Ricaud L. auteur aut IRD Thibon Maxime auteur aut IRD Marseault L. auteur aut IRD Chotte Jean-Luc auteur aut IRD text journalArticle eng text/pdf reformatted digital access Humanity is facing global and local sustainability challenges that call for the involvement of a wide range of expertise drawn from academia, civil society, the private sector, as well as funding and development agencies. The challenge will be to leverage this diversity to nurture decision making. To make such discussions successful we propose a pattern language approach. It can be used as a practical step-by-step process to guide interdisciplinary collaboration between researchers and to facilitate transdisciplinary interactions between the academic and nonacademic worlds. The patterns are documented and freely accessible online in the Sustainable Science Pattern database. specialized knowledge system pattern languages sustainability science Sustainable Development Goals value creating systems wicked problem 021 124 122 30 4 237-242 2021 0940-5550 https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010083889 10.14512/gaia.30.4.6 0940-5550 [F B010083889] https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010083889 https://horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/pleins_textes/2022-02/010083889.pdf IRD - Base Horizon / Pleins textes 2022-02-04 2022-02-04 fdi:010083889 fre