ABSTRACT
The 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals provide a normative framework to set in motion the ‘transformation of our world’ towards a fairer and more sustainable future. To achieve the goals, processes of fundamental transformation of our societies and economies are necessary. This includes changes in the structural, functional, relational and cognitive aspects of how societies operate leading to more sustainable courses of development. We can distinguish structural, systemic and enabling approaches to sustainability transformation. They reflect different understandings of what transformation entails but are also complementary in that each addresses different aspects of transformation. The complex and multifaceted nature of transformation processes requires a wide perspective that is suitable to capture the wealth of elements that make up sustainability change.
