The Sustainability Theorist

Getting theory right matters for sustainability science. The field is a “big tent” made out of many different research programs and disciplinary perspectives. Working out the theory is how those programs come to share a vocabulary, how they learn from one another rather than talking past one another, and, I think, how the field as a whole gets stronger.

The essays here are where I try to work some of that out, with less jargon than a journal article allows and (hopefully) more fun to read. Some of the thinking will end up in articles eventually; some of it won’t. Either way, this is a way to have the discussion now. Most are mine, with occasional guests, roughly one a month. Reactions, disagreements, and ideas are very welcome.