Themes

Research on the sustainability transformation focuses on climate change, biodiversity loss and the depletion of natural resources in a multidisciplinary and solution-oriented manner. Research topics include citizens’ lifestyles, planetary well-being and health, production and consumption, governance and justice, and cultural change.

Cross-cutting, transdisciplinary themes

• Futures skills and competencies
• Sustainable business and working life
• Leadership and management in societal change
• Cultural transformations and social imagination
• Policies, legal systems and means of regulation
• Ecosystems, planetary health and planetary wellbeing
• Civil society and democratic development

New approaches

We study the phenomena of the sustainability transformation through new approaches:

• Rethinking the commons
• Rethinking justice
• Rethinking efficiency
• Rethinking business and economy

Language carries culture

SusTra operates in multiple languages. You can familiarize with our Language guidelines here.

Read more from the blog published in May ’26: Language carries culture also in research – Puheenvuoroja. The blog is written by SusTra professors Leena Aarikka-Stenroos, Minna Halme, Arto O. Salonen, and research manager Meri Löyttyniemi.