Sustainability is complex: it emerges at the interface of ecology, society, economy, and culture and is subjected to influences from normative and political issues of equity and justice. This inherent complexity requires a wide range of actions and capacities in order to address interconnected sustainability challenges. In a recent publication, Caniglia et al. (2020) introduce a systematic approach that clarifies how knowledge emerges from and simultaneously supports processes of action and capacity building for sustainability. The authors present the main kinds of knowledge that support sustainability interventions and outline a pluralistic and integrated approach to connecting different kinds of action-oriented knowledge.
Action-oriented research in sustainability science aims to build knowledge in support of interventions and capacities for sustainability. In…
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Ideas for Sustainability 
So much jargon and doubletalk… makes me wonder just how useful this sort of “investigations” are…
Thanks for your frank comment! I certainly agree that sometimes it seems we have more and more frameworks on HOW to do sustainability than actual work that “does it” in some kind of practical way.