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Academic landscape of 10 years of sustainability science

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Endeavor to build sustainability science as a discipline during the last decade promoted interdisciplinary integration. This paper analyses the development of sustainability science during the decades and contribution of Sustainability Science journal. Based on our analysis, the specific contribution of Sustainability Science is to integrate different theories, models, cases, and experiences as transdisciplinary expertise. We found that the journal could be characterized by the core research clusters of sustainability science, namely, “Environmental and Social Systems” and “Economy and Business Systems”. Sustainability science now seems to be building distinguished interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research field based on coupled socio-ecological systems and integrated social–economical systems.

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  1. School of Environment and Society, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 3-3-6 Shibaura, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 108-0023, Japan

    Yuya Kajikawa

  2. Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability, United Nations University, Jingumae, 5-53-70, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, 150-8925, Japan

    Osamu Saito & Kazuhiko Takeuchi

  3. Integrated Research System for Sustainability Science (IR3S), The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8654, Japan

    Kazuhiko Takeuchi

  4. Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), 2108-11 Kamiyamaguchi, Hayama, Kanagawa, 240-0115, Japan

    Kazuhiko Takeuchi

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Kajikawa, Y., Saito, O. & Takeuchi, K. Academic landscape of 10 years of sustainability science. Sustain Sci 12, 869–873 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-017-0477-6

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