“…5 and 7 ). Overall, the selected case studies confirm the experts´ general belief that SD research can benefit from real-time analysis and automated response by evaluating, managing, and modelling sustainability impacts on the earth systems (Bienvenido-Huertas et al, 2020 ; Steffen et al, 2020 ; Wiedmann et al, 2020 ), developing smart solutions for SD (Alreshidi, 2019 ; Bircanoğlu et al, 2018 ; Kościelniak et al, 2019 ), or even contributing to predicting natural disasters (Al Qundus et al, 2020 ; Alizadeh & Nikoo, 2018 ; Goralski & Tan, 2020 ; Sublime & Kalinicheva, 2019 ). Moreover, adopting AI and digitalisation could increase several stakeholders´ engagement (Fuso Nerini et al, 2018 ), such as the society (Irving & Hoffman, 2014 ; Mrówczyńska et al, 2019 ), supporting the scientific community to overcome the complexity of SD research (Gue et al, 2020 ; Sebestyén et al, 2020 ) or generating valuable information for policy-making (Gao et al, 2019 ; How et al, 2020 ; Jean et al, 2016 ; Mrówczyńska et al, 2019 ; Pirouz et al, 2020 ).…”