The journal promotes science-based predictions and impact assessments of global change, and seeks ways to ensure that these can be understood and accepted by society. Sustainability Science creates a transdisciplinary academic structure and discovery process that fuses the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Probes interactions between global, social, and human systems Provides a platform for building sustainability science as an evolving academic discipline Promotes science-based predictions and impact assessments of global change, and public acceptance of findings