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Community Essay: What do we mean by sustainable landscape?
As an academic working in the field of landscape design and planning, I continually encounter references to the idea of a “sustainable landscape.” It is a concept of growing... -
Community Essay: Planning for landscape multifunctionality
The term “multifunctional landscapes” has been greeted with suspicion in some quarters as unnecessary jargon for which there are simpler and better-known alternatives, such as... -
Editorial: Sustainability needs to be attained, not managed
Sustainability and its derivatives fall into the same class as a few of the key concepts underlying liberal democracies everywhere—like equality, freedom, and liberty—that are... -
How not what: teaching sustainability as process
Citation: DuPuis E. & Ball T. 2013. How not what: teaching sustainability as process. Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy 9(1):64-75. Published online Feb 27,... -
Democratic deliberation for sustainability transformations: between construct...
The discourse on sustainability transformations moves beyond accommodationist, reformist framings of sustainability to imply a radical, systemic shift toward new sustainable... -
Editorial: Cultural change for a bearable climate
Only by intentionally harnessing key societal institutions—namely education, business, the media, government, traditions, and social movements—will we be able to transform... -
Integrated scenarios of sustainable food production and consumption in Germany
Keyword: food consumption, sustainability, strategy, public policy Citation: Lorenz U. & Veenhoff S. 2013. Integrated scenarios of sustainable food production and... -
Editorial: Editorial on Sustainability e-Journal
Open access will certainly make all those involved in the production, distribution, and consumption of science more aware of how interdependent they are. Sustainability will... -
A modest proposal: global rationalization of ecological footprint to eliminat...
In the context of ecological overshoot, extreme poverty, and profligate consumption, we propose using ecological footprint analysis (EFA) to regulate and rationalize material... -
Community Essay: Thresholds of sustainability: policy challenges of regime sh...
With a bang or with a whimper? A number of studies address this key question related to the ways in which ecosystems degrade. Our angle is slightly different. In this essay, we... -
100% renewable energy policies in U.S. cities: strategies, recommendations, a...
Interviews and a survey were conducted with civil society advocates and government officials in U.S. cities and counties that have made a commitment to 100% clean, renewable,... -
Ecotourism and nature-reserve sustainability in environmentally fragile poor ...
This article explores the applicability of the conventional wisdom that economic growth is paramount to environmental sustainability by examining ecotourism and nature-reserve... -
The Just Transition and its work of inequality
Changing our relation to the environment in a democratic way implies questioning models and methods of socioecological relations—including work relations. This article... -
Editorial: Factor 10: The future of stuff
Given current economic and environmental policies, nature’s lifesustaining services will continue to decline at a rapid pace. “Business as usual” may put human life on Earth... -
Rethinking the economist’s evaluation toolkit in light of sustainability policy
The dominant economic evaluation technique is benefit-cost analysis (BCA). However, sustainability policy must handle outcomes that cannot easily be quantified in monetary... -
Narratives of urban mobility in Germany: on the threshold of a departure from...
The mobility sector poses multiple challenges for sustainable development. Its large contribution to climate change, its impacts on the local environment through noise,... -
Community Essay: Sustainable development of the Amazon forest: a fine line be...
This essay constitutes a piece of boundary work between science and policy. It illustrates the conflicts, but also the opportunities, that natural resource management encounters...
