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{"title":"Mission-oriented agrifood innovation systems in the making: a transdisciplinary approach to identify context-specific drivers of change.","authors":"Alexandra Frangenheim, Marie Louise Schneider, Cornelia Fischer, Susanne Waiblinger, Stefan Hörtenhuber, Verena Radinger-Peer, Marianne Penker","doi":"10.1007/s11625-025-01719-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11625-025-01719-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A new generation of transformative policies has recently led to conceptual advances that map and evaluate agrifood innovation dynamics that contribute to the fulfillment of a societal mission within clearly defined time frames. In the context of the \"European Green Deal\", national policies are being implemented with varying levels of government ambition and rigor, which is not yet reflected in these concepts. This article provides a framework and a methodology to help multi- and transdisciplinary teams to operationalize the transformation of an agrifood innovation system (AIS) into a mission-oriented agrifood innovation system (MAIS) in the absence of clear policy goals and objectives, i.e., where policymakers do not provide for the development of a mission. Within the safe space of a transdisciplinary research project, researchers and practitioners aim to understand where to start a sustainability transformation by examining subsectoral, transformative and directable drivers of change (DoC) in Austrian beef and dairy. To gather and integrate knowledge from different scientific and societal perspectives on how to transform this specific subsector, they established and facilitated a policy-independent, transdisciplinary mission arena. Besides context-specific results related to Austrian beef and dairy supply, we discuss the contribution of our transdisciplinary research to identify transformative and directable DoC as leverage points for transforming an AIS into a MAIS. Moreover, we explore the potentials, challenges and limitations of a policy-independent, transdisciplinary mission arena to provide orientation in the absence of national sustainability goals and objectives. Our conclusion includes a brief outlook for further research.</p><p><strong>Supplementary information: </strong>The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11625-025-01719-2.</p>","PeriodicalId":49457,"journal":{"name":"Sustainability Science","volume":"20 6","pages":"2265-2280"},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12554819/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145394694","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Impact of land transformation, management and governance on subjective wellbeing across social-ecological systems.","authors":"Patricia Santillán-Carvantes, Alejandra Tauro, Patricia Balvanera, Juan Miguel Requena-Mullor, Antonio J Castro, Cristina Quintas-Soriano, Berta Martín-López","doi":"10.1007/s11625-024-01584-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11625-024-01584-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Recognizing and understanding the subjective wellbeing (SWB) of individuals is essential for designing effective policies that promote human development and the sustainable management of social-ecological systems (SES). This is particularly important for smallholders, critical stewards of biodiversity who face acute livelihood challenges. This article explores how smallholders inhabiting tropical dry forests in Mexico perceive their SWB and how it changes across a spectrum of SES that undergo different land transformations, management intensities, and governance dynamics. Our aims are to identify the dimensions of SWB that smallholders perceive, understand how these dimensions change across SES, and examine how smallholders' perceptions of fulfilled material and non-material dimensions vary across SES. We analyzed the content of 25 in-depth interviews with farmers and identified 48 SWB items belonging to six categories: (1) social capital, (2) economic capital, (3) agency, (4) nature, (5) pleasant non-work activities, and (6) governmental services, and two additional dimensions referred to obstacles and enablers. We found two prevailing visions of SWB: 'living well' prevails especially in areas with communal governance and medium management intensity, and 'need to earn more' prevails in areas with individual governance and intensified land management. As management is intensified and governance fosters individualism, the lower the self-perceived material and non-material satisfaction. We discuss the different SWB found per SES, as well as strategies that can foster smallholder's SWB and SES dynamics that can motivate different conservation goals and sustainable uses of nature, especially in biodiverse areas.</p><p><strong>Supplementary information: </strong>The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11625-024-01584-5.</p>","PeriodicalId":49457,"journal":{"name":"Sustainability Science","volume":"20 2","pages":"469-483"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11937195/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143732544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A typology of interdisciplinary collaborations: insights from agri-food transformation research.","authors":"Benjamin Hofmann, Ueli Reber, Priska Ammann, Julia Dötzer, Jennifer Mark, Chloe McCallum, Milena Wiget, Lucca Zachmann","doi":"10.1007/s11625-025-01702-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11625-025-01702-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>To understand complex societal transformations, scholars have called for more interdisciplinary research in which researchers from various disciplines collaborate. To support the implementation of such collaborations, we introduce a novel typology of interdisciplinary collaborations developed from the literature and from structured reflection on our own research experience. The typology distinguishes (I) common base, (II) common destination, and (III) sequential link type of interdisciplinary collaborations. Common base refers to an interdisciplinary collaboration at one research stage that later separates into parallel disciplinary work; common destination to a collaboration where separate disciplinary work feeds into joint interdisciplinary work at the next stage; and sequential link to a completed stage of disciplinary research that provides the basis for research in another discipline. We illustrate the typology with a case study of interdisciplinary collaborations in a research project that studied the potential for an evidence-based transformation of agricultural pesticide governance. The project involved researchers from seven natural, health, and social science disciplines who developed a process for forming and maintaining interdisciplinary collaborations. We provide five examples of interdisciplinary collaborations from the project, explaining for each its practical design and implementation, its contribution to overall research goals, and related opportunities and challenges. The examples show that the typology can systematize the thinking about interdisciplinary collaborations and enable critical reflection about interdisciplinary research design and implementation. Based on our reflections as early-career researchers, we conclude with lessons that can inform future interdisciplinary research projects on agri-food transformation and beyond.</p>","PeriodicalId":49457,"journal":{"name":"Sustainability Science","volume":"20 5","pages":"1791-1808"},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12414061/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145024653","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Value change debt as a window of opportunity for transformative change: a case study on the mixed Indigenous food system of St. Paul Island, Alaska.","authors":"Silja Zimmermann, Brian J Dermody, Courtney Carothers, Valeria Di Fant, Lauren M Divine, Kadyn Lestenkof-Zacharof, Veronica M Padula, Bert Theunissen, Martin J Wassen, Ine Dorresteijn","doi":"10.1007/s11625-025-01665-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11625-025-01665-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Arctic Indigenous food systems are essential to the survival of local communities, but face significant challenges due to environmental, economic, and social pressures. The objective of this study is to elicit values of the mixed Indigenous food system on St. Paul Island, Alaska, and understand their potential as deep leverage points for transformative change in the context of their historical co-evolution with the local food system. To achieve this objective, we engage three generational groups within the Aleut Community of St. Paul Island to obtain local food system stories. From these stories, we (i) elicit historical events that are thought to have shaped the local food system, (ii) identify factors that influence the food system in its present and future states, and (iii) delineate intrinsic, instrumental, and relational food system values. Our findings show that most identified historical events are perceived to have undermined the Indigenous food system and that most factors identified to shape present and future food system states present barriers for community members to engage in traditional practices. Yet, despite this, values that relate to traditional Indigenous livelihoods remain central in the local value system. These results suggest a value change debt, i.e., a time lag between changes in peoples' held values following changes in the system around them. We propose that this lag provides a window of opportunity to leverage transformative change. We argue that as long as traditional food system values persist, there is potential to reconfigure the food system in a way that embraces these values, enhancing the system's relevance to the community's way of life.</p><p><strong>Supplementary information: </strong>The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11625-025-01665-z.</p>","PeriodicalId":49457,"journal":{"name":"Sustainability Science","volume":"20 5","pages":"1883-1901"},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12414080/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145024623","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Beyond the urban shift: towards a relational degrowth spatial politics.","authors":"A Varvarousis, G Kallis, C Catanneo, F Sekulova, M Tsagkari, A Slamersak, M Conde, G Dalisa, K Hanacek, B Roy","doi":"10.1007/s11625-024-01590-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11625-024-01590-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Degrowth is coming of age, and its analysis of what can be called <i>degrowth spatial politics</i> is advancing rapidly. In this article, we attempt to unravel the history of spatial thought in the degrowth literature to reveal its tendencies, tipping points, and blank spots. We argue that the more recent degrowth spatial literature overly focuses on the big urban scale by reversing what has purportedly been one of the weak spots of degrowth scholarship: its focus and preference for small-scale, relocalization, and decentralized communities. While we see the merit of this shift, first, we try to contextualize it in the broader sustainability discourse, and second, we contend that it has not been without problems and omissions. We see three predicaments stemming from it: first, a deficit of the degrowth spatial literature in recognizing and engaging with unsustainable rural transformations such as rural depopulation and shrinkage, as well as rural dispossession and depeasantisation. Second, a difficulty to account for urban and rural interconnectedness and engage with new epistemological frames that emerge in urban studies, such as planetary urbanization. Third, the urban shift may affect the capacity of degrowth to remain pluriversal, anti-colonial, and grassroots-fueled, or what Chertkovskaya et al. (Towards a political economy of degrowth. Rowman & Littlefield, 2019. https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=PuXaDwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PP1&dq=info:c45bQLgYCfYJ:scholar.google.com&ots=5LsDF9Y_Er&sig=buZn4ogpUN4octi3_WFJf1mO9Lg) called <i>nomadic utopianism</i>. Finally, in the concluding part, we set the stepstones for a relational degrowth spatial politics, focusing on a solidary connection of space and place across the urban and rural and in multiple scales. This approach avoids the pitfalls of both degrowth proposals for relocalization and those who put excessive trust in urban transformations alone.</p>","PeriodicalId":49457,"journal":{"name":"Sustainability Science","volume":"20 2","pages":"485-498"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11937061/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143732486","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Nothing about us without us: harnessing local voices in shaping community-based adaptation in the Pacific.","authors":"Hannah Turner, Briony Rogers, Sarah Kneebone, Diego Ramirez, Matthew French, Mere Jane Sawailau, Filise Volavola, Sholyn Baran, Kelera Matavesi, Orlando Newton, Maraia Batiota Luveniyali, Autiko Tela, Isoa Vakarewa","doi":"10.1007/s11625-025-01638-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-025-01638-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As global temperatures rise, so does the frequency and intensity of severe weather events and their risks to people and assets. These risks are especially acute for Pacific Islanders in urban informal settlements, given their socio-economic vulnerabilities and limited political influence. There is growing awareness that national adaptation strategies may not fully meet the needs of these vulnerable communities, leading to a focus on community-led adaptation. However, these approaches are in their infancy and have been criticised for fostering paternalistic tendencies, prompting calls for external institutions to facilitate rather than direct community initiatives. This research utilises Photovoice, a method recognised for its cultural relevance and ability to amplify Indigenous and marginalised voices. It involves 42 households in Fiji's Greater Suva Urban Area, using resident-led photography and interviews to explore community-based flood adaptation. Through ethnographic content analysis and inductive coding, the study captures residents' experiences and strategies, identifying over 31 unique adaptation measures and underscoring the importance of resources, social networks, traditional knowledge, beliefs, and leadership in enhancing adaptive capacity. The findings demonstrate the complexity of factors influencing adaptation, with resource availability and social capital being crucial. The study advocates for adaptive processes that are community driven, calling for a shift in research and funding to support these programmes in a flexible, responsive, and inclusive manner. It also highlights the need to understand community dynamics to prevent paternalistic practices and integrate local insights effectively, ensuring community self-determination in adaptation efforts.</p>","PeriodicalId":49457,"journal":{"name":"Sustainability Science","volume":"20 3","pages":"877-902"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12033194/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144047165","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Transformative capacities for navigating system change: a framework for sustainability research and practice.","authors":"Christopher J Orr, Sarah Burch","doi":"10.1007/s11625-025-01658-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-025-01658-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In the face of climate change and other ecological pressures, there is urgent need to transform human systems and their society-nature relationships. However, there is a gap between transformative ambitions and our ability to enable transformative change. The relationship between sustainability transformations in practice and the transformative capacities that enable them is complex and indirect, requiring integrative frameworks to clarify the relationships between what transformations entail and the capacities needed to enable them. We develop the integrative transformative capacities framework (TCF) to conceptualize how sustainability transformations relate to the capacities to realize them in terms of the focal system and the strategies needed to bring about a desired change. We illustrate this framework, proposing key features of sustainability transformations, then identifying strategies for change associated with each feature and the capacities required to implement each strategy. We conclude by discussing some challenges of theorizing, identifying, and building transformative capacities and how the TCF addresses these challenges. This framework can help researchers be explicit about their assumptions and decisions about systems change, strategies to influence change, and the capacities to enable different actors to meaningfully contribute to change.</p>","PeriodicalId":49457,"journal":{"name":"Sustainability Science","volume":"20 3","pages":"975-992"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12033196/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144043343","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Monitoring environmental sustainability in Japan: an ESGAP assessment","authors":"Masahiro Sato, Arkaitz Usubiaga-Liaño, Alison Fairbrass, Paul Ekins, Jusen Asuka","doi":"10.1007/s11625-023-01441-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-023-01441-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49457,"journal":{"name":"Sustainability Science","volume":"45 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139440953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Directing personal sustainability science toward subjective experience: conceptual, methodological, and normative cornerstones for a first-person inquiry into inner worlds","authors":"Pascal Frank, Johannes Wagemann, Julius Grund, Oliver Parodi","doi":"10.1007/s11625-023-01442-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-023-01442-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49457,"journal":{"name":"Sustainability Science","volume":"47 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139382244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Critical hydrologic impacts from climate change: addressing an urgent global need","authors":"Jim Falk, P. Gleick, Shinichiro Asayama, Faten Attig-Bahar, Swadin Behera, Joachim von Braun, Rita R. Colwell, Ashok K. Chapagain, Adel S. El-Beltagy, Charles F. Kennel, Masahide Kimoto, Toshio Koike, Agnes Asiimwe Konde, P. Koundouri, Sameh Kotb Mohamed Abd-Elmabod, Rattan Lal, Yuan Tseh Lee, C. Murray, Vina Nangia, Amy Sapkota, T. Saijo, Ismail Serageldin, J. Soussana, Kaoru Takara, Kazuhiko Takeuchi, Thong Tran, David Victor, Chiho Watanabe, Kevin Wheeler, T. Yasunari","doi":"10.1007/s11625-023-01428-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-023-01428-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49457,"journal":{"name":"Sustainability Science","volume":"60 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139451036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}