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sustainability science  

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  • An integrative science, the key focus of which is to understand the dynamic interactions between people and their biophysical environment to secure future sustainability. It may be viewed as the reaction of scientists to the societal and political processes that were shaping the sustainable development agenda in the 1980s. [Source: Encyclopedia of Environmental Change; sustainability science]

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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/sustainability_science

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