This paper compares strategies for agricultural sustainability based on natural sciences
with alternatives captured under the umbrella of sustainability
sciences, based on systems and mixed sciences approaches. It is argued that
intermediary research institutes by their position in between academia,
practice and between government and society are well
positioned to incorporate sustainability science. This requires boundary
management beyond the traditional boundaries of biological and
technical disciplines and their fields of application and retention of
methodology and knowledge within with units of scientists with
complementary knowledge and skills. To become effective doing
sustainability science can probably only be achieved after a prolonged
period of experimentation and evaluation, while the shared base of
theories, methods and networks form the core of such a knowledge system,
as contrasted to disciplinary groups.
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