The state and relevance of Systems as a field of research and a specific form of scientific inquiry into complex real-world problem situations, can be enhanced significantly by developing and applying more formalized and coherent tools: a new ‘hardware' enabling to build a new ‘hardcore' for...

Introduction -- Historical reflection : a brief genealogy of sustainable development -- Sustainability and climate change -- Sustainability and energy systems -- Sustainability and food systems -- Sustainability as transformation and reflexivity

The concept of innovation is as omnipresent in the media, in politics and in the economy as it is intangible and fuzzy. Focusing on its technological dimension, we find a hybrid interplay of technological and social systems. Accordingly, we observe an ongoing and increasingly complex...