Sustainability science demands that we define our terms across diverse disciplines

Synergy of Disciplines for Sustainability

Transition is a process of societal change and the consequence of shifting from an unsustainable to a more sustainable state by tackling persistent problems. Transition management is a framework concerned with long term and sustainability-oriented approaches focusing on conceptual learning, reframing and transformative outcomes. In this context, transition models are useful tools to represent t...

Olfactory consciousness across disciplines

Although vision is the de facto model system of consciousness research, studying olfactory consciousness has its own advantages, as this collection of articles emphatically demonstrates. One advantage of olfaction is its computational and phenomenological simplicity, which facilitates the identification of basic principles. Other researchers study olfactory consciousness not because of its simp...

Contents Ontologies across disciplines

The Shifting Boundaries of Sustainability Science: Are We Doomed Yet?

In this issue of PLoS Biology, Burger and colleagues make several important contributions to the discourse of sustainability science, recalling limits of human economic and population growth derived from macroecology and physical principles [1]. We agree with many of the points offered in their paper in this issue and with those in the paper by Brown and colleagues [2]. However, we also believe...

Collaboration across disciplines for sustainability: green chemistry as an emerging multistakeholder community.

Sustainable solutions to our nation's material and energy needs must consider environmental, health, and social impacts while developing new technologies. Building a framework to support interdisciplinary interactions and incorporate sustainability goals into the research and development process will benefit green chemistry and other sciences. This paper explores the contributions that diverse ...