可持續(xù)發(fā)展科學(xué)探討全球、社會(huì)和人類系統(tǒng)之間的相互作用，以及導(dǎo)致這些系統(tǒng)退化的復(fù)雜機(jī)制，以及隨之而來(lái)的對(duì)人類福祉的風(fēng)險(xiǎn)。該雜志提供了一個(gè)平臺(tái)，將可持續(xù)發(fā)展科學(xué)建設(shè)成為一個(gè)不斷發(fā)展的學(xué)科，通過(guò)面對(duì)現(xiàn)有學(xué)科尚未解決的挑戰(zhàn)，為可持續(xù)發(fā)展的全球社會(huì)指明道路。這些努力包括同時(shí)理解現(xiàn)象和解決問(wèn)題，不確定性和預(yù)防性原則的應(yīng)用，知識(shí)的共同進(jìn)化和對(duì)問(wèn)題的認(rèn)識(shí)，以及全球和局部問(wèn)題解決之間的權(quán)衡。該雜志提倡基于科學(xué)的全球變化預(yù)測(cè)和影響評(píng)估，并尋求確保這些變化能夠被社會(huì)理解和接受的方法。可持續(xù)發(fā)展科學(xué)創(chuàng)造了一個(gè)跨學(xué)科的學(xué)術(shù)結(jié)構(gòu)和發(fā)現(xiàn)過(guò)程，融合了自然科學(xué)、社會(huì)科學(xué)和人文科學(xué)。

Sustainability Science probes interactions between global, social, and human systems, the complex mechanisms that lead to degradation of these systems, and concomitant risks to human well-being. The journal provides a platform for building sustainability science as an evolving academic discipline which can point the way to a sustainable global society by facing challenges that existing disciplines have not addressed. These include endeavors to simultaneously understand phenomena and solve problems, uncertainty and application of the precautionary principle, the co-evolution of knowledge and recognition of problems, and trade-offs between global and local problem solving.The journal promotes science-based predictions and impact assessments of global change, and seeks ways to ensure that these can be understood and accepted by society. Sustainability Science creates a transdisciplinary academic structure and discovery process that fuses the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities.