Sammendrag
Despite the decades-long efforts of sustainability science and related policy and action programs, humanity
has not gotten closer to global sustainability. With its focus on the natural sciences, sustainability science is
not able to contribute sufficiently to the global transition to sustainability. This Perspective argues for transforming sustainability science into a transdisciplinary enterprise that can generate positive social and environmental change globally. In such transformation, the social sciences, humanities, and the arts can play an
important role to address the complex problems of culture, institutions, and human behavior. To realize a
truly integrated sustainability science, we need renewed research and public policies that reshape the
research ecosystem of universities, funding agencies, science communications, policymaking, and decision
making. Sustainability science must also engage with society and creatively employ all available sources of
knowledge in favor of creating a sustainable Earth.
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