How can we better represent the coupled system that is nature and society
within models and conceptualisations designed
to present the landscape system, human system, and sustainability?
How are modern cultures responding and learning from emergent long-term
trends between the environment and human development, regarding the
sustainability of the human-landscape system?
How can the vulnerability or resilience of individual ecosystems and
human livelihoods be recognised within the coupled system,
and how may they be managed?
Can a model or set of boundaries be produced that could
predict the degradation of an environment according to current
activities and the socio-economic/environmental climate?
What is the best approach to direct the human-landscape system
towards sustaibability? Appealing to the market, governance,
culture or scientific field?
How can modern operational systems for monitoring and reporting on
environmental and social conditions be integrated
to provide more useful guidance for efforts to navigate
a transition toward sustainability?
HOw can independent activities of research planning, monitoring,
assessment and decision support be better integrated in to systems
for adaptive management and societal learning?
Further reading: Kates et al., 2001. Science's Compass: Sustainability Science. SCIENCE Vol 292
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