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：构建可持续世界需要考虑各种相互作用的系统，包括生态系统、经济系统、社会系统和技术系统。这些系统松散耦合、地理分布广泛、持续演化并产生涌现行为。鉴于这些是系统之系统（SoS）的特征，我们从SoS工程视角探讨可持续世界的构建。我们在一项研究项目中研究了SoS工程，该项目旨在为工程化动态SoS提供政策建议和研究路线图。项目包括详尽的文献综述、与不同应用领域产业界和学术界代表的访谈及研讨会。基于这些结果和观察，我们探讨了当前SoS工程技术的成熟度是否足以支撑可持续性工程。可持续性是所有领域SoS工程的主要驱动力，但我们认为当前SoS工程的范畴在可持续性工程方面过于局限。此外，我们认为在此更广泛范畴内掌握动态性对实现可持续性工程至关重要，而这需要伴随技术SoS的动态自适应。