Over the next decade the global scientific community must take on the challenge of
delivering to society the knowledge and information necessary to assess the risks
humanity is facing from global change and to understand how society can effectively
mitigate dangerous changes and cope with the change that we cannot manage.
We refer to this field as ‘global sustainability research’. Global sustainability research
provides a new holistic approach to science, building upon and integrating expertise
within the sciences (social, natural, health, and engineering) and humanities.