Engineering a sustainable world requires to consider various systems that interact with each other. These systems include ecological systems, economical systems, social systems and tech-nical systems. They are loosely coupled, geographically distributed, evolve permanently and generate emergent behavior. As these are characteristics of systems of systems (SoS), we discuss the engi-neering of a sustainable world from a SoS engineering perspective. We studied SoS engineering in context of a research project, which aims at political recommendations and a research roadmap for engineering dynamic SoS. The project included an exhaustive literature review, interviews and work-shops with representatives from industry and academia from different application domains. Based on these results and observations, we will discuss how suitable the current state-of-the-art in SoS engi-neering is in order to engineer sustainability. Sustainability was a major driver for SoS engineering in all domains, but we argue that the current scope of SoS engineering is too limited in order to engineer sustainability. Further, we argue that mastering dynamics in this larger scope is essential to engineer sustainability and that this is accompanied by dynamic adaptation of technological SoS.

翻译：建设可持续世界需要综合考虑相互影响的各类系统，包括生态系统、经济系统、社会系统和技术系统。这些系统具有松散耦合、地理分布广泛、持续演化并涌现突发行为的特征。鉴于这些正是系统之系统（SoS）的特性，本文从SoS工程视角探讨如何建设可持续世界。我们在一个研究项目中开展了SoS工程研究，该项目旨在为动态SoS工程提供政策建议和研究路线图。项目涵盖文献综述、访谈以及来自不同应用领域产业界和学术界的研讨会。基于这些成果与观察，我们将讨论当前SoS工程的最新技术水平在实现可持续性方面的适用性。尽管可持续性已成为各领域推动SoS工程的主要驱动力，但我们认为现有SoS工程的范围过于局限，不足以支撑可持续性设计。此外，我们主张在这一更广阔的范畴内掌握动态性是实现可持续性的关键，而这需要技术性SoS的动态自适应能力。