Endogenizing culture in sustainability science research and policy

• DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1510010112
• Publication Date: 2015-07-07T18:31:11Z
• Authors: Marcellus M. Caldas; Matthew R. Sanderson; Martha Mather; Melinda D. Daniels; Jason S. Bergtold; Joseph Aistrup; Jessica L. Heier ...; David Haukos; Kyle Douglas-Mankin; Aleksey Y. Sheshukov; David Lopez-Carr
• Keywords: Sustainability science; Science Policy

Integrating the analysis of natural and social systems to achieve sustainability has been an international scientific goal for years (1, 2). However, full integration proven challenging, especially in regard role culture (3), which is often missing from complex equation. To enact policies practices that can sustainability, researchers policymakers must do a better job accounting culture, difficult though this task may be.