Engaging appropriately with sustainability transformations requires adopting an integral perspective on related system dynamics. This view underpins the sustainable development goals. Informing policy and decision making from a consistently integral perspective, however, remains a key challenge. To some extent, the leverage points approach has proved useful in doing so in terms of providing an encompassing view on related options for intervening in systems. There are, however, a number of points in which it needs to be complemented by other approaches to better address the need for an integral perspective on sustainability transformations as well as to better address the need for being able to articulate normative perspectives on transformation processes and outcomes. We argue that the theory of modal aspects is a good candidate for doing so. To illustrate its potential, we explore its characteristics, we illustrate its application opportunities in the analysis of sustainability in food systems transitions, we systematically compare leverage points and modal aspects, and close with an exploration of ways in which the leverage points approach and theory of modal aspects can be considered complementary perspectives. The authors conclude that the theory of modal aspects offers opportunities for enriching both the leverage points approach and wider approaches in sustainability transformations by offering a consistently integral perspective across scale levels, and by offering a number of ways of engaging with normativity in related processes without resorting to fixed political views. This articulates its potential for playing a useful role in related multi-stakeholder processes and sustainability governance.

适当参与可持续发展转型，需要对相关系统动力学采取整体观点。这种观点奠定了可持续发展目标的基础。但是，从始终如一的整体观点出发，为政策和决策提供信息仍然是一项关键挑战。在某种程度上，事实证明杠杆点方法在提供干预系统相关选项的全面观点方面很有用。但是，在很多方面，还需要其他方法加以补充，以更好地满足对可持续性转型的整体观点的需求，以及更好地满足对转型过程和变革过程提出规范性观点的需求。结果。我们认为模态方面的理论是一个很好的选择。为了说明其潜力，我们探索其特征，说明其在食品系统转型可持续性分析中的应用机会，我们系统地比较杠杆点和模式方面，并探索杠杆点方法和理论的方法。情态方面可以被认为是互补的观点。作者得出的结论是，模态方面的理论提供了机会，可以通过在各个规模水平上提供一致的整体观点，并通过在不采取任何措施的情况下在相关过程中参与规范性的方式，来丰富可持续发展转型中的杠杆点方法和更广泛的方法固定的政治观点。