Contributions of science–society interactions to spur sustainability transformations in vulnerable landscapes

The effects of the great global environmental changes, such as climate change or biodiversity loss, create a serious threat to our society.In particular, vulnerable regions (e.g., biophysical regions or 'protection' categories like BRs, small islands, etc.) who are particularly prone to the global environmental changes (e.g., climate change, biodiversity losses) are highly sensitive to the accelerated and intensified consequences of global transformation.Therefore, these adverse changes in vulnerable regions need transformative shifts to avoid potential loss and damage by adapting and/or mitigating current and future impacts.Various policy strategies and programs, such as UNE-SCO's Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Programme, the Panta Rhei initiative in water management, FAO Mountain Partnerships, or the Alpine Convention Mountain Research Initiative (MRI), request the integration of different perspectives and disciplines concerned with society.More recently, novel formats are emerging, in which performative arts and other creative approaches play a more prominent role to trigger and activate novel knowledge types and investigate the power of art to spur societal transformation.Especially, science-society interactions try to produce novel and robust knowledge to cater such transformative processes.We understand science-society interaction in the broadest sense as research activities, partnerships, and collaborations between researchers and diverse societal actors, such as Biosphere