The sustainability crisis entails high levels of complexity, not approachable from linear or reductionist stances. Unveiled from a holistic stance as a multilevel phenomenon characterized by qualitative novelty, emergence pertains to complex self-organizing systems. Emergent properties and behaviors arise only when system parts interact in a wider whole. This article positions emergence for enhancing solution processes to meet sustainability challenges. It proposes the systemic approach as a catalyst for the emergence of wise creative solutions tackling wicked unsustainability problems. This requires observation and entails analyzing open systems altogether and recognizing the impact of navigating across macro- and micro-scales on causal and creative emergence. Sustainable development requires circumventing past conventional practices, in an accelerated way. The emergence phenomenon at work between systems levels, coupled with purposefully structured creative processes, holds the potential for catalyzing sustainable development efforts. Systemic analysis at varying scales is to foster creative emergence aligned with sustainability-oriented innovation.

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系统分析催生的新兴——为可持续发展播种创新

可持续性危机具有高度的复杂性，从线性或还原论的立场来看是无法接近的。从整体立场来看，作为一种以定性新颖性为特征的多层次现象，涌现与复杂的自组织系统有关。只有当系统部分在更广泛的整体中相互作用时，才会出现紧急属性和行为。本文将涌现定位为增强解决方案流程以应对可持续性挑战。它提出了系统性方法，作为解决棘手的不可持续性问题的明智的创造性解决方案出现的催化剂。这需要观察并需要完全分析开放系统，并认识到在宏观和微观尺度上导航对因果和创造性涌现的影响。可持续发展需要规避过去的传统做法，以加速的方式。系统层级之间出现的现象，加上有目的的结构化创造性过程，具有促进可持续发展努力的潜力。不同规模的系统分析是为了促进与可持续性导向创新相一致的创造性涌现。