Knowledge Systems for Sustainable Development

The Knowledge Systems for Sustainable Development (KSSD) Project seeks to understand and promote the design of effective systems to harness research-based knowledge for sustainability. We view "knowledge systems" as consisting of networks of linked actors, organizations, and objects that perform a number of knowledge-related functions (including research, innovation, development, demonstration, deployment, and adoption) involved in linking knowledge and know-how with action. In particular, KSSD’s research asks: What are the characteristics of effective knowledge systems? How does the effectiveness of such systems depend on social and environmental contexts? How can knowledge systems be made more effective in specific circumstances?

What's New

AAAS Symposium on "Knowledge Systems for Sustainable Development"

Clark on Sustainability science: A room of its own

Manuel-Navarrete and Gallopin on Syndromes of sustainability of development for assessing coupled human-environmental systems vulnerability

Jacobs and Buizer on Linking knowledge with action in the pursuit of sustainable water resources management

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