Data from: Biocultural approaches to sustainability: a systematic review of the scientific literature

Current sustainability challenges demand approaches that acknowledge a
plurality of human-nature interactions and worldviews, for which
biocultural approaches are considered appropriate and timely. This
systematic review analyses the application of biocultural approaches to
sustainability in scientific journal articles published between 1990 and
2018 through a mixed methods approach combining qualitative content
analysis and quantitative multivariate methods. The study identifies seven
distinct biocultural lenses, i.e. different ways of understanding and
applying biocultural approaches, which to different degrees consider the
key aspects of sustainability science - inter and transdisciplinarity,
social justice and normativity. The review suggests that biocultural
approaches in sustainability science need to move from describing how
nature and culture are co-produced to co-producing knowledge for
sustainability solutions, and in so doing, better account for questions of
power, gender and transformations, which has been largely neglected thus
far.