Linking foresight and sustainability: An integral approach

Floyd, Joshua; Zubevich, Kipling

doi:10.1016/j.futures.2009.08.001

Cited by 28 publications

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“…These can be thought of as future lessons to be learned from the application of futures research. First, the more relevant perspectives we can bring to bear on a problem, the more holistic and complete our solution will be (Floyd and Zubevich 2010). If efforts to address complex environmental problems routinely overlooked important economic or cultural aspects, the chances of successfully dealing with them would be slim.…”

Section: Conclusion and Future Lessons To Be Learnedmentioning

confidence: 99%

Strengthening Environmental Foresight: Potential Contributions of Futures Research

Βengston¹,

Kubik²,

Bishop³

2012

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ABSTRACT. The need for environmental foresight has increased in recent decades as the pace of change has accelerated and the frequency of surprise has increased. Successfully dealing with the growing impacts of change on social-ecological systems depends on our ability to anticipate change. But traditional scientific tools are blunt instruments for studying a future that does not exist. We propose that futures research, a transdisciplinary field of inquiry that has been developing for more than 50 years, offers an underused but fruitful set of approaches to address this important challenge. A few futures research methods-notably several forms of scenario analysis-have been applied to environmental issues and problems in recent years. But futurists have developed an array of other useful methods for exploring possible, plausible, and preferable futures, important insights into the nature of change, and perspectives for thinking creatively and deeply about the future. We present an overview of futures research and its potential to enrich environmental planning and policy by offering a cross-fertilization of new ideas and approaches, providing a more complete view of emerging environmental problems, and facilitating the development of strategies to increase adaptive capacity and deal more effectively with surprises.

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Section: Conclusion and Future Lessons To Be Learnedmentioning

confidence: 99%

Strengthening Environmental Foresight: Potential Contributions of Futures Research

Βengston¹,

Kubik²,

Bishop³

2012

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“…In terms of ontology, and in common both with complex perspectives toward transdisciplinarity and with critical realism, integralism offers a stratified understanding of reality. 5 A good starting point in this regard is that provided by the following nested hierarchy or ''holarchy'' (in ascending order of complexity) of the three orders of physiosphere, biosphere and noosphere, respectively [57] such that the biosphere is interpreted as existing within the noosphere. This holarchy is pertinent to ecology and ecological education as it contextualises the biosphere within a hierarchy of complexity, offering potential insights into relations between biospherical phenomena on the one hand and -arising from the noosphere -noetic (human) understandings, imaginaries, etc.…”

Section: Integralismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Eco-logical education for the long emergency

Hampson

2012

Futures

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“…Practically, sustainability is a future-oriented concern, as sustainable development can be defined from the 1987 Our Common Future report as: ''development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs'' [7]. In considering strategies for sustainability, continuing on the current trajectory is not an option [8]. Therefore, exploring alternate pathways and visions of the future has been integral to sustainability work.…”

Section: Sustainability Futuresmentioning

confidence: 99%