Risk communication and sustainability science: lessons from the field

摘要: Sustainability science aims to help societies across the globe address increased environmental and health crises risks that range from poverty climate change pandemics. With magnitude frequency of these large-scale different societies, scientists institutions have increasingly recognized need for improved communication collaboration among researchers, governments, businesses, communities. This article argues risk has fundamentally important contributions make sustainability science’s mission create use-inspired, “actionable science” can lead solutions. Risk research advance engage a wide stakeholders. kind engagement is especially in context addressing problems are characterized by high levels uncertainty complexity. We introduce three core tenets fundamental advancing science. specifically offers an understanding how system feedbacks, human perceptions, influence study design solutions within social ecological systems.