Integrating Economy, Environment and Society for Systemic Sustainability: Dynamics, Thresholds and Power Relations

Dear Colleagues,

Sustainable development today, much like democracy in political systems, remains the most viable and forward-looking strategy humanity has yet devised. There is simply no better framework for balancing growth, equity, and ecological integrity. Managing this development, however, requires a profound diffusion of understanding across disciplines—a genuine interdisciplinarity that transcends traditional academic boundaries.

This Topic seeks to explore the thresholds, feedback loops, and power relations that determine the resilience and adaptability of complex socio-ecological systems. We invite multidisciplinary contributions addressing a central question: “What defines sufficiency for system sustainability, and which factors are truly decisive?”

Topics of interest include sustainable resource management models, ecological–economic trade-offs, governance and policy integration, the social dimensions of green transitions, and holistic approaches to assessing sustainability.

By integrating perspectives from economics, ecology, environmental science, sociology, and systems theory, this collection aims to identify leverage points for steering society toward equilibrium, justice, and long-term resilience. We welcome theoretical, empirical, and modeling studies that advance the understanding of sustainability as an interconnected, evolving, and shared system—one that demands cooperation among all disciplines to chart sustainable futures.

Prof. Dr. Aleksy Kwilinski
Dr. Maciej Kardas
Topic Editors