The Crossovers and Connectivity between Systems Engineering and the Sustainable Development Goals: A Scoping Study

The United Nation’s sustainable development goals (SDGs) are interconnected and indivisible need to be addressed in a systematic holistic way. However, lack of stakeholder perspective, fragmented responses, dearth integration across sectors have long been perceived as the SDGs’ main pitfalls. In recent years, scholars calling address these issues by adopting systems engineering this approach espouses stakeholder-focused position, embraces dynamic mindset, provides variety technical managerial toolkits, which can help untangle complexity interactions inherent global sustainability. Nevertheless, little has done map existing literature, comprehensively review, synthesize research evidence field. Therefore, paper aims conduct scoping study that analyzes extant uncover contributions advancing SDGs. A three-phase methodology integrating natural language processing literature review is used investigate space. We conclude an active catalyst promoting SDGs, potential support more transdisciplinary achieve long-term transformational change disciplines.