Futures

Papers
(The median citation count of Futures is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Tomorrow let’s all be pangolins! Western affirmation of a relational ontology in thinking and acting for a multi-species future138
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Hoping for community in a technologically decelerated world - A critical utopian approach90
The future vision(s) of AI health in the Nordics: Comparing the national AI strategies79
Climate-resilient and regenerative futures for Latin America and the Caribbean75
Prefigurative pedagogies: Learning to build alternative futures in student housing co-operatives69
Leveraging value-based pathways for Indigenous food security through participatory scenario planning: A case study from St. Paul Island, Alaska, USA68
A greener future cannot be bought: On the paradoxes of practising contemporary consumption-driven sustainability58
Editorial: Reflections on post-normal science and ethics53
‘Will the world never be the same?’ Everyday imaginaries of post-corona futures48
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How does research and development (R&D) strategy shift by adopting imaginary future generations? – Insights from future design practice in a water engineering company44
After flight. Visions from London Heathrow42
Why skyscrapers after Covid-19?42
Anticipating human resilience and vulnerability on the path to 2030: What can we learn from COVID-19?39
Narratives of sustainability in digital media: An observatory for digital narratives39
How universities study the future: A critical view39
Co-experiential futuring: Where speculative design and arts meet futures studies38
Too much hope in us? A qualitative inquiry into the deficit of ecological reflexivity in UN sustainability discourses38
Between continuous presents and disruptive futures: Identifying the ideological backbones of global environmental scenarios37
Empowering change for future-making: Developing agency by framing wicked problems through design35
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Delphi-based future scenarios: A bibliometric analysis of climate change case studies33
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The value produced in lending strategic problems as live cases in futures education29
Exploring visions and vision clusters of sustainable food packaging - The case of Finland29
Caring for technologies, caring for Country28
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Designing value propositions for sustainability: The use of speculative storytelling to explore future mobility28
Implementing catchment-wide flood risk management plans: futures and justice conflicts27
Profits over people: The dangers of privatizing space colonization25
Sustainability and futures, moving beyond "The Natural" and "The Artificial"24
The interplay of competencies and governance settings in dealing with uncertainty: A comparison of mobility as a service in the Netherlands and Australia24
The transformative potential of artificial intelligence24
Policy design and decision criteria for sustainable water supply from the perspective of “imaginary future generations” - A deliberation experiment with policymakers in a municipality, Japan24
The thickening of futures23
Provocation: A proactive strategy for anticipation and innovation23
International risk of food insecurity and mass mortality in a runaway global warming scenario23
Navigating the transition: Unraveling the EU's different imaginaries for a just future23
Was Germany’s Lockdown in Spring 2020 Necessary? How Bad Data Quality Can Turn a Simulation Into a Delusion that Shapes the Future23
From the universal to the plural: Imagining, building up and obliterating alternative futures22
What futures for the Apennines? The anthropo-systemic value of mountainous inner areas22
Blueprint for forever: Securing human far futures with ectogenesis21
Foregrounding citizen imaginaries: Exploring just energy futures through a citizens' assembly in Lebanon21
Forms of participatory futuring for urban sustainability: A systematic review21
When opposites attract—Impact of cultural distance and polarised success in the future of economic unions20
Rethinking the brain drain: A framework to analyze the future behavior of complex socio-economic systems20
The nutshell kings: Why is human space settlement controversial in the first place?20
The end of selection as a driver of human evolution20
Dynamic Living Space: Toward a society where people can live anywhere in 205020
Crisis of imagination: Integrating degrowth pedagogy for sustainability innovation in business schools19
Regimes of futurity: Progress, catastrophe, and historicity in the Anthropocene19
From “snowflake generation” to “agents of social change”: Recognizing the voice of Spanish young people in the post-pandemic era19
'Ancestral future': On consumption, ethics and the Anthropocene18
“When values are in dispute”: Ethics dialogues to go beyond ethics frameworks?18
Cognitive mechanisms in foresight: A bridge between psychology and futures studies18
Citizen science and Post-Normal Science’s extended peer community: Identifying overlaps by mapping typologies18
Legitimacy and justifiability of non-state geoengineering17
Developing shared understanding through online interdisciplinary collaboration: Reflections from a research project on better integration of health outcomes in future urban development practice17
Cross-country comparative analysis and case study of institutions for future generations17
Flying cars and boring companies: Interrogating the feasibility of the transport futures of tech executives17
A shared socio-economic pathway based framework for characterising future emissions of chemicals to the natural environment17
What’s next in the healthcare system? The contribution of digital innovation in achieving patient-centricity17
Dare to imagine. Explorative scenarios for re-shaping human-nature relationships in an inner periphery in the Italian Apennines17
What scenario-building characteristics should be used in GenAI prompting?17
Augmented futures? Scenarios and implications of augmented reality use in public spaces16
The future of teaching and learning in the context of emerging artificial intelligence technologies16
The social imaginaries on governance through data: Q-methodological analysis of data professionals' views in the field of mobility16
Coworking in the digital economy: Context, motivations, and outcomes16
Types of scenario planning and their effectiveness: A review of reviews16
Radically hopeful visions: Futuring for institutional anti-racism work16
Shaping circular futures: The role of future-making practices in the transition to circular food systems16
Navigating urban futures: Exploring NbS upscaling discourses, practices, and relations in reimagining human-nature relationships16
Peace and reparations in legal drug markets in Colombia16
Science – Post-normal perspectives15
Expressions of untruth, suppressions of truth. A 21st century reintroduction to “Simulation and Dissimulation”15
Extending the shared socioeconomic pathways for adaptation planning of blue tourism15
Anticipating emerging medical technologies: The start of an international horizon scanning tool for medical devices15
”Your research or my tinkering won’t help”: On (the lack of) Climate Adaptation Imaginaries in the Swedish Arctic15
Participatory modeling of past, current and future groundwater governance: An experiment in Aousja Ghar El Melh, Tunisia15
From Gen Z to Boomers: Motivational Drivers Shaping Industry 5.0 and the Future of Work15
Chronotopic imaginaries: A narrative approach to the letters from the post-pandemic future15
From complexity to clarity: Eden3's novel perspective on limits to growth15
Unveiling the plurality of visions for the ecological transition in Europe15
Understanding the complexities of Building-Integrated Agriculture. Can food shape the future built environment?15
From profit maximization to social welfare maximization: Reclaiming the purpose of American business education15
Why space exploitation may provide sustainable development: Climate ethics and the human future as a multi-planetary species14
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Present-oriented reconciliation and reparative futures in the making – The case of Rodeemos el Diálogo in Colombia14
A meta-network analysis of methodological specifications for system dynamics modelling application in agricultural food systems14
Towards achieving net zero by 2050 in the UK – Stakeholder perspectives in integrated urban planning14
Beyond the ‘Anthropocene’ impasse: The Colonial past and dissenting futures in the era of climate crisis14
Framework for understanding quantum computing use cases from a multidisciplinary perspective and future research directions14
Urban futures through young eyes: Concept mapping youth visions of tomorrow’s cities14
Enhancing the horizon scanning utility of futures-oriented systematic and scoping reviews14
Guiding visions of corporate smart city innovators: Identifying opportunities for participatory futuring13
Future of food: A technology-centered path towards sustainable production in 210013
Ballet not for everyone: A reply to Szocik13
Urban informality and users-led social innovation: Challenges and opportunities for the future human centred city13
“If education is the key, then school is the lock”: Reparative futures thinking beyond the modern school13
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Exploring intercultural perspectives of migration futures in a super-diverse city through intercultural participatory futures workshops: The case of Istanbul13
Reimagining climate change futures: A review of arts-based education programs13
Gender-responsive disaster risk reduction strategy at the community level: A qualitative approach to analyze coastal communities in Bangladesh13
Planning for a future free from rebound effects12
Creativity: The flawed forge of tomorrows12
Developments and challenges of foresight evaluation: Review of the past 30 years of research12
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Post-COVID-19 scenarios: A method for moments of crisis12
The future of unmanned combat aerial vehicles: An analysis using the Three Horizons framework12
Climate perplexity: Rural changemakers facing the anthropocene12
Reparative futures11
Realizing 2050 Net-zero in South Korea: From adaptive reduction to proactive response11
Constructing practice-oriented futures for sustainable urban food policy in Bangkok11
Techno Futurist, sustained inequalities and Eco-utopia: Speculative imaginaries of Business Education in 205011
Anticipating the work to be done11
Hopes over fears: Can democratic deliberation increase positive emotions concerning the future?11
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Post-crises (new) normality. Across social practices and speculative fictions11
The future of work of academics in the age of Artificial Intelligence: State-of-the-art and a research roadmap11
Working deliberat(iv)ely with(in) wicked problems: The existential, epistemological and ethical nexus of imperfect knowledge11
Learning Futures Consciousness: An integrative review11
Time for transition – Temporal structures in energy governance in contemporary Poland11
Benefits or concerns of AI: A multistakeholder responsibility10
Virtual flying carpets and digital disaster rooms: Towards a critical analysis of immersive speculative environments in Museums of the Future10
Toward resilient urban environments: Transition pathways in nature-based solutions10
Future use of natural gas under tightening climate targets10
Parallel futures? Indigenous resurgence and the haunting of the settler10
Measuring the future: The youth HDI in Spain10
AI alignment: Assessing the global impact of recommender systems10
Johan Galtung: Reflexivity, creativity, and imagination10
Is there such a thing as a capitalist eschatology?10
Unconditional basic income and a degrowth transition: Adding empirical rigour to radical visions10
Postnormal Prometheus: How to anticipate and navigate postnormal times10
Exploring urban novel ecosystems: Understandings, insights and recommendations for future research and practice10
A futurology of the sustainable development process of Hormozgan Province, Iran10
Is China evolving a new model for civilization?10
Artificial intelligence in the judiciary: A critical view10
MBA futures: Images from Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) signatories during the COVID-19 pandemic10
Imagining carbon-neutral futures: Comprehensive narratives through citizen participation10
Do internal foresight activities add value to decision-making? Insights from an empirical investigation10
Is co-production a ‘good’ concept? Three responses10
Pleasure addiction via brain-manipulating technologies as a possible contributor to civilizational decline9
Everyday laboratories: Collective speculation and energy futures9
Foresight in natural resource management: A case study in Australia9
Studying long-term storage as material visions of the future9
The long cycle perspective on the emerging bio age9
Exploring futures for the science of global risk9
Displaced futures or futures in displacement? Anticipations around the proposed High Grand Falls Dam in Kenya9
Picture the future, play the present: Re-imagining sustainable cities through a large-scale location-based game9
Teaching futures thinking literacy and futures studies in schools9
Futures for the uncommitted? Translating net-zero to pension savers9
Coping with uncertainty: Exploring the foresight actions’ role in supporting growth-orientation among Finnish dairy farmers9
On the evolution of maritime ports towards the Physical Internet9
Sharpening anticipatory design senses for sustainable ‘scentory’ futures9
Envisioning ecopolitical futures: Reading climate fiction as political theory9
The human-AI dyad: Navigating the new frontier of entrepreneurial discourse9
The dysgenics objection to longtermism9
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Foresight and responsible innovation: Openness and closure in anticipatory heuristics9
Institutionalisation of participative and collaborative governance: Case studies of Lithuania 2030 and Finland 20309
Influence of social factors and environmental behaviour in the knowledge and opinion about circular economy9
Reparative futures in a thick, virtuous present9
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The FutureS of healthcare9
Re-thinking the role of exploratory scenarios for adaptive policymaking: An application for land use and transport planning9
Making heterogeneous infrastructure futures in and beyond the global south9
Just mobility futures: Challenges for e-mobility transitions from a global perspective9
Manufacturing ignorance or dealing with complexity? Adaptation politics and the making of river futures in Colombia9
Cultural story models in making sense of a desired post-corona world8
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Shaping the future: A conceptual review of sociotechnical imaginaries8
Securitising the future: Dystopian migration discourses in Poland and the Czech Republic8
Envisioning inclusive futures: Organizational alternatives beyond the business case approach in the spectrum of utopia and dystopia8
Young people’s situated capacity to imagine a desired post-pandemic future: A qualitative methodology for assessing futures consciousness8
COVID futures: Social imaginaries of post-pandemic lives in Australia8
Plausibility in models and fiction: What integrated assessment modellers can learn from an interaction with climate fiction8
Home-based work in cities: In search of an appropriate urban planning response8
Integrating culture in future speculation: Speculating Chinese wedding futures8
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Exploring the research dynamics of futures studies: An analysis of six top journals8
Contested notions of energy justice and energy futures in struggles over tar sands development in British Columbia, Canada8
Emerging from the global syndemic crucible: Finding belonging in a post corona future8
“What have future generations ever done for us?” Future expectations and present dispositions for social-ecological transformations8
Life in the shadows: Young people’s experiences of climate change futures8
The use of foresight to anticipate and prioritise innovation system failures: The case of machine learning in broadcasting in South Korea8
Framing artistic practices through new materialism to ensure multispecies futuring in the built environment7
The hard work of reparative futures: Exploring the potential of creative and convivial practices in post-conflict Uganda7
A cybernetic participatory approach for policy system of systems mapping: Case study of inclusive economies7
Metamodern futures: Prescriptions for metamodern foresight7
Feminist urban futures: Envisioning the future of Ukrainian cities through the lens of the displaced community in Valencia (Spain)7
Disruptive technologies and future societies: Perspectives and forecasts based on Q-methodology7
Dealing with complex and uncertain futures: Glimpses from transdisciplinary water research7
Exploring trends and topics in hybrid intelligence using keyword co-occurrence networks and topic modelling7
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Understanding games as a site of utopian resonance7
Futures in the present: Unraveling foreclosing and pre-opening desired futures in the local environment with a Bourdieusian perspective7
Engaging futures: Scenario visualisation for sustainable urban food sharing7
An autoethnography about writing an eco-fiction on the Flemish circular economy7
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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 simulation7
The interaction between justice and anticipation: Four mechanisms of reproducing injustice7
The ethical motivation for post-normal science7
How to anchor design thinking in the future: Empirical evidence on the usage of strategic foresight in design thinking projects7
Who wants a reparative future? Social mobility beliefs, and young South African’s narrative positioning within the historic moral community7
Brain fingerprinting: A promising future application for predicting mental illness7
Zoöp Futures: Towards an organisational framework for ecological cooperation between humans and more-than-humans6
The circular economy futures in the making: Transformativity and object ontologies in food waste practices in Finnish households, supermarkets and biogas plants6
Futuring an ‘Inclusive Knowledge Futures’ framework beyond IR theories6
Personal and collective future thought in times of uncertainty6
Foresight in action: A longitudinal study based on a 25-year journey in the world of policy-oriented foresight6
Energy regime reconfiguration and just transitions in the Global South: Lessons for West Africa from Morocco’s comparative experience6
Corrigendum to “The future vision(s) of AI health in the nordics: Comparing the national AI strategies” [Futures 149 (2023) 103154]6
Bringing the future back to the present: The role of prefiguration in European climate justice activism6
Societal collapse: A literature review6
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A future with no individual ownership is not a happy one: Property theory shows why6
A future EU overall strategy for agriculture and forest genetic resources management: Finding consensus through policymakers’ participation6
Bricolage and informal businesses: Young entrepreneurs in the mobile telephony sector in Accra, Ghana6
Futures of Outcome‐Based Contracts for industrial equipment: A Disaggregative Delphi study6
Special issue introduction: Everyday digital energy futures6
Mission accomplished? How food entrepreneurship discursively constructs futures for sustainable food6
The ethics of climate generosity and the “Median Commons”: An experimental future within complexity6
The monstrosity of the search for extraterrestrial life: Preparing for a future discovery6
Literary futures: Harnessing fiction for futures work6
Public acceptance of post-growth: Factors and implications for post-growth strategy6
Towards a material-temporal understanding of infrastructural unmaking6
Prospective structural analysis as instrument for identification of the critical drivers in the oil industry6
Exploring a method to reduce inconsistency in the group Analytic Hierarchy Process using the Delphi method and Nudge theory6
Scenario generation and scenario quality using the cone of plausibility5
Future touch in industry: Exploring sociotechnical imaginaries of tactile (tele)robots5
Making warming worlds: Future making between climate politics and science – The case of the Structured Expert Dialogue5
A forward-looking approach to climate change and the risk of societal collapse5
Extended Peer Communities: Appraising the contributions of tacit knowledges in climate change decision-making5
Using AI to model future societal instability5
Representing posterity: Two challenges5
Extended peer communities: Creating good and fair knowledges5
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Adapting German energy transition rules for Iraq through industry, flexibility, and demand management5
Towards purposeful business schools: Deepening and broadening external engagement5
Perceptual model for semantic representation of design futures practice cases: Towards the development of a design futures repository5
Strategic scenario building for planning energy resources: The case of Araucania, Chile5
From the open society to the closed society: Reconsidering Popper on natural and social science5
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Can energy descent be justified by critiquing 100% renewable energy scenarios? A reply to Floyd et al.5
Designing to elicit future affective potential: Café 20575
Addressing the challenge of a “common” Future: The French contemporary mobilizations against injustice in face of the ecological and social emergencies5
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