Sustainability Science

Sustainability Science probes interactions between global, social, and human systems, the complex mechanisms that lead to degradation of these systems, and concomitant risks to human well-being. The journal provides a platform for building sustainability science as an evolving academic discipline which can point the way to a sustainable global society by facing challenges that existing disciplines have not addressed. These include endeavors to simultaneously understand phenomena and solve problems, uncertainty and application of the precautionary principle, the co-evolution of knowledge and recognition of problems, and trade-offs between global and local problem solving.The journal promotes science-based predictions and impact assessments of global change, and seeks ways to ensure that these can be understood and accepted by society. Sustainability Science creates a transdisciplinary academic structure and discovery process that fuses the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities.

可持续发展科学探讨全球、社会和人类系统之间的相互作用，以及导致这些系统退化的复杂机制，以及随之而来的对人类福祉的风险。该杂志提供了一个平台，将可持续发展科学建设成为一个不断发展的学科，通过面对现有学科尚未解决的挑战，为可持续发展的全球社会指明道路。这些努力包括同时理解现象和解决问题，不确定性和预防性原则的应用，知识的共同进化和对问题的认识，以及全球和局部问题解决之间的权衡。该杂志提倡基于科学的全球变化预测和影响评估，并寻求确保这些变化能够被社会理解和接受的方法。可持续发展科学创造了一个跨学科的学术结构和发现过程，融合了自然科学、社会科学和人文科学。