Futures

Article	Citations
The importance of achieving foundational Sustainable Development Goals in reducing global risk	65
Our hunter-gatherer future: Climate change, agriculture and uncivilization	64
The implications of the Covid-19 pandemic for delivering the Sustainable Development Goals	57
A multi-stakeholder perspective on sustainable healthcare: From 2030 onwards	52
Beyond techno-utopia and its discontents: On the role of utopianism and speculative fiction in shaping alternatives to the smart city imaginary	48
Transdisciplinarity: Synthesis towards a modular approach	40
Extreme events defined—A conceptual discussion applying a complex systems approach	38
Exploring global food system shocks, scenarios and outcomes	36
Coworking in the digital economy: Context, motivations, and outcomes	35
Management challenges for future digitalization of healthcare services	34
Exploring the governance and implementation of sustainable development initiatives through blockchain technology	31
Stakeholders’ perspectives on future electric vehicle charging infrastructure developments	27
Futures literacy and the diversity of the future	26
The adaptiveness of the healthcare system to the fourth industrial revolution: A preliminary analysis	25
Can robots tackle late-life loneliness? Scanning of future opportunities and challenges in assisted living facilities	24
Tangible futures: Combining scenario thinking and personas - A pilot study on urban mobility	24
The role of energy prosumers in the transition of the Finnish energy system towards 100 % renewable energy by 2050	23
Digital futures of small businesses and entrepreneurial opportunity	23
Assessing climate change’s contribution to global catastrophic risk	23
Walking with Energy: Challenging energy invisibility and connecting citizens with energy futures through participatory research	22
Energy descent as a post-carbon transition scenario: How ‘knowledge humility’ reshapes energy futures for post-normal times	22
Science, the endless frontier of regulatory capture	21
Map-makers and navigators of politicised terrain: Expert understandings of epistemological uncertainty in integrated assessment modelling of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage	21
The engagement of home-based businesses in the digital economy	21
Food additives and the future of health: An analysis of the ongoing controversy on titanium dioxide	20

The risk of catastrophic climate change: Future energy implications	20
Scenarios of Good Anthropocenes in southern Africa	20
Unlocking wise digital techno-futures: Contributions from the Degrowth community	19
The transformative potential of artificial intelligence	19
The future in sustainability transitions - Interlinkages between the multi-level perspective and futures studies	19
Embedding care robots into society and practice: Socio-technical considerations	19
Strategy for collectives and common goods	19
The application of artificial intelligence in police interrogations: An analysis addressing the proposed effect AI has on racial and gender bias, cooperation, and false confessions	19
Ethics of quantification or quantification of ethics?	18
The politics of smart expectations: Interrogating the knowledge claims of smart mobility	18
Resilient Power: A home-based electricity generation and storage solution for the medically vulnerable during climate-induced power outages	18
Intergenerational retrospective viewpoint promotes financially sustainable attitude	18
Stakeholders’ preferences for the future of transport in Europe: Participatory evaluation of scenarios combining scenario planning and the multi-actor multi-criteria analysis	17
Identifying technology evolution pathways using topic variation detection based on patent data: A case study of 3D printing	17
Farewell Alternative Futures?	17
Individual futures consciousness: Psychology behind the five-dimensional Futures Consciousness scale	17
Agriculture 4.0: A systematic literature review on the paradigm, technologies and benefits	17
The future of Telemedicine Cabin? The case of the French students’ acceptability	17
An analysis and evaluation of methods currently used to quantify the likelihood of existential hazards	17
Provincialising Futures Literacy: A caution against codification	17
Post-automation	16
Digital technologies, artificial intelligence, and bureaucratic transformation	16
Future tense: Exploring dissonance in young people’s images of the future through design futures methods	16
Anticipation, abduction and the economy of research: The normative stance	16
Framing different energy futures? Comparing Fridays for Future and Extinction Rebellion in Germany	15
The six scenario archetypes framework: A systematic investigation of science fiction films set in the future	15
Ethical issues of human enhancements for space missions to Mars and beyond	15
When two movements collide: Learning from labour and environmental struggles for future Just Transitions	15
Axiological futurism: The systematic study of the future of values	15
Is co-production a ‘good’ concept? Three responses	15
Futures literacy – To belong, participate and act!	15
‘Solving for X?’ Towards a problem-finding framework to ground long-term governance strategies for artificial intelligence	15
The future of unmanned combat aerial vehicles: An analysis using the Three Horizons framework	15
Looking backward to the future: On past-facing approaches to futuring	14
Extending the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) to support local adaptation planning—A climate service for Flensburg, Germany	14
Advanced text-mining for trend analysis of Russia’s Extractive Industries	14
How future frames materialize and consolidate: The energy transition in Denmark	14
Small firms as agents of sustainable change	14
Collaborative speculation: Anticipation, inclusion and designing counterfactual futures for appropriation	14
The smog of ignorance: Knowledge and wisdom in postnormal times	14
Contextualising weak signals: Towards a relational theory of futures knowledge	13
Envisioning the future of health systems: Exploratory insights from European countries	13
Levelling the playing field? Towards a critical-social perspective on digital entrepreneurship	13
Embracing context and complexity to address environmental challenges in the water-energy-food nexus	13
There is no such thing as a short-term issue	12
Future perspectives of sustainable development: An innovative planning approach to inner areas. Experience of an Italian alpine region	12
Matrix purpose in scenario planning: Implications of congruence with scenario project purpose	12
Emerging technologies in the renewable energy sector: A comparison of expert review with a text mining software	12
Existential risk and human extinction: An intellectual history	12
An integrated framework for anticipating the future and dealing with uncertainty in policymaking	12

Moral circle expansion: A promising strategy to impact the far future	12
The future of pharmaceuticals industry within the triad: The role of knowledge spillovers in innovation process	12
The Fragile World Hypothesis: Complexity, Fragility, and Systemic Existential Risk	12
Assessing the options for combatting democratic myopia and safeguarding long-term interests	12
Linking deliberative evaluation with integrated assessment and modelling: A methodological framework and its application to agricultural water management	12
Governing through strategies: How does Finland sustain a future-oriented environmental policy for the long term?	12
Building plausible futures: Scenario-based strategic planning of industrial development of Kyrgyzstan	11
The World Intellectual Property Organization and the sustainable development agenda	11
Home-based work in cities: In search of an appropriate urban planning response	11
Systematic analysis of development in Iran’s tourism market in the form of future study: A new method of strategic planning	11
Was Germany’s Lockdown in Spring 2020 Necessary? How Bad Data Quality Can Turn a Simulation Into a Delusion that Shapes the Future	11
Five key dimensions of post-growth business: Putting the pieces together	11
The future of aging in smart environments: Four scenarios of the United States in 2050	10
The German energy transition and the eroding consensus on ecological modernization: A radical democratic perspective on conflicts over competing justice claims and energy visions	10
Futures literacy through narrative	10
Energy regime reconfiguration and just transitions in the Global South: Lessons for West Africa from Morocco’s comparative experience	10
Societal collapse: A literature review	10
Technology, capital substitution and labor dynamics: global workforce disruption in the 21st century?	9
On the evolution of maritime ports towards the Physical Internet	9
The social construction of futures	9
The future is flexible? Exploring expert visions of energy system decarbonisation	9
Participatory backcasting: Building pathways towards reconciliation?	9
Building individual futures capacity through transformative futures learning	9
The passing of western civilization	9
Critical mineral sustainable supply: Challenges and governance	9
Collaborative imagination: A methodological approach	9
Mastering futures literacy in higher education: An evaluation of learning outcomes and instructional design of a faculty development program	9
Visions of a Martian future	8
Embedding imaginaries- electric vehicles in Sweden's fossil fuel free future	8
Technoscience, policy and the new media. Nexus or vortex?	8
Creating futures images for sustainable cruise ships: Insights on collaborative foresight for sustainability enhancement	8
The Territorial Foresight for the construction of shared visions and mechanisms to minimize social conflicts: The case of Latin America	8
From narratives to numbers: Spatial downscaling and quantification of future water, food & energy security requirements in the Indus basin	8
Shifting the perception of water environment problems by introducing “imaginary future generations”—Evidence from participatory workshop in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam	8
A simulation exercise for incorporating long-term path dependencies in urgent decision-making	8
The sustainable development goals: A universalist promise for the future	8
Prospects of a transition to the knowledge economy in Saudi Arabia and Qatar: A critical reflection through the lens of spatial embeddedness and evolutionary governance theory	8
The FutureS of healthcare	8
A framework for Science Shop processes: Results of a modified Delphi study	8
The evolution of Foresight: What evidence is there in scientific publications?	8
Public acceptance of post-growth: Factors and implications for post-growth strategy	8
Reinvention paths and reinvention paradox: Strategic change in Western Newfoundland communities	8
Unifying weak signals definitions to improve construct understanding	8
Foresight and design fictions meet at a policy lab: An experimentation approach in public sector innovation	8
Extended Peer Communities: Appraising the contributions of tacit knowledges in climate change decision-making	8
A socio-technical lens on security in sustainability transitions: Future expectations for positive and negative security	7
Strategic spatial planning through pragmatic blueprints: Forms and levels of adaptivity in modernist planning of the Dutch IJsselmeerpolders	7
Future space missions and human enhancement: Medical and ethical challenges	7
Future touch in industry: Exploring sociotechnical imaginaries of tactile (tele)robots	7
Back to the future: Old values for a new (more equal) world	7
Anticipating and planning for mine closure in South Africa	7
Integrating uncertainties through participatory approaches: On the burden of cognitive exclusion and infodemic in a post-normal pandemic	7
The future of the forest-based bioeconomy in selected southeast European countries	7
The Driverless Cars Emulsion: Using participatory foresight and constructive conflict to address transport’s wicked problems	7
A common ground? Constructing and exploring scenarios for infrastructure network-of-networks	7
Anticipating human resilience and vulnerability on the path to 2030: What can we learn from COVID-19?	7
Strategy’s futures	7
Envisioning the futures of cultural tourism	7
(De)futuring democracy: Labs, playgrounds, and ateliers as democratic innovations	7
Risks of space colonization	7
The adoption, diffusion & categorical ambiguity trifecta of social robots in e-health – Insights from healthcare professionals	7
Empowering upcoming city developers with futures literacy	6
Unpacking the modelling process via sensitivity auditing	6
The making of Antarctic futures: Participatory game design at the interface between science and policy	6
Better research through more participation? The future of integrated climate change assessments	6
Work/family life by 2040: Between a gig economy and traditional roles	6
Taking power seriously: Towards a power-sensitive approach for transdisciplinary action research	6
A futures perspective of health, climate change and poverty in the United States	6
The challenges of futures literacy	6
Advancing Decision-Visualization Environments—Empirically informed Design Recommendations	6
Collective design anticipation	6
Using foresight to explore the impacts of flooding in Houston on health, poverty, and equity out to 2050	6
Decolonial feminisms and degrowth	6
Just mobility futures: Challenges for e-mobility transitions from a global perspective	6
Deriving new anticipation-based policy instruments for attracting research and development and innovation in global value chains to Europe	6
From gaps to tangles: A relational framework for the future of the theory-practice debate	6
Towards purposeful business schools: Deepening and broadening external engagement	6
Effect of proxy voting for children under the voting age on parental altruism towards future generations	6
Fifteen shadows of socio-cultural AI: A systematic review and future perspectives	6
Strengthening foresight for governance of social-ecological systems: An interdisciplinary perspective	6

Designing future experiences of the everyday: Pointers for methodical expansion of sustainability transitions research	6
Picture the future, play the present: Re-imagining sustainable cities through a large-scale location-based game	6
How networked organisations build capacity for anticipatory governance in South East Asian deltas	6
Five anticipation communities in complex systems sciences	6
Breaking through the epistemic impasse: Ending homelessness with the invention of ‘functional zero’ in the Anglo-American world	5
How to visualise futures studies concepts: Revision of the futures cone	5
Foresight and responsible innovation: Openness and closure in anticipatory heuristics	5
Young people’s situated capacity to imagine a desired post-pandemic future: A qualitative methodology for assessing futures consciousness	5
In search of sectoral foresight methodology: Bridging foresight and sectoral system of innovation and production	5
Assessment in horizon scanning by various stakeholder groups using Osgood’s semantic differential scale – A methodological development	5
Digital swadeshi and 3D printing intellectual property in India: The multi-level perspective, causal layered analysis and backcasting	5
Empowering change for future-making: Developing agency by framing wicked problems through design	5
What life-course research can contribute to futures studies	5
Towards more sustainable agricultural landscapes: Lessons from Northwestern Mexico and the Western Highlands of Guatemala	5
Participatory utopian sketching: A methodological framework for collaborative citizen (re)imagination of urban spatial futures	5
Governing technological zones, making national renewable energy futures	5
Images of the future for a circular economy: The case of Finland	5
Collective scenarios: Speculative improvisations for the Anthropocene	5
Contextual insight as an antecedent to strategic foresight	5
Research is in the air in Valle del Serchio	5
What makes long-term perspectives endure? Lessons from Dutch nature conservation	5
Sensemaking and lens-shaping: Identifying citizen contributions to foresight through comparative topic modelling	5
Education first: What really matters in working for sustainability	5
Estrangement, immersion, and the future: Designing the speculative environments of the virtual reality “Museum of the Future”	5
Types of scenario planning and their effectiveness: A review of reviews	5
Anticipatory study for identifying the key influential factors of the biogas system in Germany contributing to the energy system of 2050	5
Dutch doubts and desires. Exploring citizen opinions on future and technology	5
Futures images of woodchips as an energy source in Finland	5
Bottom-up development of passenger travel demand scenarios in Japan considering heterogeneous actors and reflecting a narrative of future socioeconomic change	5
New frontiers in local government community engagement: Towards transformative place-based futures	5
In search of plan(et) B: Irrational rationality, capitalist realism, and space colonization	4
Future scenarios for the Brazilian electricity sector: PV as a new driving force?	4
Imagining transformation: Change agent narratives of sustainable futures	4
Using digital technologies to deliver scenarios to geographically dispersed stakeholders: Lessons learned from the transportation sector	4
Can individuals caring little about future generations serve as their representatives?	4
Shifting towards non-anthropocentrism: In dialogue with speculative design futures	4
The middle powers roar: Exploring a minilateral solar geoengineering deployment scenario	4
Mind the gap! Backcasting local actors’ climate transition in Hammarby Sjöstad, Stockholm	4
The future of human-artificial intelligence nexus and its environmental costs	4
Paving the pathways towards sustainable future? A critical assessment of STI policy roadmaps as policy instruments for sustainability transitions	4
Constructing practice-oriented futures for sustainable urban food policy in Bangkok	4
The algorithmic workplace and its enactive effect on the future of professions	4
The private sector to the rescue? Analysis of a hypothetical scenario of SG deployment	4
Contested notions of energy justice and energy futures in struggles over tar sands development in British Columbia, Canada	4
Conducting hidden populations research: A reflective case study on researching the biohacking community	4
Extending the shared socioeconomic pathways for adaptation planning of blue tourism	4
A shared socio-economic pathway based framework for characterising future emissions of chemicals to the natural environment	4
A scenario of solar geoengineering governance: Vulnerable states demand, and act	4
Faith in the future: On a mission to integrate sustainability into management theory and practice	4
Collaborative design prototyping in transdisciplinary research: An approach to heterogeneity and unknowns	4
Entrepreneurial foresight: Discovery of future opportunities	4
Engagements with uncertain futures – Analysing survivalist preparedness	4
Trends as Future Prompts in the Anticipatory Design Practice	4
Why space exploitation may provide sustainable development: Climate ethics and the human future as a multi-planetary species	4
Delphi-based future scenarios: A bibliometric analysis of climate change case studies	4
Accumulating evidence using crowdsourcing and machine learning: A living bibliography about existential risk and global catastrophic risk	4
An outline of future-oriented dialectics: Conceptualising dialectical positions, trajectories and processes in the context of futures research	4
Agents for sustainable futures? The (unfulfilled) promise of sustainability at leading business schools	4
Is an ‘other’ city possible? Using feminist utopias in creating a more inclusive vision of the future city	4
Can energy descent be justified by critiquing 100% renewable energy scenarios? A reply to Floyd et al.	4
Designing early warning systems for detecting systemic risk: A case study and discussion	4
Whose future is it anyway? Struggles for just energy futures	4
Applying pedagogical theories to understand learning in participatory scenario planning	4
Governance modes and epistemologies of future-oriented vulnerability assessments: Example of a mixed-methods approach	3
Plausibility designs, or a probabilistic and predictive take on scenario effectiveness	3
Digital futures of small businesses and entrepreneurial opportunity	3
Coping with uncertainty: Exploring the foresight actions’ role in supporting growth-orientation among Finnish dairy farmers	3
Alternative futures for North Korea economy: From the North Korean perspectives	3
Is happiness possible in a degrowth society?	3
Targeting net climate benefits by wood utilization in Finland: Participatory backcasting combined with quantitative scenario exploration	3
“Just the freedom to get good at things and stuff like that”: Why spending less time at work would be good for individual, social and environmental wellbeing	3
Applying foresight to policy agenda-setting: A successful case in South Korea	3
International risk of food insecurity and mass mortality in a runaway global warming scenario	3
Futures of the social metabolism: Degrowth, circular economy and the value of waste	3
Inner drives: Is the future of marketing communications more sustainable when using backcasting?	3
Shaping future perspectives in policy advice under deep, long-term uncertainty. The case of the Dutch Delta Committee	3
Deepening futures methods to face the civilisational crisis	3
The critical futurist: Richard Slaughter’s foresight practice	3
Solar geoengineering governance: Insights from a scenario exercise	3
Young adults face the future of the United States: Perceptions of its promise, perils, and possibilities	3
Medicine of the future: How and who is going to treat us?	3
Crafting a future of knowledge	3
Assessing futures literacy as an academic competence for the deployment of foresight competencies	3
Getting past Cassandra: 21 C Slaughter	3
Shitty food-based world-making: Recasting human|microbiome relationships beyond shame and taboo	3
Strategy for the long term: Pressures, counter-pressures and mechanisms in governance	3
Post-growth policies for the future of just transitions in an era of uncertainty	3
Is Covid-19 a dread risk? The death toll of the pandemic year 2020 in long-term and transnational perspective	3
Solar geoengineering: Scenarios of future governance challenges	3
The problem of the present in West Africa: Introducing a conceptual framework	3
Futures of autonomous flight: Using a collaborative storytelling game to assess anticipatory assumptions	3
Approaches to disruptive change: The contribution of complexity science to futures studies	3
The future of compulsory schooling: Participant developed scenarios from a modified Delphi survey	3
Cultural story models in making sense of a desired post-corona world	3
Climate-resilient and regenerative futures for Latin America and the Caribbean	3
Future thinking on power planning: A balanced model of regions, seasons and environment with a case of Taiwan	3
An autoethnography about writing an eco-fiction on the Flemish circular economy	3
Visioning for cultural industries: CLA inspired scenario method	3
Barriers to developing futures literacy in organisations	3
The technological ‘exposure’ of populations; characterisation and future reduction	3
Approaches to anticipatory governance in West Africa: How conceptions of the future have implications for climate action in the present	3
Reflections on a hypothetical decentralized grassroots deployment solar geoengineering scenario	3
The normative significance of future moral revolutions	3
Contested net-zero target setting in a transitioning country: The case of South Korea	3
From agent to action: The use of ethnographic social simulation for crime research	3
The future of biotechnology crime: A parallel Delphi study with non-traditional experts	3
New spaces for healthcare futures studies: Connecting existing theory to deeper participatory practice	3
Branded activism: Navigating the tension between culture and market in social media	3
H.G Wells, earthly and post-terrestrial futures	3
Securitising the future: Dystopian migration discourses in Poland and the Czech Republic	3
Rethinking the brain drain: A framework to analyze the future behavior of complex socio-economic systems	2
The creation of dystopias as an alternative for imagining and materializing a university of the future	2
Beyond archetypes: Advancing the knowledge of narrative fiction in future scenarios	2
Pre-foresight integrative methodology for STI policy: Increasing coherence and impact	2
Acceptability of radical consumption policies – Utilising futures consciousness to understand elite preferences	2
Abrupt climate change: Exploring the implications of a wild card	2
Towards a bifurcated future in the US-China relationship: What is in it for the EU?	2
Weaving the links: Traditional knowledge into modern science	2
Skinny as a Bird: Design fiction as a vehicle for reflecting on food futures	2
Narratives of sustainability in digital media: An observatory for digital narratives	2
Further education college leaders: Securing the sector’s future	2
Disentangling strategic foresight? A critical analysis of the term building on the pioneering work of Richard Slaughter	2
Emergentist education and the opportunities of radical futurity	2
Combining research methods in policy and governance: taking account of bricolage and discerning limits of modelling and simulation	2
A global discussion about our possible futures during the 2021 World Future Day	2
Foregrounding citizen imaginaries: Exploring just energy futures through a citizens' assembly in Lebanon	2
Narratives of change: Strategies for inclusivity in shaping socio-technical future visions	2
Strategic openings: On the productivity of blended long-term perspectives in spatial strategy. A Dutch case study	2
Updating scenarios: A multi-layer framework for structurally incorporating new information and uncertainties into scenarios	2
Humanity extinction by asteroid impact	2
Emerging from the global syndemic crucible: Finding belonging in a post corona future	2
Communication in futures studies: A discursive analysis of the literature	2
Futures for Findhorn: Exploring challenges for achieving net zero in an ecological intentional community	2
Probability and desirability of future developments – Results of a large-scale Argumentative Delphi in support of Horizon Europe preparation	2
National identity and the future of branding the arts	2
Carrying fire: A Way forward for integral foresight	2
Covid-19 and the politics of hope: A comparative analysis of Greek and Ecuadorian letters from a desired post-pandemic future	2
Systemic sustainability effects of contemporary digitalization: A scoping review and research agenda	2
Assessing the influence of individual creativity, perceptions of group decision-making and structured techniques on the quality of scenario planning	2
Disruptive Technologies for e-Diasporas: Blockchain, DAOs, Data Cooperatives, Metaverse, and ChatGPT	2
Systemic knowledge integration in transdisciplinary and sustainability transformation research	2
Guiding foresight into the future	2
A quantitative and qualitative approach on the evaluation of technological pathways: A comparative national-scale Delphi study	2
Futures literacy for research impact in universities	2
Understanding feminist anticipation through ‘back-talk’: 3 narratives of willful, deviant, and care-full co-design practices	2

Science – Post-normal perspectives	2
Bricolage and informal businesses: Young entrepreneurs in the mobile telephony sector in Accra, Ghana	2
Is Generation Z ready to fly into the space? The future of tourism is coming	2
Energy futures as societal futures: Co-evolutionary scenarios linking futures of society and decarbonized energy systems in Switzerland 2050	2
Chronotopic imaginaries: A narrative approach to the letters from the post-pandemic future	2
Striking the balance: Sustainability and institutional transitions in the European Environment Agency	2
Techno Futurist, sustained inequalities and Eco-utopia: Speculative imaginaries of Business Education in 2050	2
Bringing advanced technology to strategic decision-making: The Decision Intelligence/Data Science (DI/DS) Integration framework	2
On the icy slopes of expertise: How a Cold War-era solution to the problem of expert opinion in science might transform the epistemology of simulation	2
Emerging sociotechnical imaginaries – How the smart home is legitimized in visions from industry, users in homes and policymakers in Germany	2
Future orientation is associated with less lockdown rule breaking, even during large illegal gatherings	2
A proposed framework for inclusive business schools	2
Pathways theatre: Using speculative and collaborative improvisation for transformative engagement	2
Millennial utopians and prepper subcultures: Contemporary utopianism on the left and right	2