrees and the SDGs: a network analysis of the interlinkages between transnational climate actions and the Sustainable Development Goals	31
Linking multiple values of nature with future impacts: value-based participatory scenario development for sustainable landscape governance	30
How do we effectively communicate air pollution to change public attitudes and behaviours? A review	29
Creating leadership collectives for sustainability transformations	29
Regenerating soil, regenerating soul: an integral approach to understanding agricultural transformation	28
The inclusive wealth index and sustainable development goals	28
Talkin’ bout a revolution: an expert interview study exploring barriers and keys to engender change towards societal sufficiency orientation	28
Discursive dynamics and lock-ins in socio-technical systems: an overview and a way forward	28
The transformation of provisioning systems from an integrated perspective of social metabolism and political economy: a conceptual framework	28
A longitudinal study of sustainability attitudes, intentions, and behaviors	27
Role of negative emissions technologies (NETs) and innovative technologies in transition of Japan’s energy systems toward net-zero CO2 emissions	27
Alternative futures for global biological invasions	27
Human–nature connectedness and other relational values are negatively affected by landscape simplification: insights from Lower Saxony, Germany	26
Grounding global environmental assessments through bottom-up futures based on local practices and perspectives	26
Re-thinking research impact: voice, context and power at the interface of science, policy and practice	26
A feminist ethos for caring knowledge production in transdisciplinary sustainability science	25
Sustainable lifestyles: towards a relational approach	25
A computable general equilibrium analysis of environmental tax reform in Japan with a forward-looking dynamic model	25
Climate risks and foreign direct investment in developing countries: the role of national governance	25
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	25
Unraveling the politics of ‘doing inclusion’ in transdisciplinarity for sustainable transformation	25
Global tourism, climate change and energy sustainability: assessing carbon reduction mitigating measures from the aviation industry	24
Climate change in rural Pakistan: evidence and experiences from a people-centered perspective	24
The Life Framework of Values and living as nature; towards a full recognition of holistic and relational ontologies	24
On the discovery and enactment of positive socio-ecological tipping points: insights from energy systems interventions in Bangladesh and Indonesia	24
A natural language processing model for supporting sustainable development goals: translating semantics, visualizing nexus, and connecting stakeholders	24
Envisioning just transformations in and beyond the EU bioeconomy: inspirations from decolonial environmental justice and degrowth	24
An integrative framework for transformative social change: a case in global wildlife trade	24
Implementing the urban food–water–energy nexus through urban laboratories: a systematic literature review	23
Decision-making for nature’s contributions to people in the Cape Floristic Region: the role of values, rules and knowledge	23
Sociological modeling of smart city with the implementation of UN sustainable development goals	23
Effects of experiencing the role of imaginary future generations in decision-making: a case study of participatory deliberation in a Japanese town	22
Large-scale integration of offshore wind into the Japanese power grid	22
The role of universities in SDGs solution co-creation and implementation: a human-centered design and shared-action learning process	22
Using citizen science data to monitor the Sustainable Development Goals: a bottom-up analysis	21
Degrowth and agri-food systems: a research agenda for the critical social sciences	21
Impact of clean cooking fuel adoption on women’s welfare in India: the mediating role of women’s autonomy	21
The role of indigenous knowledge and local knowledge in water sector adaptation to climate change in Africa: a structured assessment	21
Creative, embodied practices, and the potentialities for sustainability transformations	21
Breaking monologues in collaborative research: bridging knowledge systems through a listening-based dialogue of wisdom approach	20
Evaluating transdisciplinary research practices: insights from social network analysis	20
The sustainability–peace nexus in crisis contexts: how the Rohingya escaped the ethnic violence in Myanmar, but are trapped into environmental challenges in Bangladesh	19

Impact of Malaysian palm oil on sustainable development goals: co-benefits and trade-offs across mitigation strategies	19
Market power and food loss at the producer-retailer interface of fruit and vegetable supply chains in Germany	19
A framework to harness effective partnerships for the sustainable development goals	19
Four propositions on integrated sustainability: toward a theoretical framework to understand the environment, peace, and sustainability nexus	19
Spatial characterization of non-material values across multiple coastal production landscapes in the Indian Sundarban delta	19
The bioeconomy and its untenable growth promises: reality checks from research	19
Teaching the “how” of transformation	18
Circular agri-food economies: business models and practices in the potato industry	18
Discursive entrepreneurship: ethical meaning-making as a transformative practice for sustainable futures	18
Agricultural trade and its impacts on cropland use and the global loss of species habitat	18
Goal frames and sustainability transitions: how cognitive lock-ins can impede crop diversification	18
Commoning the governance: a review of literature and the integration of power	18
Industrial decarbonization under Japan’s national mitigation scenarios: a multi-model analysis	18
Buen vivir as a territorial practice. Building a more just and sustainable life through interculturality	18
The more things change, the more they stay the same: promises of bioeconomy and the economy of promises	18
Making the COVID-19 crisis a real opportunity for environmental sustainability	17
The role of renewables in the Japanese power sector: implications from the EMF35 JMIP	17
Barriers to institutional social sustainability	17
Social dynamics of community resilience building in the face of climate change: the case of three Scottish communities	17
Networks of action situations: a systematic review of empirical research	17
A leverage points perspective on social networks to understand sustainability transformations: evidence from Southern Transylvania	17
Disruptive seeds: a scenario approach to explore power shifts in sustainability transformations	17
Towards climate resilient peace: an intersectional and degrowth approach	17
True cost accounting in agri-food networks: a German case study on informational campaigning and responsible implementation	16
A systems approach to the sustainability–peace nexus	16
Synergies and trade-offs between sustainable development goals and targets: innovative approaches and new perspectives	16
Regenerative agriculture: a potentially transformative storyline shared by nine discourses	16
How do we know where there is potential to intervene and leverage impact in a changing system? The practitioners perspective	16
Co-creating narratives for WEF nexus governance: a Quantitative Story-Telling case study in the Canary Islands	16
Grasping at digitalisation: turning imagination into fact in the sugarcane farming community	16
Promoting net-zero economy through climate-smart agriculture: transition towards sustainability	15
Co-producing theory of change to operationalize integrated landscape approaches	15
Endangering the integrity of science by misusing unvalidated models and untested assumptions as facts: General considerations and the mineral and phosphorus scarcity fallacy	15
Living labs in the context of the UN sustainable development goals: state of the art	15
Deepening our understanding of which policy advice to expect from prioritizing SDG targets: introducing the Analytic Network Process in a multi-method setting	15
Urban gardening as a means for fostering embodied urban human–food connection? A case study on urban vegetable gardens in Germany	15
Science in Indigenous homelands: addressing power and justice in sustainability science from/with/in the Penobscot River	15
How does government expenditure impact sustainable development? Studying the multidimensional link between budgets and development gaps	15
Grassroots innovation for the pluriverse: evidence from Zapatismo and autonomous Zapatista education	15
Large-scale flood risk assessment under different development strategies: the Luanhe River Basin in China	15
Development towards low carbon and sustainable agriculture in Finland is possible with moderate changes in land use and diets	15
Flexible institutionalisation in Auroville: a prefigurative alternative to development	15
Demand-side decarbonization and electrification: EMF 35 JMIP study	15
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	15
Non-material nature’s contributions to people from a marine protected area support multiple dimensions of human well-being	15
Crisis, transformation, and agency: Why are people going back-to-the-land in Greece?	15
Are we ignoring a black elephant in the Anthropocene? Climate change and global pandemic as the crisis in health and equality	15
The three logics of sustainability-oriented hybrid organisations: a multi-disciplinary review	14
Learning Together for and with the Martuwarra Fitzroy River	14
Organic agriculture in a low-emission world: exploring combined measures to deliver a sustainable food system in Sweden	14
How do past global experiences of coal phase-out inform China’s domestic approach to a just transition?	14
Considering equity in wildfire protection	14
System-level consequences of synergies and trade-offs between SDGs: quantitative analysis of interlinkage networks at country level	14
Perceived impacts of the Fridays for Future climate movement on environmental concern and behaviour in Switzerland	14
Scanning the solutions for the sustainable supply of forest ecosystem services in Europe	14
Finding shared meaning in the Anthropocene: engaging diverse perspectives on climate change	14
What matters? The role of values in transformations toward sustainability: a case study of coffee production in Burundi	14
Livelihood resilience in the face of multiple stressors: biocultural resource-based adaptive strategies among the vulnerable communities	13
Transformative change in context—stakeholders’ understandings of leverage at the forest–climate nexus	13
Ecological ceiling and social floor: public support for eco-social policies in Sweden	13
Region-income-based prioritisation of Sustainable Development Goals by Gradient Boosting Machine	13
Sustainability of urban expansion in Africa: a systematic literature review using the Drivers–Pressures–State–Impact–Responses (DPSIR) framework	13
Operationalizing the Nature Futures Framework to catalyze the development of nature-future scenarios	13
Transdisciplinary partnerships for sustainability: an evaluation guide	13
Emotions and transformative learning for sustainability: a systematic review	13
Pluriversality and beyond: consolidating radical alternatives to (mal-)development as a Commonist project	13
Attitudes of administrative decision-makers towards nature-based solutions for flood risk management in Germany	13
The missing intangibles: nature’s contributions to human wellbeing through place attachment and social capital	13
Business models for the Anthropocene: accelerating sustainability transformations in the private sector	13
Transforming universities	13
The effect of financial crises on deforestation: a global and regional panel data analysis	13
A multi-scale integrated assessment model to support urban sustainability	13
Sustainable pathways towards climate and biodiversity goals in the UK: the importance of managing land-use synergies and trade-offs	12
Expansion of soybean farming into deforested areas in the amazon biome: the role and impact of the soy moratorium	12
Stakeholder perceptions about the drivers, impacts and barriers of certification in the Ghanaian cocoa and oil palm sectors	12
A leverage points perspective on institutions for food security in a smallholder-dominated landscape in southwestern Ethiopia	12
Sustainability impacts of ecosystem approaches to small-scale aquaculture in Bangladesh	12
The role of a nature-based program in fostering multiple connections to nature	12
Invisible (bio)economies: a framework to assess the ‘blind spots’ of dominant bioeconomy models	12
System LCOE of variable renewable energies: a case study of Japan’s decarbonized power sector in 2050	12

An ecosystem service approach to the study of vineyard landscapes in the context of climate change: a review	12
Transforming to a regenerative U.S. agriculture: the role of policy, process, and education	12
How can diverse national food and land-use priorities be reconciled with global sustainability targets? Lessons from the FABLE initiative	12
Reflections on the popularity of the circular bioeconomy concept: the ontological crisis of sustainability science	12
Jin-jiyan-azadi. Matristic culture and Democratic Confederalism in Rojava	12
From hegemony-reinforcing to hegemony-transcending transformations: horizons of possibility and strategies of escape	12
Exploring mechanisms for systemic thinking in decision-making through three country applications of SDG Synergies	12
Working the boundary: science–policy interactions and uneven knowledge politics in IPBES	12
On which common ground to build? Transferable knowledge across cases in transdisciplinary sustainability research	12
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	11
Managing biodiversity in the Anthropocene: discussing the Nature Futures Framework as a tool for adaptive decision-making for nature under climate change	11
Does building development in Dhaka comply with land use zoning? An analysis using nighttime light and digital building heights	11
Environmental flows: issues and gaps—a critical analysis	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
The land–river interface: a conceptual framework of environmental process interactions to support sustainable development	11
Key capabilities for frugal innovation in developed economies: insights into the current transition towards sustainability	11
Long-term pathways analysis to assess the feasibility of sustainable land-use and food systems in Mexico	11
Capacity of countries to reduce biological invasions	11
Using knowledge to care for country: Indigenous-led evaluations of research to adaptively co-manage Kakadu National Park, Australia	11
A framework for assessing coupling and de-coupling trajectories in river social-ecological systems	11
Identifying leverage points for shifting Water-Energy-Food nexus cases towards sustainability through the Networks of Action Situations approach combined with systems thinking	11
Sustainable transitions towards a resilient and decentralised future: Japan’s Circulating and Ecological Sphere (CES)	11
Building up an ecologically sustainable and socially desirable post-COVID-19 future	11
Panarchy theory for convergence	11
IMAGINE sustainability: integrated inner-outer transformation in research, education and practice	11
Designing real-world laboratories for sustainable urban transformation: addressing ambiguous roles and expectations in transdisciplinary teams	11
From shops to bins: a case study of consumer attitudes and behaviours towards plastics in a UK coastal city	11
Local collective action for sustainability transformations: emerging narratives from local energy initiatives in The Netherlands	11
Carbon, cash, cattle and the climate crisis	11
Ranking the sustainable development goals: perceived sustainability priorities in small island states	10
Central–local governance gaps: the evolving differentiation of climate policies in China	10
Leveraging inner sustainability through cross-cultural learning: evidence from a Quichua field school in Ecuador	10
Irrigation modernization and the efficiency paradox: a meta-study through the lens of Networks of Action Situations	10
Biocultural conservation systems in the Mediterranean region: the role of values, rules, and knowledge	10
Environmental, nutritional and social assessment of nuts	10
The impact of weather changes on the supply and demand of electric power and wholesale prices of electricity in Germany	10
Effectiveness of a game-based class for interdisciplinary energy systems education in engineering courses	10
Fight and build: solidarity economy as ontological politics	10
Enablers and challenges when engaging local communities for urban biodiversity conservation in Australian cities	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
A system leverage points approach to governance for sustainable development	10
Using the three horizons approach to explore pathways towards positive futures for agricultural landscapes with rich biodiversity	10
Advancing sustainable development goals: embedding resilience assessment	10
Can the sustainable development goals harness the means and the manner of transformation?	10
Promoting sustainability education through hands-on approaches: a tree carbon sequestration exercise in a Singapore green space	10
The sustainability–peace nexus: why is it important?	10
Ecosystem services and disservices in the Luanhe River Basin in China under past, current and future land uses: implications for the sustainable development goals	10
Epistemic stability and epistemic adaptability: interdisciplinary knowledge integration competencies for complex sustainability issues	10
Is the EU shirking responsibility for its deforestation footprint in tropical countries? Power, material, and epistemic inequalities in the EU’s global environmental governance	10
Pathways to sustainable land use and food systems in Canada	9
Conceptualising sustainability through environmental stewardship and virtuous cycles—a new empirically-grounded model	9
Bringing the Nature Futures Framework to life: creating a set of illustrative narratives of nature futures	9
Analyzing the contributions of transdisciplinary research to the global sustainability agenda in African cities	9
Research strategies to catalyze agroecological transitions in low- and middle-income countries	9
Including marginalised voices in agricultural development processes using an ethical community engagement framework in West Bengal, India	9
Spirituality and sustainable development: an entangled and neglected relationship	9
Identification and characterization of potential change agents among agri-food producers: regime, niche and hybrid actors	9
How public catering accelerates sustainability: a German case study	9
The contributions of citizen science to SDG monitoring and reporting on marine plastics	9
Transformation archetypes in global food systems	9
From Ampesie to French fries: systematising the characteristics, drivers and impacts of diet change in rapidly urbanising Accra	9
Transforming environmental governance: critical action intellectuals and their praxis in the field	9
The many faces of Post-Development: alternatives to development in Tanzania, Iran and Haiti	9
Enhancing the sustainability science agenda through Indigenous methodology	9
Unlocking and accelerating transformations to the SDGs: a review of existing knowledge	9
Understanding the bioeconomy through its instruments: standardizing sustainability, neoliberalizing bioeconomies?	9
Beyond synergies: understanding SDG trade-offs, equity and implementation challenges of sectoral climate change mitigation options	9
The human–technical–environmental systems framework for sustainability analysis	9
The role of context in identifying linkages between SDG 2 (food) and SDG 6 (water)	9
Transformations towards sustainable food systems: contrasting Swedish practitioner perspectives with the European Commission’s Farm to Fork Strategy	9
An extractive bioeconomy? Phosphate mining, fertilizer commodity chains, and alternative technologies	9
Humanitarian engineering at the sustainability-development nexus: mapping vulnerability and capability factors for communities at risk of water-based disasters	9
Participatory multi-stakeholder assessment of alternative development scenarios in contested landscapes	9
Can Pakistan achieve sustainable water security? Climate change, population growth and development impacts to 2100	9
Does scientific interest in the nature impacts of food align with consumer information-seeking behavior?	9
Sub-Saharan Africa’s international migration constrains its sustainable development under climate change	9
Participatory interventions for collective action and sustainable resource management: linking actors, situations and contexts through the IAD, NAS and SES frameworks	8
Beyond Japanese NDC: energy and macroeconomic transitions towards 2050 in emission pathways with multiple ambition levels	8
Scenario planning tools for mitigating industrial impacts on First Nations subsistence economies in British Columbia, Canada	8
How context affects transdisciplinary research: insights from Asia, Africa and Latin America	8
Threatened sustainability: extractivist tendencies in the forest-based bioeconomy in Finland	8
Place-based interpretation of the sustainable development goals for the land-river interface	8
Process ownership in science–practice collaborations: the special role of transdisciplinary processes in sustainable transitioning	8
Ownership and inequalities: exploring UNEP’s Environmental Cooperation for Peacebuilding Program	8
The making of sustainability: ideological strategies, the materiality of nature, and biomass use in the bioeconomy	8
Marae-opoly: supporting localised Māori climate adaptation decisions with serious games in Aotearoa New Zealand	8
Environmental principles for modern sustainable economic frameworks including the circular economy	8
Energizing a transformation to a circular bioeconomy: mechanisms to spread, deepen and broaden initiatives	8
Poverty and inequality implications of carbon pricing under the long-term climate target	8
Critical change agent characteristics and competencies for ensuring systemic climate adaptation interventions	8
Multi-target scenario discovery to plan for sustainable food and land systems in Australia	8
Terra incognita: the contribution of disaster risk reduction in unpacking the sustainability–peace nexus	8
Defining the “Positive Impact” of socio-technical systems for absolute sustainability: a literature review based on the identification of system design principles and management functions	8
Enabling collective agency for sustainability transformations through reframing in the Xochimilco social–ecological system	8
Developing methods of knowledge co-production across varying contexts to shape Sustainability Science theory and practice	8