Establishing sustainability science in higher education institutions: towards an integration of academic development, institutionalization, and stakeholder collaborations

The field of sustainability science aims to understand the complex and dynamic interactions between natural and human systems in order to transform and develop these in a sustainable manner. As sustainability problems cut across diverse academic disciplines, ranging from the natural sciences to the social sciences and humanities, interdisciplinarity has become a central idea to the realm of sustainability science. Yet, for addressing complicated, real-world sustainability problems, interdisciplinarity per se does not suffice. Active collaboration with various stakeholders throughout society-transdisciplinarity-must form another critical component of sustainability science. In addition to implementing interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity in practice, higher education institutions also need to deal with the challenges of institutionalization. In this article, drawing on the experiences of selected higher education academic programs on sustainability, we discuss academic, institutional, and societal challenges in sustainability science and explore the potential of uniting education, research and societal contributions to form a systematic and integrated response to the sustainability crisis.

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP Annan samhällsvetenskap Tvärvetenskapliga studier inom samhällsvetenskap hsv//swe
SOCIAL SCIENCES Other Social Sciences Social Sciences Interdisciplinary hsv//eng
Higher education institutions
Interdisciplinarity
Transdisciplinarity
Institutionalization
Stakeholder collaboration
Social experimentation

Trencher, Gregory (author)
Mino, Takashi (author)
Scholz, Roland W. (author)
Olsson, LennartLund University,Lunds universitet,LUCSUS,Samhällsvetenskapliga institutioner och centrumbildningar,Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten,LUCSUS (Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies),Departments of Administrative, Economic and Social Sciences,Faculty of Social Sciences(Swepub:lu)micl-lol (author)
Ness, BarryLund University,Lunds universitet,LUCSUS,Samhällsvetenskapliga institutioner och centrumbildningar,Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten,LUCSUS (Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies),Departments of Administrative, Economic and Social Sciences,Faculty of Social Sciences(Swepub:lu)micl-bne (author)
Frantzeskaki, Niki (author)
Rotmans, Jan (author)
LUCSUSSamhällsvetenskapliga institutioner och centrumbildningar (creator_code:org_t)

In:Sustainability Science: Springer Science and Business Media LLC7, s. 101-1131862-40571862-4065

By the author/editor: Yarime, Masaru; Trencher, Gregor ...; Mino, Takashi; Scholz, Roland W ...; Olsson, Lennart; Ness, Barry; show more...; Frantzeskaki, Ni ...; Rotmans, Jan; show less...

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