We review 75 studies on the competition for biomass and production resources such as
land, water, labour and capital across food, feed and fuel production. We identified seven …

Agricultural intensification is required to feed the growing and increasingly demanding
human population. Intensification is associated with increasing use of resources, applied as …

Although research has explored ways to encourage sustainable consumption, many
problems of unsustainable consumption remain, suggesting a need to reconsider current …

Despite substantial focus on sustainability issues in both science and politics, humanity
remains on largely unsustainable development trajectories. Partly, this is due to the failure of …

There is an ongoing debate on what constitutes sustainable intensification of agriculture
(SIA). In this paper, we propose that a paradigm for sustainable intensification can be …

Drawing on seminal work by the late Donella Meadows, we propose a leverage points
perspective as a hitherto under‐recognized heuristic and practical tool for sustainability …

Highlights•Human–nature connections are receiving increasing attention in sustainability
science.•Relevant insights have been obtained in diverse disciplines, but integration is …

Highlights•Sustainable and ecological intensification differ less in their definitions than in
their discourses.•Ecological intensification is compatible with and relies on nature and …

Urbanization has become one of the most important issues which define the human
relationship with the ecosystem. Measuring progress towards sustainable or unsustainable …

Calls for more broad-based, integrated, useful knowledge now abound in the world of global
environmental change science. They evidence many scientists' desire to help humanity …