Social Systems of Systems Thinking to Improve Decision-Making Processes Toward the Sustainable Transition

In this reflective paper, the authors present how systems thinking approaches could mitigate the broad challenges related to the decision-making process within the climate crisis we observe a few major roles: experts, who analyze and propose plans and actions; decision-makers, for instance, politicians with power; and implementers, who carry out the actions. How do these roles relate and interact? The paper concludes that there is a need for transdisciplinary competence. Systems thinking at societal level, which inherently is a rather complex systems of systems, is proposed to fulfill this need. Research is required to address this need for transdisciplinary competence.