Research and Development for Sustainable Development - RD4SD - is a young field of research and is far from being fully established. RD4SD in many ways is itself development in (early) progress and we hope that VSION RD4SD will be able to contribute to its further maturing and recognition.

For historical, conceptual and theoretical background of this new fields of R&D you can find in the following a few more recent contributions for download. Further material are on the homepages of the organisations and networks listed under Links.

• Sustainability Science in Europe, Background Paper prepared for DG Research, Jill Jäger, 2009
  http://ec.europa.eu/research/sd/index_en.cfm?pg=sustainability-science-era
  
  
• Gearing European research towards sustainability - RD4SD Exercise, Luke Georghiou, Jennifer Cassingena Harper, Laurence Esterle, Stefan Kuhlmann. Report for DG Research in preparation of the conference “Sustainable development - a challenge for European research” May 2009
  http://ec.europa.eu/research/sd/index_en.cfm?pg=rd4sd
  
  
• ESDN Quarterly Reports June 2010: “Research & development for sustainable development: How European R&D activities and programmes contribute to SD” by Markus Hametner, André Martinuzzi, Michal Sedlacko, Nisida Gjoksi & Andreas Endl
  http://www.sd-network.eu/?k=quarterly%20reports&report_id=17
  
  
• Earth System Science for Global Sustainability: Grand Challenges, W.V. Reid, D. Chen, L. Goldfarb, H. Hackmann, Y.T. Lee, K. Mokhele, E. Ostrom, K. Raivio, J. Rockström, H.J. Schellnhuber, A. Whyte, Science Vol. 330 12. November 2010, Policy Forum
  http://www.sciencemag.org/content/330/6006.toc#PolicyForum (subscription required).