Building urgent intergenerational bridges: assessing early career researcher integration in global sustainability initiatives

•Sustainability science faces multi-faceted intergenerational conundrums.•Early career researchers (ECRs) can help address these challenges.•Global sustainability initiatives increasingly work with ECRs.•But these collaborations are institutionally fragile.•Further integration of ECR networks can he...

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Published in:	Current opinion in environmental sustainability Vol. 39; pp. 153 - 159
Main Authors:	Søgaard Jørgensen, Peter, Evoh, Chijioke J, Cavaleri Gerhardinger, Leopoldo, Hughes, Alice C, Langendijk, Gaby S, Moersberger, Hannah, Pocklington, Jay, Mukherjee, Nibedita
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Elsevier B.V 01-08-2019
Subjects:	Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
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Summary:	•Sustainability science faces multi-faceted intergenerational conundrums.•Early career researchers (ECRs) can help address these challenges.•Global sustainability initiatives increasingly work with ECRs.•But these collaborations are institutionally fragile.•Further integration of ECR networks can help address this fragility. A double intergenerational conundrum abounds in sustainability science as young generations of researchers have relatively little influence on current strategic decisions, but inherit their potential future consequences as professionals as well as human-beings. Collaborating with early career researchers (ECRs) in global sustainability initiatives can help address this conundrum. Guided by a model for how enhanced collaboration with ECRs can emerge, we assess the current state of integration of ECRs in five major global sustainability initiatives. Highlighting the increasingly organized state of ECR networks, we find that initiatives increasingly collaborate with ECRs and that some initiatives integrate them at strategic decision-making levels. Yet, current forms of collaboration are often institutionally fragile and can be strengthened in this respect.
ISSN:	1877-3435 1877-3443 1877-3443
DOI:	10.1016/j.cosust.2019.10.001