This paper reviews the latest research on scenarios including the processes and products
for socio-environmental systems (SES) analysis, modeling and decision making. A group of …

This review article opens discussion on theories in futures studies by analyzing survey
results from Finland Futures Research Centre and using the results as an entry point to …

Scenarios are the primary tool for examining how current decisions shape the future, but the
future is affected as much by out-of-ordinary extremes as by generally expected trends …

The policy feedback literature was initially concerned with explaining how positive feedback
could lead to self-reinforcing policy trajectories. More recently, policy scholars have devoted …

Sustainable development is a long-term endeavour involving deep uncertainty and requiring
transformative change at multiple scales. To navigate such a grand challenge, new …

Policymakers need to make policies for an uncertain future, and policy analysts assist
policymakers in choosing preferred courses of action. Despite a longstanding recognition …

Futures studies is a multidisciplinary field that integrates disciplinary information through
discussion. This article integrates information from life-course research with futures studies …

Adaptive planning, as opposed to the conventional 'predict-and-act'approach, has emerged
as a paradigm to increase the resilience of our built environment and infrastructure systems …

Purpose The paper aims to present an integrated foresight framework and method to
support decision-makers who are confronted with today's complex and rapidly changing …

Foresight analysis has been widely recommended as input for public policies in recent
years; however, in Latin America, studies regarding its benefits, difficulties, and effects have …