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Evolution and structure of sustainability science

机译:可持续发展科学的演变和结构

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The concepts of sustainable development have experienced extraordinary success since their advent in the 1980s. They are now an integral part of the agenda of governments and corporations, and their goals have become central to the mission of research laboratories and universities worldwide. However, it remains unclear how far the field has progressed as a scientific discipline, especially given its ambitious agenda of integrating theory, applied science, and policy, making it relevant for development globally and generating a new interdisciplinary synthesis across fields. To address these questions, we assembled a corpus of scholarly publications in the field and analyzed its temporal evolution, geographic distribution, disciplinary composition, and collaboration structure. We show that sustainability science has been growing explosively since the late 1980s when foundational publications in the field increased its pull on new authors and intensified their interactions. The field has an unusual geographic footprint combining contributions and connecting through collaboration cities and nations at very different levels of development. Its decomposition into traditional disciplines reveals its emphasis on the management of human, social, and ecological systems seen primarily from an engineering and policy perspective. Finally, we show that the integration of these perspectives has created a new field only in recent years as judged by the emergence of a giant component of scientific collaboration. These developments demonstrate the existence of a growing scientific field of sustainability science as an unusual, inclusive and ubiquitous scientific practice and bode well for its continued impact and longevity.
机译:自1980年代问世以来,可持续发展的概念就取得了巨大的成功。现在,它们已成为政府和公司议程中不可或缺的一部分,其目标已成为全球研究实验室和大学使命的核心。然而,目前尚不清楚该领域作为一门科学学科进展了多大,特别是考虑到该领域的雄心勃勃的议程,即整合理论,应用科学和政策,使其与全球发展相关并在各个领域产生新的跨学科综合。为了解决这些问题,我们收集了该领域的一系列学术出版物,并分析了其时间演变,地理分布,学科组成和协作结构。我们表明,自1980年代后期以来,该领域的基础出版物增加了对新作者的吸引力,并加强了他们之间的互动,因此可持续科学一直在爆炸式增长。该领域具有不寻常的地理足迹,这些领域结合了各种贡献,并通过处于不同发展水平的协作城市和国家进行联系。它分解为传统学科后,揭示出其对人,社会和生态系统管理的重视,主要从工程和政策的角度来看。最后,我们证明这些观点的整合仅在最近几年才创造出一个新领域,这是由科学合作的巨大组成部分的出现所断定的。这些事态发展表明,可持续发展科学作为非同寻常,包容性和普遍存在的科学实践,正在不断发展,并且预示着其持续的影响和长寿。

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