Sustainability Science

The new journal Sustainability Science seeks to understand the interactions within and between global, social, and human systems, the complex mechanisms that lead to degradation of these systems, and concomitant risks to human well-being and security. Authors are encouraged to be problem-oriented, proposing visions and methods for protecting and/or restoring these systems and linkages. The journal provides a platform for building a new academic discipline, sustainability science, which can point the way to a sustainable global society. The novelty of sustainability science lies in its approach to many challenges that existing disciplines have not addressed. These challenges include, but are not limited to, endeavors to simultaneously understand phenomena and solve problems, uncertainty and application of the precautionary principle, the coevolution of knowledge and recognition of problems, and trade-offs between global and local problem prevention and solving.