Sustainability in the Digital Age [Special Issue Introduction]

The articles in this special section focus on how disruptions whether they be natural or human impact society, technological development, and future outlooks. This section explores the opportunities and challenges of leveraging AI and other digital capabilities to drive the transformative system changes needed to tackle the climate crisis and related global sustainability challenges. The work presented here was initiated well before the pandemic emerged, but the current crisis makes the issues explored in these papers even more poignant for challenges we face in building the world we want.