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This discussion will focus on the question of how sustainability students, researchers and practitioners can move towards a more just world through their praxis. In arguing for a process, rather than an object-oriented sustainability,  Dr. Julie Sze (with others) suggests that we need to move and

The Northeast Shelf Regional Ecosystem (NSRE) is experiencing some of the highest rates of ocean temperature change in the world. High-resolution climate models have predicted future temperatures may be higher than originally estimated from lower resolution models. These changes in temperature will

Social science research in rangelands has increasingly shown how the expertise of pastoralists enables them to thrive in highly variable environments. This work has also shown how pastoralists are modifying their practices in complex ways in response to new social, political, economic, and

Managing ecosystems to provide ecosystem services in the face of global change is a pressing challenge for policy and science. The consequences of global change (e.g., extreme events and species loss) for ecosystem services will depend on how different populations and species respond, as well as on

Large carnivores have been recovering in Europe for the last 50 years. There are currently 17.000 brown bears, 17.000 wolves, 8.000 Eurasian lynx, and 1.000 wolverines sharing space with 500 million humans in a landscape that has almost been totally transformed by human activity for millennia. This

Pandemics are increasingly used to explain historical transformations, but pandemics alone do not inevitably lead to drastic change. As the ongoing COVID pandemic has made all too clear, the impact of a pandemic is a result of a dynamic interaction between human societies and the environments they

Climate is changing worldwide and even more rapidly in the Arctic than elsewhere on earth, even as human industrial developments are expanding in remote Arctic regions. In tandem with these changes, many barren-ground caribou populations—of immeasurable importance to arctic ecosystems and local

Urban food systems like the Victory Gardens of WWI and WWII emerge and react to socio-economic distress but often disappear post disaster. Distress from the COVID-19 pandemic places cities dependent on long-distance supply chains at risk of both disease and food insecurity. One alternative urban

As the whole world has faced unprecedented crises including the current COVID-19 crisis, mitigation of climate change risk has been strongly urged. A global community has failed to make distinctive progress to establish a global collective action to mitigate climate change risk. Reflected in the

Green infrastructure (GI) has become a panacea for cities working to reach sustainability and resilience goals, appearing across the urban to sub-urban gradient. While the rationale for GI has primarily focused on a multitude of benefits (e.g., ecosystem services), uncertainties remain around when

Marine fisheries are a critical component of global food security and provide employment for nearly 40 million fishers worldwide. Many unmanaged fisheries in developing countries continue to be severely overfished. However, managed fisheries around the world, on average, reached their nadir in the

Nitrogen (N) is both necessary for life and potentially harmful to it, so the amount and distribution of reactive forms of nitrogen around the world is an important matter. While N is often viewed as a pollutant (think fertilizer runoff and ocean dead zones), there are reasons to expect that rising

Over the past two decades, there has been a sustained increase in the development and number of marine spatial plans. Managers and governments have embraced the approach as a way to maintain ecological integrity of marine environments while ensuring continued provisioning of economic, social, and