Strategies for Sustainability: Institutional and Organisational Challenges

The current mainstream sustainability science is still strongly focusing its analyses on outcomes in terms of CO2-emission reduction, reduction of biodiversity loss, soil quality and greening the economy. Although SD is certainly about striving towards such aims?it is after all about transforming currently existing societies towards more equitable ones by radically reducing resource consumption and emissions?sustainability science as a whole still does not put enough emphasis on the institutional settings that enable or hinder organizations in their pursuit of contributing to SD, be they business, state, or non-governmental. These settings provide the space within which actors and organizations can act strategically so that they can contribute to the different material objectives characterizing SD. The collection of papers presented here contributes some perspectives on and findings in that field, and even so, there remains no doubt that many more efforts need to be made.