Kates, RW., WC Clark, R Corell, JM Hall, CC Jaeger, I Lowe, JJ McCarthy, HJ Schellnhuber, B Bolin, NM Dickson, et al 2001. Sustainability science. Science 292: 641-2

SS READER SECTION 2.1 EMERGING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: Much important research is done within the framework of the distinctive environmental or developmental sciences, so what seems to be different about sustainability science? It is first of all committed research, seeking solutions to problems posed by the needs of a sustainability transition. Second, it seeks integrated understanding of closely-coupled human-environment systems. And finally, it is as concerned with moving knowledge into actions as in creating knowledge itself. With a view toward promoting the research necessary to achieve such advances, the Reading proposes an initial set of core questions for sustainability science. These are meant to focus research attention on both the fundamental character of interactions between nature and society and on society's capacity to guide those interactions along more sustainable trajectories.

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