Shrivastava Paul, Stafford Smith Mark, O'Brien Karen, Zsolnai Laszlo
Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, USA.
CSIRO Land & Water, Canberra, Australia.
One Earth. 2020 Apr 24;2(4):329-340. doi: 10.1016/j.oneear.2020.04.010.
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.
尽管可持续发展科学以及相关政策和行动计划历经数十年努力，但人类仍未更接近全球可持续发展。由于专注于自然科学，可持续发展科学无法为全球向可持续发展的转型做出充分贡献。本观点主张将可持续发展科学转变为一个跨学科事业，使其能够在全球范围内带来积极的社会和环境变革。在这种转变中，社会科学、人文科学和艺术可以发挥重要作用，以解决文化、制度和人类行为等复杂问题。为实现真正综合的可持续发展科学，我们需要重新开展研究并制定公共政策，重塑大学、资助机构、科学传播、政策制定和决策的研究生态系统。可持续发展科学还必须与社会互动，并创造性地利用所有可用知识来源，以利于创造一个可持续的地球。
