Towards a relational paradigm in sustainability research, practice, and education

• DOI: 10.1007/s13280-020-01322-y
• Publication Date: 2020-02-28T11:03:13Z
• Authors: Zack Walsh; Jessica Böhme; Christine Wamsler
• Keywords: Sustainability science

Relational thinking has recently gained increasing prominence across academic disciplines in an attempt to understand complex phenomena terms of constitutive processes and relations. Interdisciplinary fields study, such as science technology studies (STS), the environmental humanities, posthumanities, for example, have started reformulate understanding nature-cultures based on relational thinking. Although sustainability crisis serves a contemporary backdrop fact calls innovative forms interdisciplinary scholarship, field research not yet tapped into rich possibilities offered by Against this background, purpose paper is identify approaches ontology, epistemology, ethics which are relevant research. More specifically, we analyze how been understood conceptualized broad range contexts harness connections contributions future sustainability-related work. Our results highlight common themes patterns approaches, helping characterize paradigm within On basis, conclude with call action researchers co-develop agenda advancing research, practice, education.