What is the interplay between identifying and addressing complex environmental sustainability issues and the knowledge and practice networks that facilitate collaborations at local, regional, and international levels and across inter to trans-disciplinary lines? This Current Opinion on Environmental Sustainability Open Issue addresses this question and is focused on how scientist, policy-marker, and practitioner networks and networking have facilitated changes in the way we organize ourselves for knowledge generation and sharing and how this affects the way we think and analyze, and the solutions we propose to complex environmental sustainability problems.

Especially since the 1980s, international research networks, intergovernmental platforms, and local and regional alliances have contributed to shape how scientific knowledge is developed, distributed, and put into practice as public policy and civil society action. Multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary and trans-disciplinary collaborations along with a range of drivers including change in funding models, institutional support and the structure, the rise of the internet, and a variety of web-based interaction mechanisms including the role of social media are vastly transforming how people and groups communicate, interact, and problem solve.

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