Futures

Article	Citations
The implications of the Covid-19 pandemic for delivering the Sustainable Development Goals	73
A multi-stakeholder perspective on sustainable healthcare: From 2030 onwards	66
Transdisciplinarity: Synthesis towards a modular approach	51
Coworking in the digital economy: Context, motivations, and outcomes	47
Management challenges for future digitalization of healthcare services	47
Exploring global food system shocks, scenarios and outcomes	45
Futures literacy and the diversity of the future	39
Exploring the governance and implementation of sustainable development initiatives through blockchain technology	38
The transformative potential of artificial intelligence	37
Stakeholders’ perspectives on future electric vehicle charging infrastructure developments	32
Agriculture 4.0: A systematic literature review on the paradigm, technologies and benefits	30
Can robots tackle late-life loneliness? Scanning of future opportunities and challenges in assisted living facilities	28
The engagement of home-based businesses in the digital economy	27
The role of energy prosumers in the transition of the Finnish energy system towards 100 % renewable energy by 2050	27
Framing different energy futures? Comparing Fridays for Future and Extinction Rebellion in Germany	27
Assessing climate change’s contribution to global catastrophic risk	26
The future of Telemedicine Cabin? The case of the French students’ acceptability	26
The adaptiveness of the healthcare system to the fourth industrial revolution: A preliminary analysis	26
Food additives and the future of health: An analysis of the ongoing controversy on titanium dioxide	26
Provincialising Futures Literacy: A caution against codification	25
Energy descent as a post-carbon transition scenario: How ‘knowledge humility’ reshapes energy futures for post-normal times	25
Science, the endless frontier of regulatory capture	24
Digital futures of small businesses and entrepreneurial opportunity	23
Futures literacy – To belong, participate and act!	22
Strategy for collectives and common goods	22

When two movements collide: Learning from labour and environmental struggles for future Just Transitions	22
The politics of smart expectations: Interrogating the knowledge claims of smart mobility	22
The future in sustainability transitions - Interlinkages between the multi-level perspective and futures studies	22
The risk of catastrophic climate change: Future energy implications	22
Digital technologies, artificial intelligence, and bureaucratic transformation	22
Embedding care robots into society and practice: Socio-technical considerations	22
Critical mineral sustainable supply: Challenges and governance	20
The future of unmanned combat aerial vehicles: An analysis using the Three Horizons framework	20
Stakeholders’ preferences for the future of transport in Europe: Participatory evaluation of scenarios combining scenario planning and the multi-actor multi-criteria analysis	20
Resilient Power: A home-based electricity generation and storage solution for the medically vulnerable during climate-induced power outages	20
Extending the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) to support local adaptation planning—A climate service for Flensburg, Germany	19
Is co-production a ‘good’ concept? Three responses	19
The six scenario archetypes framework: A systematic investigation of science fiction films set in the future	19
The sustainable development goals: A universalist promise for the future	19
Collaborative speculation: Anticipation, inclusion and designing counterfactual futures for appropriation	19
Societal collapse: A literature review	19
Individual futures consciousness: Psychology behind the five-dimensional Futures Consciousness scale	18
The Fragile World Hypothesis: Complexity, Fragility, and Systemic Existential Risk	17
Small firms as agents of sustainable change	17
Farewell Alternative Futures?	17
‘Solving for X?’ Towards a problem-finding framework to ground long-term governance strategies for artificial intelligence	17
Governing through strategies: How does Finland sustain a future-oriented environmental policy for the long term?	17
Looking backward to the future: On past-facing approaches to futuring	17
Levelling the playing field? Towards a critical-social perspective on digital entrepreneurship	17
Post-automation	17
Axiological futurism: The systematic study of the future of values	16
The evolution of Foresight: What evidence is there in scientific publications?	16
Embracing context and complexity to address environmental challenges in the water-energy-food nexus	16
Contextualising weak signals: Towards a relational theory of futures knowledge	15
Systematic analysis of development in Iran’s tourism market in the form of future study: A new method of strategic planning	15
Building plausible futures: Scenario-based strategic planning of industrial development of Kyrgyzstan	15
Energy regime reconfiguration and just transitions in the Global South: Lessons for West Africa from Morocco’s comparative experience	15
Types of scenario planning and their effectiveness: A review of reviews	15
The smog of ignorance: Knowledge and wisdom in postnormal times	15
The World Intellectual Property Organization and the sustainable development agenda	14
Moral circle expansion: A promising strategy to impact the far future	14
Five key dimensions of post-growth business: Putting the pieces together	14
Assessing the options for combatting democratic myopia and safeguarding long-term interests	14
Public acceptance of post-growth: Factors and implications for post-growth strategy	14
An integrated framework for anticipating the future and dealing with uncertainty in policymaking	14
There is no such thing as a short-term issue	13
Fifteen shadows of socio-cultural AI: A systematic review and future perspectives	13
The German energy transition and the eroding consensus on ecological modernization: A radical democratic perspective on conflicts over competing justice claims and energy visions	13
Linking deliberative evaluation with integrated assessment and modelling: A methodological framework and its application to agricultural water management	13
Envisioning the future of health systems: Exploratory insights from European countries	13
Futures literacy through narrative	13
Home-based work in cities: In search of an appropriate urban planning response	12
The future is flexible? Exploring expert visions of energy system decarbonisation	12
Extended Peer Communities: Appraising the contributions of tacit knowledges in climate change decision-making	12
The adoption, diffusion & categorical ambiguity trifecta of social robots in e-health – Insights from healthcare professionals	12

Creating futures images for sustainable cruise ships: Insights on collaborative foresight for sustainability enhancement	12
The passing of western civilization	12
A framework for Science Shop processes: Results of a modified Delphi study	12
Was Germany’s Lockdown in Spring 2020 Necessary? How Bad Data Quality Can Turn a Simulation Into a Delusion that Shapes the Future	12
Building individual futures capacity through transformative futures learning	12
The FutureS of healthcare	12
The challenges of futures literacy	12
The future of pharmaceuticals industry within the triad: The role of knowledge spillovers in innovation process	12
The future of aging in smart environments: Four scenarios of the United States in 2050	12
Future space missions and human enhancement: Medical and ethical challenges	11
On the evolution of maritime ports towards the Physical Internet	11
A socio-technical lens on security in sustainability transitions: Future expectations for positive and negative security	11
Technology, capital substitution and labor dynamics: global workforce disruption in the 21st century?	11
Embedding imaginaries- electric vehicles in Sweden's fossil fuel free future	11
Futures of the social metabolism: Degrowth, circular economy and the value of waste	11
Participatory backcasting: Building pathways towards reconciliation?	11
Collaborative imagination: A methodological approach	11
Using foresight to explore the impacts of flooding in Houston on health, poverty, and equity out to 2050	10
A futures perspective of health, climate change and poverty in the United States	10
From narratives to numbers: Spatial downscaling and quantification of future water, food & energy security requirements in the Indus basin	10
Mastering futures literacy in higher education: An evaluation of learning outcomes and instructional design of a faculty development program	10
The future of the forest-based bioeconomy in selected southeast European countries	10
The ambiguities of uncertainty: A review of uncertainty frameworks relevant to the assessment of environmental change	10
Shifting the perception of water environment problems by introducing “imaginary future generations”—Evidence from participatory workshop in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam	10
Strengthening foresight for governance of social-ecological systems: An interdisciplinary perspective	10
The Driverless Cars Emulsion: Using participatory foresight and constructive conflict to address transport’s wicked problems	10
Towards purposeful business schools: Deepening and broadening external engagement	10
The social construction of futures	10
Imagining transformation: Change agent narratives of sustainable futures	9
Foresight and design fictions meet at a policy lab: An experimentation approach in public sector innovation	9
New frontiers in local government community engagement: Towards transformative place-based futures	9
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	9
Sensemaking and lens-shaping: Identifying citizen contributions to foresight through comparative topic modelling	9
Envisioning the futures of cultural tourism	9
Unifying weak signals definitions to improve construct understanding	9
Taking power seriously: Towards a power-sensitive approach for transdisciplinary action research	9
Reinvention paths and reinvention paradox: Strategic change in Western Newfoundland communities	9
Anticipating and planning for mine closure in South Africa	9
An outline of future-oriented dialectics: Conceptualising dialectical positions, trajectories and processes in the context of futures research	8
(De)futuring democracy: Labs, playgrounds, and ateliers as democratic innovations	8
A simulation exercise for incorporating long-term path dependencies in urgent decision-making	8
Collective design anticipation	8
Images of the future for a circular economy: The case of Finland	8
The Territorial Foresight for the construction of shared visions and mechanisms to minimize social conflicts: The case of Latin America	8
Disruptive Technologies for e-Diasporas: Blockchain, DAOs, Data Cooperatives, Metaverse, and ChatGPT	8
Back to the future: Old values for a new (more equal) world	8
Empowering change for future-making: Developing agency by framing wicked problems through design	8
Strategic spatial planning through pragmatic blueprints: Forms and levels of adaptivity in modernist planning of the Dutch IJsselmeerpolders	8
Better research through more participation? The future of integrated climate change assessments	8
Future touch in industry: Exploring sociotechnical imaginaries of tactile (tele)robots	8
Risks of space colonization	8
Effect of proxy voting for children under the voting age on parental altruism towards future generations	8
Anticipating human resilience and vulnerability on the path to 2030: What can we learn from COVID-19?	8
Integrating uncertainties through participatory approaches: On the burden of cognitive exclusion and infodemic in a post-normal pandemic	8
How to visualise futures studies concepts: Revision of the futures cone	7
Foresight and responsible innovation: Openness and closure in anticipatory heuristics	7
Just mobility futures: Challenges for e-mobility transitions from a global perspective	7
Collective scenarios: Speculative improvisations for the Anthropocene	7
Foregrounding citizen imaginaries: Exploring just energy futures through a citizens' assembly in Lebanon	7
Advancing Decision-Visualization Environments—Empirically informed Design Recommendations	7
International risk of food insecurity and mass mortality in a runaway global warming scenario	7
In search of plan(et) B: Irrational rationality, capitalist realism, and space colonization	7
Young people’s situated capacity to imagine a desired post-pandemic future: A qualitative methodology for assessing futures consciousness	7
Picture the future, play the present: Re-imagining sustainable cities through a large-scale location-based game	7
Medicine of the future: How and who is going to treat us?	7
Shitty food-based world-making: Recasting human|microbiome relationships beyond shame and taboo	7
Collaborative design prototyping in transdisciplinary research: An approach to heterogeneity and unknowns	7
Whose future is it anyway? Struggles for just energy futures	7
Contested net-zero target setting in a transitioning country: The case of South Korea	7
Governance modes and epistemologies of future-oriented vulnerability assessments: Example of a mixed-methods approach	7
Strategy’s futures	7
What life-course research can contribute to futures studies	7
Deriving new anticipation-based policy instruments for attracting research and development and innovation in global value chains to Europe	7
A common ground? Constructing and exploring scenarios for infrastructure network-of-networks	7
Empowering upcoming city developers with futures literacy	7
Applying pedagogical theories to understand learning in participatory scenario planning	7
Digital swadeshi and 3D printing intellectual property in India: The multi-level perspective, causal layered analysis and backcasting	7
The making of Antarctic futures: Participatory game design at the interface between science and policy	7
Building scenarios for urban mobility in 2030: The combination of cross-impact balance analysis with participatory stakeholder workshops	6
Digital futures of small businesses and entrepreneurial opportunity	6

Deepening futures methods to face the civilisational crisis	6
Decolonial feminisms and degrowth	6
National identity and the future of branding the arts	6
In search of sectoral foresight methodology: Bridging foresight and sectoral system of innovation and production	6
Systemic sustainability effects of contemporary digitalization: A scoping review and research agenda	6
“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	6
Bricolage and informal businesses: Young entrepreneurs in the mobile telephony sector in Accra, Ghana	6
Futures images of woodchips as an energy source in Finland	6
Designing future experiences of the everyday: Pointers for methodical expansion of sustainability transitions research	6
Extending the shared socioeconomic pathways for adaptation planning of blue tourism	6
Governing technological zones, making national renewable energy futures	6
A shared socio-economic pathway based framework for characterising future emissions of chemicals to the natural environment	6
Faith in the future: On a mission to integrate sustainability into management theory and practice	6
Mind the gap! Backcasting local actors’ climate transition in Hammarby Sjöstad, Stockholm	6
Bottom-up development of passenger travel demand scenarios in Japan considering heterogeneous actors and reflecting a narrative of future socioeconomic change	6
Why space exploitation may provide sustainable development: Climate ethics and the human future as a multi-planetary species	6
Is Generation Z ready to fly into the space? The future of tourism is coming	6
Assessment in horizon scanning by various stakeholder groups using Osgood’s semantic differential scale – A methodological development	6
Work/family life by 2040: Between a gig economy and traditional roles	6
Is an ‘other’ city possible? Using feminist utopias in creating a more inclusive vision of the future city	6
Five anticipation communities in complex systems sciences	6
Designing early warning systems for detecting systemic risk: A case study and discussion	6
Probability and desirability of future developments – Results of a large-scale Argumentative Delphi in support of Horizon Europe preparation	5
Research is in the air in Valle del Serchio	5
What makes long-term perspectives endure? Lessons from Dutch nature conservation	5
Participatory utopian sketching: A methodological framework for collaborative citizen (re)imagination of urban spatial futures	5
Striking the balance: Sustainability and institutional transitions in the European Environment Agency	5
Shifting towards non-anthropocentrism: In dialogue with speculative design futures	5
Coping with uncertainty: Exploring the foresight actions’ role in supporting growth-orientation among Finnish dairy farmers	5
Approaches to anticipatory governance in West Africa: How conceptions of the future have implications for climate action in the present	5
Dutch doubts and desires. Exploring citizen opinions on future and technology	5
Entrepreneurial foresight: Discovery of future opportunities	5
The algorithmic workplace and its enactive effect on the future of professions	5
Delphi-based future scenarios: A bibliometric analysis of climate change case studies	5
Operationalising transboundary cooperation through game theory: An energy water food nexus approach for the Middle East and North Africa	5
Using digital technologies to deliver scenarios to geographically dispersed stakeholders: Lessons learned from the transportation sector	5
Agents for sustainable futures? The (unfulfilled) promise of sustainability at leading business schools	5
Breaking through the epistemic impasse: Ending homelessness with the invention of ‘functional zero’ in the Anglo-American world	5
Towards more sustainable agricultural landscapes: Lessons from Northwestern Mexico and the Western Highlands of Guatemala	5
Systemic knowledge integration in transdisciplinary and sustainability transformation research	5
Engagements with uncertain futures – Analysing survivalist preparedness	5
Branded activism: Navigating the tension between culture and market in social media	5
Climate-resilient and regenerative futures for Latin America and the Caribbean	5
Contextual insight as an antecedent to strategic foresight	5
Anticipatory study for identifying the key influential factors of the biogas system in Germany contributing to the energy system of 2050	5
Education first: What really matters in working for sustainability	5
Barriers to developing futures literacy in organisations	5
Weaving the links: Traditional knowledge into modern science	5
Post-growth policies for the future of just transitions in an era of uncertainty	5
The future of compulsory schooling: Participant developed scenarios from a modified Delphi survey	4
Sustainability and futures, moving beyond "The Natural" and "The Artificial"	4
The future vision(s) of AI health in the Nordics: Comparing the national AI strategies	4
Is Covid-19 a dread risk? The death toll of the pandemic year 2020 in long-term and transnational perspective	4
Trends as Future Prompts in the Anticipatory Design Practice	4
New spaces for healthcare futures studies: Connecting existing theory to deeper participatory practice	4
The private sector to the rescue? Analysis of a hypothetical scenario of SG deployment	4
The creation of dystopias as an alternative for imagining and materializing a university of the future	4
Imagining climate resilient futures: A layered Delphi panel approach	4
Strategy for the long term: Pressures, counter-pressures and mechanisms in governance	4
A scenario of solar geoengineering governance: Vulnerable states demand, and act	4
Can energy descent be justified by critiquing 100% renewable energy scenarios? A reply to Floyd et al.	4
Beyond archetypes: Advancing the knowledge of narrative fiction in future scenarios	4
The normative significance of future moral revolutions	4
The future of biotechnology crime: A parallel Delphi study with non-traditional experts	4
Disentangling strategic foresight? A critical analysis of the term building on the pioneering work of Richard Slaughter	4
Conducting hidden populations research: A reflective case study on researching the biohacking community	4
Young adults face the future of the United States: Perceptions of its promise, perils, and possibilities	4
Estrangement, immersion, and the future: Designing the speculative environments of the virtual reality “Museum of the Future”	4
Solar geoengineering governance: Insights from a scenario exercise	4
Can individuals caring little about future generations serve as their representatives?	4
Targeting net climate benefits by wood utilization in Finland: Participatory backcasting combined with quantitative scenario exploration	4
Rethinking the brain drain: A framework to analyze the future behavior of complex socio-economic systems	4
Narratives of change: Strategies for inclusivity in shaping socio-technical future visions	4
Solar geoengineering: Scenarios of future governance challenges	4
Understanding feminist anticipation through ‘back-talk’: 3 narratives of willful, deviant, and care-full co-design practices	4
Inner drives: Is the future of marketing communications more sustainable when using backcasting?	4
Future scenarios for the Brazilian electricity sector: PV as a new driving force?	4
Contested notions of energy justice and energy futures in struggles over tar sands development in British Columbia, Canada	4
An autoethnography about writing an eco-fiction on the Flemish circular economy	4
Futures of autonomous flight: Using a collaborative storytelling game to assess anticipatory assumptions	4
Getting past Cassandra: 21 C Slaughter	4
From the open society to the closed society: Reconsidering Popper on natural and social science	4
The middle powers roar: Exploring a minilateral solar geoengineering deployment scenario	4
A proposed framework for inclusive business schools	4
Paving the pathways towards sustainable future? A critical assessment of STI policy roadmaps as policy instruments for sustainability transitions	4
The problem of the present in West Africa: Introducing a conceptual framework	3
Applying foresight to policy agenda-setting: A successful case in South Korea	3
The critical futurist: Richard Slaughter’s foresight practice	3
Approaches to disruptive change: The contribution of complexity science to futures studies	3
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	3
H.G Wells, earthly and post-terrestrial futures	3
The thickening of futures	3
Disruptive technologies and future societies: Perspectives and forecasts based on Q-methodology	3
Narratives of sustainability in digital media: An observatory for digital narratives	3
Hopes over fears: Can democratic deliberation increase positive emotions concerning the future?	3