Urban regions across the world have expanded rapidly in recent decades, affecting fragile
natural habitats, including in drylands, and threatening the achievement of the UN …

Highlights•There is an intrinsic tension between efficiency (E) and resilience (R).•Greater
resilience often means less efficiency, and vice versa.•Infrastructure systems tend to align …

Abstract The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represent a holistic and ambitious
agenda for transforming the world towards societal well-being, economic prosperity, and …

Equity is core to sustainability, but current interventions to enhance sustainability often fall
short in adequately addressing this linkage. Models are important tools for informing action …

Climate mitigation can bring air quality and health co-benefits. How these health impacts
might be distributed across countries remains unclear. Here we use a coupled climate …

Abstract The field of MultiSector Dynamics (MSD) explores the dynamics and co‐
evolutionary pathways of human and Earth systems with a focus on critical goods, services …

Despite decades of policy that strives to reduce nutrient and sediment export from
agricultural fields, surface water quality in intensively managed agricultural landscapes …

Despite the growing calls to integrate realistic human behavior in sustainability science
models, the representative rational agent prevails. This is especially problematic for climate …

Abstract Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is contingent on managing
complex interactions that create synergies and trade‐offs between different goals. It is …

Socio‐economic development pathways and their implications for the environment are
highly uncertain, and energy transitions will involve complex interactions among sectors …