Special feature editorial: The challenging task of managing complexity and transformation continuum for sustainability

Sustainability and sustainable development are challenging primarily because they cut across various spheres of life. There is a common view that sustainability involves various forms of change and demands the capability of managing complexity at the core of the multiple activities, processes and policies interacting to unlock sustainable development. Any meaningful attempt by market or non-market actors, such as government, to ensure sustainability needs to be grounded in capability to manage complexity and change at the intersection of sustainability economic, social and environmental domains.