Futures

Papers
(The TQCC of Futures is 8. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Hoping for community in a technologically decelerated world - A critical utopian approach101
‘Will the world never be the same?’ Everyday imaginaries of post-corona futures74
Tomorrow let’s all be pangolins! Western affirmation of a relational ontology in thinking and acting for a multi-species future73
Climate-resilient and regenerative futures for Latin America and the Caribbean68
Why skyscrapers after Covid-19?64
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After flight. Visions from London Heathrow51
Anticipating human resilience and vulnerability on the path to 2030: What can we learn from COVID-19?47
How does research and development (R&D) strategy shift by adopting imaginary future generations? – Insights from future design practice in a water engineering company45
Empowering change for future-making: Developing agency by framing wicked problems through design37
The future vision(s) of AI health in the Nordics: Comparing the national AI strategies34
Narratives of sustainability in digital media: An observatory for digital narratives34
How universities study the future: A critical view34
Co-experiential futuring: Where speculative design and arts meet futures studies33
Between continuous presents and disruptive futures: Identifying the ideological backbones of global environmental scenarios33
Prefigurative pedagogies: Learning to build alternative futures in student housing co-operatives33
New frontiers in local government community engagement: Towards transformative place-based futures33
The social construction of futures31
Delphi-based future scenarios: A bibliometric analysis of climate change case studies31
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Provocation: A proactive strategy for anticipation and innovation28
Was Germany’s Lockdown in Spring 2020 Necessary? How Bad Data Quality Can Turn a Simulation Into a Delusion that Shapes the Future28
Implementing catchment-wide flood risk management plans: futures and justice conflicts27
Caring for technologies, caring for Country27
The interplay of competencies and governance settings in dealing with uncertainty: A comparison of mobility as a service in the Netherlands and Australia27
Exploring visions and vision clusters of sustainable food packaging - The case of Finland25
Profits over people: The dangers of privatizing space colonization25
The future of compulsory schooling: Participant developed scenarios from a modified Delphi survey24
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Sustainability and futures, moving beyond "The Natural" and "The Artificial"23
Precarity and Beyond: A Reflection on the work of Richard Slaughter23
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The value produced in lending strategic problems as live cases in futures education22
The transformative potential of artificial intelligence22
Navigating the transition: Unraveling the EU's different imaginaries for a just future22
International risk of food insecurity and mass mortality in a runaway global warming scenario22
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The thickening of futures21
'Ancestral future': On consumption, ethics and the Anthropocene21
Cognitive mechanisms in foresight: A bridge between psychology and futures studies20
What futures for the Apennines? The anthropo-systemic value of mountainous inner areas20
Forms of participatory futuring for urban sustainability: A systematic review20
When opposites attract—Impact of cultural distance and polarised success in the future of economic unions20
The end of selection as a driver of human evolution19
Citizen science and Post-Normal Science’s extended peer community: Identifying overlaps by mapping typologies19
Strategic openings: On the productivity of blended long-term perspectives in spatial strategy. A Dutch case study19
Foregrounding citizen imaginaries: Exploring just energy futures through a citizens' assembly in Lebanon19
Dynamic Living Space: Toward a society where people can live anywhere in 205018
From the universal to the plural: Imagining, building up and obliterating alternative futures18
Blueprint for forever: Securing human far futures with ectogenesis18
From “snowflake generation” to “agents of social change”: Recognizing the voice of Spanish young people in the post-pandemic era17
The nutshell kings: Why is human space settlement controversial in the first place?17
Rethinking the brain drain: A framework to analyze the future behavior of complex socio-economic systems17
“When values are in dispute”: Ethics dialogues to go beyond ethics frameworks?16
Cross-country comparative analysis and case study of institutions for future generations16
Developing shared understanding through online interdisciplinary collaboration: Reflections from a research project on better integration of health outcomes in future urban development practice16
Augmented futures? Scenarios and implications of augmented reality use in public spaces16
What scenario-building characteristics should be used in GenAI prompting?16
Legitimacy and justifiability of non-state geoengineering16
Dare to imagine. Explorative scenarios for re-shaping human-nature relationships in an inner periphery in the Italian Apennines16
What’s next in the healthcare system? The contribution of digital innovation in achieving patient-centricity15
Flying cars and boring companies: Interrogating the feasibility of the transport futures of tech executives15
A futures perspective of health, climate change and poverty in the United States15
A shared socio-economic pathway based framework for characterising future emissions of chemicals to the natural environment15
Types of scenario planning and their effectiveness: A review of reviews15
Axiological futurism: The systematic study of the future of values15
Navigating urban futures: Exploring NbS upscaling discourses, practices, and relations in reimagining human-nature relationships15
Coworking in the digital economy: Context, motivations, and outcomes15
Extending the shared socioeconomic pathways for adaptation planning of blue tourism14
Visioning for cultural industries: CLA inspired scenario method14
Chronotopic imaginaries: A narrative approach to the letters from the post-pandemic future14
Radically hopeful visions: Futuring for institutional anti-racism work14
The social imaginaries on governance through data: Q-methodological analysis of data professionals' views in the field of mobility14
Expressions of untruth, suppressions of truth. A 21st century reintroduction to “Simulation and Dissimulation”14
Science – Post-normal perspectives13
The future is flexible? Exploring expert visions of energy system decarbonisation13
Beyond the ‘Anthropocene’ impasse: The Colonial past and dissenting futures in the era of climate crisis13
Towards achieving net zero by 2050 in the UK – Stakeholder perspectives in integrated urban planning13
Understanding the complexities of Building-Integrated Agriculture. Can food shape the future built environment?13
Why space exploitation may provide sustainable development: Climate ethics and the human future as a multi-planetary species13
Anticipating emerging medical technologies: The start of an international horizon scanning tool for medical devices13
Enhancing the horizon scanning utility of futures-oriented systematic and scoping reviews13
Peace and reparations in legal drug markets in Colombia13
Participatory modeling of past, current and future groundwater governance: An experiment in Aousja Ghar El Melh, Tunisia13
Framework for understanding quantum computing use cases from a multidisciplinary perspective and future research directions13
Future of food: A technology-centered path towards sustainable production in 210012
A meta-network analysis of methodological specifications for system dynamics modelling application in agricultural food systems12
”Your research or my tinkering won’t help”: On (the lack of) Climate Adaptation Imaginaries in the Swedish Arctic12
Gender-responsive disaster risk reduction strategy at the community level: A qualitative approach to analyze coastal communities in Bangladesh12
The future of work of academics in the age of Artificial Intelligence: State-of-the-art and a research roadmap12
Creativity: The flawed forge of tomorrows12
Urban informality and users-led social innovation: Challenges and opportunities for the future human centred city12
From profit maximization to social welfare maximization: Reclaiming the purpose of American business education12
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Planning for a future free from rebound effects12
Post-COVID-19 scenarios: A method for moments of crisis12
Guiding visions of corporate smart city innovators: Identifying opportunities for participatory futuring12
Present-oriented reconciliation and reparative futures in the making – The case of Rodeemos el Diálogo in Colombia12
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Richard Slaughter: Critical Futures and the Knowledge Base of Futures Studies; Evaluation of a selection of Slaughter’s published work11
The future of unmanned combat aerial vehicles: An analysis using the Three Horizons framework11
Hopes over fears: Can democratic deliberation increase positive emotions concerning the future?11
“If education is the key, then school is the lock”: Reparative futures thinking beyond the modern school11
Climate perplexity: Rural changemakers facing the anthropocene11
Five key dimensions of post-growth business: Putting the pieces together11
Ballet not for everyone: A reply to Szocik11
Exploring intercultural perspectives of migration futures in a super-diverse city through intercultural participatory futures workshops: The case of Istanbul11
Developments and challenges of foresight evaluation: Review of the past 30 years of research11
Using foresight to explore the impacts of flooding in Houston on health, poverty, and equity out to 205011
The problem of the present in West Africa: Introducing a conceptual framework10
Time for transition – Temporal structures in energy governance in contemporary Poland10
Exploring urban novel ecosystems: Understandings, insights and recommendations for future research and practice10
Engagements with uncertain futures – Analysing survivalist preparedness10
Realizing 2050 Net-zero in South Korea: From adaptive reduction to proactive response10
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Post-crises (new) normality. Across social practices and speculative fictions10
Do internal foresight activities add value to decision-making? Insights from an empirical investigation10
Reparative futures10
Techno Futurist, sustained inequalities and Eco-utopia: Speculative imaginaries of Business Education in 205010
Anticipating the work to be done10
Working deliberat(iv)ely with(in) wicked problems: The existential, epistemological and ethical nexus of imperfect knowledge10
Is co-production a ‘good’ concept? Three responses10
Constructing practice-oriented futures for sustainable urban food policy in Bangkok10
A futurology of the sustainable development process of Hormozgan Province, Iran9
Measuring the future: The youth HDI in Spain9
Moral circle expansion: A promising strategy to impact the far future9
Smashing conformity: Hurling the hammer at the machine9
On the evolution of maritime ports towards the Physical Internet9
Institutionalisation of participative and collaborative governance: Case studies of Lithuania 2030 and Finland 20309
Johan Galtung: Reflexivity, creativity, and imagination9
A priceless gift – Reflections on Richard Slaughter’s influence on working and living with the future9
From narratives to numbers: Spatial downscaling and quantification of future water, food & energy security requirements in the Indus basin9
Artificial intelligence in the judiciary: A critical view9
Strategy for the long term: Pressures, counter-pressures and mechanisms in governance9
Reparative futures in a thick, virtuous present9
Postnormal Prometheus: How to anticipate and navigate postnormal times9
Parallel futures? Indigenous resurgence and the haunting of the settler9
AI alignment: Assessing the global impact of recommender systems9
Benefits or concerns of AI: A multistakeholder responsibility9
Toward resilient urban environments: Transition pathways in nature-based solutions9
Is there such a thing as a capitalist eschatology?9
MBA futures: Images from Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) signatories during the COVID-19 pandemic9
Young people’s situated capacity to imagine a desired post-pandemic future: A qualitative methodology for assessing futures consciousness8
Home-based work in cities: In search of an appropriate urban planning response8
Teaching futures thinking literacy and futures studies in schools8
Sensemaking and lens-shaping: Identifying citizen contributions to foresight through comparative topic modelling8
The long cycle perspective on the emerging bio age8
The FutureS of healthcare8
Sharpening anticipatory design senses for sustainable ‘scentory’ futures8
Coping with uncertainty: Exploring the foresight actions’ role in supporting growth-orientation among Finnish dairy farmers8
Imagining carbon-neutral futures: Comprehensive narratives through citizen participation8
The dysgenics objection to longtermism8
Exploring futures for the science of global risk8
Envisioning ecopolitical futures: Reading climate fiction as political theory8
Just mobility futures: Challenges for e-mobility transitions from a global perspective8
Influence of social factors and environmental behaviour in the knowledge and opinion about circular economy8
Foresight and responsible innovation: Openness and closure in anticipatory heuristics8
Future use of natural gas under tightening climate targets8
Unconditional basic income and a degrowth transition: Adding empirical rigour to radical visions8
Futures for the uncommitted? Translating net-zero to pension savers8
Displaced futures or futures in displacement? Anticipations around the proposed High Grand Falls Dam in Kenya8
Cultural story models in making sense of a desired post-corona world8
Making heterogeneous infrastructure futures in and beyond the global south8
Futures literacy – To belong, participate and act!8
Studying long-term storage as material visions of the future8
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Pleasure addiction via brain-manipulating technologies as a possible contributor to civilizational decline8
Foresight in natural resource management: A case study in Australia8
Is China evolving a new model for civilization?8
Picture the future, play the present: Re-imagining sustainable cities through a large-scale location-based game8
The human-AI dyad: Navigating the new frontier of entrepreneurial discourse8
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