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Author(s): Kates, Robert W., William C. Clark, Robert Corell, J. Michael Hall, Carlo C. Jaeger, Ian Lowe, James J. McCarthy, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Bert Bolin, Nancy M. Dickson, Sylvie Faucheux, Gilberto C. Gallopín, Arnulf Gruebler, Brian Huntley, Jill Jäger, Narpat S. Jodha, Roger E. Kasperson, Akin Mabogunje, Pamela Matson, Harold Mooney, Berrien Moore III, Timothy O'Riordan, and Uno Svedin.


Citation: Kates, Robert W., William C. Clark, Robert Corell, J. Michael Hall, Carlo C. Jaeger, Ian Lowe, James J. McCarthy, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Bert Bolin, Nancy M. Dickson, Sylvie Faucheux, Gilberto C. Gallopín, Arnulf Gruebler, Brian Huntley, Jill Jäger, Narpat S. Jodha, Roger E. Kasperson, Akin Mabogunje, Pamela Matson, Harold Mooney, Berrien Moore III, Timothy O'Riordan, and Uno Svedin. 2001. Sustainability Science. Science  292: 641-2.
URL: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/292/5517/641?ijkey=MUU8kNHodD.22&keytype=ref&siteid=sci

Meeting fundamental human needs while preserving earth's life support systems will require an accelerated transition toward sustainability. A new field of sustainability science is evolving that seeks to understand the fundamental character of interactions between nature and society and to encourage those interactions along more sustainable trajectories. Such an integrated, place-based science will require new research strategies and institutional innovations to enable them especially in developing countries still separated by deepening divides from mainstream science. Sustainability science needs to be widely discussed in the scientific community, reconnected to the political agenda for sustainable development, and become a major focus for research.

Note: A longer version of the paper with full citations is available at  http://sustainabilityscience.org/ists/docs/2000-33.pdf

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Independent Scholar, Initiative on Science and Technology for Sustainability (ISTS)

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Dean, School of Earth Sciences, Stanford University, United States

William Clark
Professor of International Science, Public Policy and Human Development, Harvard University

Robert W. Corell
Senior Fellow, American Meteorological Society, United States

Jill Jäger
Senior Researcher, Sustainable Europe Research Institute (SERI), Austria

Nancy Dickson
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Narpat S. Jodha
Policy Analyst, International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Nepal

James J. McCarthy
Alexander Agassiz Professor of Biological Oceanography, Harvard University, United States

Hans Joachim Schellnhuber
Research Director, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, United Kingdom

                                                     
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