At Resilience 2011, William Clark in a good talk on the success and challenges of sustainability science mentioned that Robert Kates has created a Reader on Sustainability Science and Technology.

The reader is publicly available on the Center for International Development‘s website at Harvard University.  The reader is aimed at for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students of sustainability science.  The reader contains links to almost a 100 articles and book chapters organized around three major domains of sustainability science.

Part 1: an overview of sustainable development;

Part 2: the emerging science and technology of sustainability; and

Part 3: the innovative solutions and grand challenges of moving this knowledge into action