Editorial: Sustainability in transition

摘要

Sustainability has become a dominant concern of our age, despite a lack of agreement on exactly what it is or how to achieve it. This sets the concept of sustainability apart from, for example, the internet age or globalisation, whose meaning and achievability are clear enough, not least because they refer to phenomena already in existence. In contrast, sustainability often seems to be grounded in the future. So we should not be surprised to find that sustainability is hard to pin down in advance, and indeed, changing in front of us.