ABSTRACT
After a long gestation period, two ideas, sustainable development and complexity, matured in the 1990s and moved to the top of political and scientific agendas, stirring multifarious theoretical and methodological discourses on how to better and more effectively deal with pressing contemporary societal problems. The need for integrated, interdisciplinary approaches and policies to holistically address complex, crosscutting, 'wicked' socio-environmental problems and the derivative quest for policy integration to promote sustainable development feature prominently among them.
