The Gunnerus Sustainability Award is an international research award, conferred every other year by the

Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters The Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters ( da, Det Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskab, DKNVS) is a Norwegian learned society based in Trondheim. It was founded in 1760 and is Norway's oldest scientific and scholarly institution. The s ...

(DKNVS) and the

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(NTNU). Its full name is The Gunnerus Award in Sustainability Science conferred by the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. The prize is presented to a scholar who has made outstanding contribution to sustainable science within the fields of

natural science Natural science is one of the branches of science concerned with the description, understanding and prediction of natural phenomena, based on empirical evidence from observation and experimentation. Mechanisms such as peer review and repeatab ...

social science Social science is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of societies and the relationships among individuals within those societies. The term was formerly used to refer to the field of sociology, the original "science of soc ...

humanities Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture. In the Renaissance, the term contrasted with divinity and referred to what is now called classics, the main area of secular study in universities at the t ...

, or technological sciences, either through

interdisciplinary work Interdisciplinarity or interdisciplinary studies involves the combination of multiple academic disciplines into one activity (e.g., a research project). It draws knowledge from several other fields like sociology, anthropology, psychology, ec ...

or through work within one of these fields. The Gunnerus Sustainability Science Award is the first major international prize for outstanding scientific work that promotes sustainable development globally. It is named after the scientist and bishop

Johan Ernst Gunnerus Johan Ernst Gunnerus (26 February 1718 – 25 September 1773) was a Norway, Norwegian bishop and botanist. Gunnerus was born at Oslo, Christiania. He was bishop of the Diocese of Nidaros from 1758 until his death and also a professor of theology ...

(1718–1773), who was one of the founders of DKNVS, and Norway's first internationally acclaimed naturalist. The prize was established in 2012, and was then awarded to the Indian-American scientist Kamaljit S. Bawa for his pioneering research on population biology in rainforest areas.The Hindu (17 February 2012) The award was not conferred in the years 2013–2016, but in 2017 it was reestablished as a cooperation between DKNVS and NTNU. The 2017 award will be handed out at the NTNU Sustainability Science Conference in October 2017. The laureates receive a cash award of 1,000,000

Norwegian krone The krone (, abbreviation: kr (also NKr for distinction); code: NOK), plural ''kroner'', is currency of the Kingdom of Norway (including Svalbard). Traditionally known as the Norwegian crown in English. It is nominally subdivided into 100 ''� ...

r, plus a gold medal from DKNVS and a diploma. __NOTOC__

Laureates

* 2012 Kamaljit S. Bawa * 2017 Carl Folke. * 2019

Sandra Díaz (ecologist) Sandra Myrna Díaz ForMemRS is an Argentine ecologist and professor of ecology at the National University of Córdoba. She studies the functional traits of plants and investigates how plants impact the ecosystem. Díaz is a senior member of ...

*2021 Jianguo «Jack» Liu (ecologist), MSU–CSIS

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Presentation of the cooperation between NTNU and DKNVS on the award, from NTNU's rector to the board (2016) (Norwegian)

Normannsen, Sølvi Waterloo (17 February 2012) «Indisk biolog får den nye Gunnerusprisen». In: ''Universitetsavisa'' (Norwegian)

Special corresponent (17 February 2012) «Kamal Bawa gets first Gunnerus award for sustainability». In: ''The Hindu''

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NTNU's information on the award

Statutes for the award
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Laureates

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