The concept of leverage points offers great potential to consider how we can intervene in systems to create transformations for sustainability. In this special issue, we draw together a diverse collection of research that engages with this central idea. The papers cover three broad topics: (1) the use of a ‘leverage points lens’ for systems framings and understandings; (2) how individual interventions can be understood and critiqued from a leverage points perspective; and (3) the implications of a leverage points approach for research practice and action. Across these topics, we present the papers, and embed them within current critical debate in sustainability science. In doing so, we produce nine guiding questions to shape the research and practice of leverage points for sustainability transformation. These nine questions introduce conceptual clarity to untangle some of the deeper questions around which system we are engaging with, whose system counts, and whose sustainability we are seeking to create. They further shape how we deliver a leverage points research practice. We intend, therefore, that our guiding questions open up exploration across systems and worldviews, and help us to dance with systems.

杠杆点的概念提供了巨大的潜力，可以考虑我们如何干预系统以创造可持续性的转变。在本期特刊中，我们汇集了一系列与这一中心思想有关的研究。这些论文涵盖了三个主要主题：（1）将“杠杆点数透镜”用于系统构架和理解；（2）如何从杠杆角度看待和批评个人干预措施；（3）杠杆点方法对研究实践和行动的影响。在这些主题中，我们介绍了这些论文，并将它们嵌入到可持续性科学当前的重要辩论中。在此过程中，我们提出了九个指导性问题，以塑造可持续发展转型杠杆点的研究和实践。这九个问题引入了概念上的清晰性，从而使我们更深层次的问题得以解决，这些问题涉及我们正在使用的系统，系统的重要性以及我们寻求创建的系统的可持续性。它们进一步影响了我们如何提供杠杆点研究实践。因此，我们打算将我们的指导性问题开放到整个系统和世界观的探索之中，并帮助我们与系统共舞。