Phosphorus security is emerging as one of the twenty-first century's greatest global
sustainability challenges. Phosphorus has no substitute in food production, and the use of …

The field of science and technology studies (STS) has introduced and developed a
“sociotechnical” perspective that has been taken up by many disciplines and areas of …

Executive Summary The IPCC Working Group II contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report
addresses the challenges of climate action in the context of sustainable development with a …

This book offers a major new theory of global governance, explaining both its rise and what
many see as its current crisis. The author suggests that world politics is now embedded in a …

This paper distills core lessons about how researchers (scientists, engineers, planners, etc.)
interested in promoting sustainable development can increase the likelihood of producing …

It is increasingly clear that the world of climate politics is no longer confined to the activities
of national governments and international negotiations. Critical to this transformation of the …

Humanity has emerged as a major force in the operation of the biosphere, with a significant
imprint on the Earth System, challenging social–ecological resilience. This new situation …

Global partnerships have transformed international institutions by creating platforms for
direct collaboration with NGOs, foundations, companies and local actors. They introduce a …

The article focuses on the politicization of international authority as a thus far little
understood development in world politics. We first define the concept and show that there is …

The articles in this special feature challenge the presumption that scholars can make simple,
predictive models of social–ecological systems (SESs) and deduce universal solutions …