CC BY 4.0Walz, RainerRainerWalzWilhelm, RalphRalphWilhelm2022-03-0624.8.20192019https://publica.fraunhofer.de/handle/publica/25856510.14512/gaia.28.S1.2Reaching the Sustainable Development Goals requires a transformation to a sustainable economy. This special issue presents new scientific results produced within projects of the funding measure Sustainable Economy, which is part of the Social-Ecological Research (SOEF) funding priority of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. The articles focus on new lines of inquiry with regard to impacts, governance approaches, and sector-specific conditions and options for a transformation to a sustainable economy.ensocial-ecological researchsustainable economysustainable production and consumption transformationtransition303001600journal article