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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
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Tomorrow let’s all be pangolins! Western affirmation of a relational ontology in thinking and acting for a multi-species future146
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Hoping for community in a technologically decelerated world - A critical utopian approach100
Discourse in the future of work: How do business organizations and labor unions view automation?84
Editorial: Reflections on post-normal science and ethics83
‘Will the world never be the same?’ Everyday imaginaries of post-corona futures82
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After flight. Visions from London Heathrow61
Leveraging value-based pathways for Indigenous food security through participatory scenario planning: A case study from St. Paul Island, Alaska, USA56
Between continuous presents and disruptive futures: Identifying the ideological backbones of global environmental scenarios55
How universities study the future: A critical view48
The future vision(s) of AI health in the Nordics: Comparing the national AI strategies47
A greener future cannot be bought: On the paradoxes of practising contemporary consumption-driven sustainability45
How does research and development (R&D) strategy shift by adopting imaginary future generations? – Insights from future design practice in a water engineering company44
Anticipating human resilience and vulnerability on the path to 2030: What can we learn from COVID-19?43
Empowering change for future-making: Developing agency by framing wicked problems through design42
Co-experiential futuring: Where speculative design and arts meet futures studies41
Prefigurative pedagogies: Learning to build alternative futures in student housing co-operatives41
Narratives of sustainability in digital media: An observatory for digital narratives39
Climate-resilient and regenerative futures for Latin America and the Caribbean38
Too much hope in us? A qualitative inquiry into the deficit of ecological reflexivity in UN sustainability discourses38
Delphi-based future scenarios: A bibliometric analysis of climate change case studies34
Future proofing expertise: AI as a power-up, not a takeover33
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Exploring visions and vision clusters of sustainable food packaging - The case of Finland31
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Profits over people: The dangers of privatizing space colonization27
Caring for technologies, caring for Country27
Implementing catchment-wide flood risk management plans: futures and justice conflicts27
Designing value propositions for sustainability: The use of speculative storytelling to explore future mobility26
The value produced in lending strategic problems as live cases in futures education26
Policy design and decision criteria for sustainable water supply from the perspective of “imaginary future generations” - A deliberation experiment with policymakers in a municipality, Japan25
Sustainability and futures, moving beyond "The Natural" and "The Artificial"25
Navigating the transition: Unraveling the EU's different imaginaries for a just future25
The interplay of competencies and governance settings in dealing with uncertainty: A comparison of mobility as a service in the Netherlands and Australia24
International risk of food insecurity and mass mortality in a runaway global warming scenario24
Was Germany’s Lockdown in Spring 2020 Necessary? How Bad Data Quality Can Turn a Simulation Into a Delusion that Shapes the Future24
The transformative potential of artificial intelligence24
Provocation: A proactive strategy for anticipation and innovation24
Blueprint for forever: Securing human far futures with ectogenesis23
What futures for the Apennines? The anthropo-systemic value of mountainous inner areas23
Dynamic Living Space: Toward a society where people can live anywhere in 205022
The nutshell kings: Why is human space settlement controversial in the first place?22
From “snowflake generation” to “agents of social change”: Recognizing the voice of Spanish young people in the post-pandemic era21
(Counter)productive hope: Scrutinising the role of hope in sustainability21
Crisis of imagination: Integrating degrowth pedagogy for sustainability innovation in business schools21
'Ancestral future': On consumption, ethics and the Anthropocene21
Regimes of futurity: Progress, catastrophe, and historicity in the Anthropocene21
The end of selection as a driver of human evolution20
Rethinking the brain drain: A framework to analyze the future behavior of complex socio-economic systems20
Citizen science and Post-Normal Science’s extended peer community: Identifying overlaps by mapping typologies19
Cognitive mechanisms in foresight: A bridge between psychology and futures studies19
Foregrounding citizen imaginaries: Exploring just energy futures through a citizens' assembly in Lebanon19
When opposites attract—Impact of cultural distance and polarised success in the future of economic unions18
From the universal to the plural: Imagining, building up and obliterating alternative futures18
A global outlook on LGBTI social (ex)inclusion through 2030: Insights from queer and post colonial futures perspectives18
What’s next in the healthcare system? The contribution of digital innovation in achieving patient-centricity18
Forms of participatory futuring for urban sustainability: A systematic review18
“When values are in dispute”: Ethics dialogues to go beyond ethics frameworks?17
Shaping circular futures: The role of future-making practices in the transition to circular food systems17
Snails ahead! Metaphors of change and distributed prefiguration in the degrowth movement17
The future of teaching and learning in the context of emerging artificial intelligence technologies17
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
Legitimacy and justifiability of non-state geoengineering17
Navigating urban futures: Exploring NbS upscaling discourses, practices, and relations in reimagining human-nature relationships17
Cross-country comparative analysis and case study of institutions for future generations17
Developing shared understanding through online interdisciplinary collaboration: Reflections from a research project on better integration of health outcomes in future urban development practice17
Capturing the expanding research areas of the future of humanity within the field of futures studies: The case for a transcendental futures subdiscipline16
Augmented futures? Scenarios and implications of augmented reality use in public spaces16
Understanding the complexities of Building-Integrated Agriculture. Can food shape the future built environment?16
From Gen Z to Boomers: Motivational drivers shaping Industry 5.0 and the future of work16
Chronotopic imaginaries: A narrative approach to the letters from the post-pandemic future16
A shared socio-economic pathway based framework for characterising future emissions of chemicals to the natural environment16
Types of scenario planning and their effectiveness: A review of reviews16
The social imaginaries on governance through data: Q-methodological analysis of data professionals' views in the field of mobility16
Expressions of untruth, suppressions of truth. A 21st century reintroduction to “Simulation and Dissimulation”16
Participatory modeling of past, current and future groundwater governance: An experiment in Aousja Ghar El Melh, Tunisia16
Coworking in the digital economy: Context, motivations, and outcomes16
Flying cars and boring companies: Interrogating the feasibility of the transport futures of tech executives16
Peace and reparations in legal drug markets in Colombia16
Radically hopeful visions: Futuring for institutional anti-racism work16
Measuring the intangible: A multidimensional framework for assessing societal engagement in participatory foresight15
A meta-network analysis of methodological specifications for system dynamics modelling application in agricultural food systems15
Guiding visions of corporate smart city innovators: Identifying opportunities for participatory futuring15
Unveiling the plurality of visions for the ecological transition in Europe15
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Science – Post-normal perspectives15
Urban futures through young eyes: Concept mapping youth visions of tomorrow’s cities15
Extending the shared socioeconomic pathways for adaptation planning of blue tourism15
From complexity to clarity: Eden3's novel perspective on limits to growth14
Framework for understanding quantum computing use cases from a multidisciplinary perspective and future research directions14
Why space exploitation may provide sustainable development: Climate ethics and the human future as a multi-planetary species14
”Your research or my tinkering won’t help”: On (the lack of) Climate Adaptation Imaginaries in the Swedish Arctic14
Urban informality and users-led social innovation: Challenges and opportunities for the future human centred city14
Present-oriented reconciliation and reparative futures in the making – The case of Rodeemos el Diálogo in Colombia14
Enhancing the horizon scanning utility of futures-oriented systematic and scoping reviews14
Anticipating emerging medical technologies: The start of an international horizon scanning tool for medical devices14
From profit maximization to social welfare maximization: Reclaiming the purpose of American business education14
Beyond the ‘Anthropocene’ impasse: The Colonial past and dissenting futures in the era of climate crisis14
Towards achieving net zero by 2050 in the UK – Stakeholder perspectives in integrated urban planning14
“If education is the key, then school is the lock”: Reparative futures thinking beyond the modern school13
Gender-responsive disaster risk reduction strategy at the community level: A qualitative approach to analyze coastal communities in Bangladesh13
Exploring intercultural perspectives of migration futures in a super-diverse city through intercultural participatory futures workshops: The case of Istanbul13
Future of food: A technology-centered path towards sustainable production in 210013
The future of work of academics in the age of Artificial Intelligence: State-of-the-art and a research roadmap13
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Planning for a future free from rebound effects12
Ballet not for everyone: A reply to Szocik12
Post-COVID-19 scenarios: A method for moments of crisis12
Realizing 2050 Net-zero in South Korea: From adaptive reduction to proactive response12
Climate perplexity: Rural changemakers facing the anthropocene12
Reimagining climate change futures: A review of arts-based education programs11
Developments and challenges of foresight evaluation: Review of the past 30 years of research11
Time for transition – Temporal structures in energy governance in contemporary Poland11
Reparative futures11
Constructing practice-oriented futures for sustainable urban food policy in Bangkok11
Exploring urban novel ecosystems: Understandings, insights and recommendations for future research and practice11
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Creativity: The flawed forge of tomorrows11
Embracing the digital horizon: Future scenarios for the Dutch higher education system11
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Techno Futurist, sustained inequalities and Eco-utopia: Speculative imaginaries of Business Education in 205011
Is co-production a ‘good’ concept? Three responses11
Working deliberat(iv)ely with(in) wicked problems: The existential, epistemological and ethical nexus of imperfect knowledge11
Post-crises (new) normality. Across social practices and speculative fictions11
Hopes over fears: Can democratic deliberation increase positive emotions concerning the future?11
Learning Futures Consciousness: An integrative review11
Do internal foresight activities add value to decision-making? Insights from an empirical investigation11
Parallel futures? Indigenous resurgence and the haunting of the settler11
Virtual flying carpets and digital disaster rooms: Towards a critical analysis of immersive speculative environments in Museums of the Future10
Everyday laboratories: Collective speculation and energy futures10
Johan Galtung: Reflexivity, creativity, and imagination10
A futurology of the sustainable development process of Hormozgan Province, Iran10
Measuring the future: The youth HDI in Spain10
Reparative futures in a thick, virtuous present10
Sharpening anticipatory design senses for sustainable ‘scentory’ futures10
Foresight in natural resource management: A case study in Australia10
Imagining carbon-neutral futures: Comprehensive narratives through citizen participation10
Institutionalisation of participative and collaborative governance: Case studies of Lithuania 2030 and Finland 203010
Is China evolving a new model for civilization?10
Benefits or concerns of AI: A multistakeholder responsibility10
AI alignment: Assessing the global impact of recommender systems10
Unconditional basic income and a degrowth transition: Adding empirical rigour to radical visions10
Future use of natural gas under tightening climate targets10
Shaping futures wisely: Integrating futures literacy with entrepreneurship10
Practising post-normal science through art-science collaborations: Institutionalising new approaches to future-making at the Joint Research Centre10
Is there such a thing as a capitalist eschatology?10
Postnormal Prometheus: How to anticipate and navigate postnormal times10
Toward resilient urban environments: Transition pathways in nature-based solutions10
The bioethics of biomodification for the future of space exploration: Evaluating insights from feminist and non-feminist approaches10
Artificial intelligence in the judiciary: A critical view10
MBA futures: Images from Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) signatories during the COVID-19 pandemic10
Futures for the uncommitted? Translating net-zero to pension savers9
The long cycle perspective on the emerging bio age9
The human-AI dyad: Navigating the new frontier of entrepreneurial discourse9
Teaching futures thinking literacy and futures studies in schools9
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Studying long-term storage as material visions of the future9
Displaced futures or futures in displacement? Anticipations around the proposed High Grand Falls Dam in Kenya9
Coping with uncertainty: Exploring the foresight actions’ role in supporting growth-orientation among Finnish dairy farmers9
Envisioning ecopolitical futures: Reading climate fiction as political theory9
Influence of social factors and environmental behaviour in the knowledge and opinion about circular economy9
Manufacturing ignorance or dealing with complexity? Adaptation politics and the making of river futures in Colombia9
Pleasure addiction via brain-manipulating technologies as a possible contributor to civilizational decline9
Picture the future, play the present: Re-imagining sustainable cities through a large-scale location-based game9
Making heterogeneous infrastructure futures in and beyond the global south9
Just mobility futures: Challenges for e-mobility transitions from a global perspective9
Exploring futures for the science of global risk8
Re-thinking the role of exploratory scenarios for adaptive policymaking: An application for land use and transport planning8
Emerging from the global syndemic crucible: Finding belonging in a post corona future8
“We need long-term thinking, predictability, and reliability.” Imagined futures of the German heating and housing transition8
Integrating culture in future speculation: Speculating Chinese wedding futures8
The dysgenics objection to longtermism8
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“What have future generations ever done for us?” Future expectations and present dispositions for social-ecological transformations8
Exploring the research dynamics of futures studies: An analysis of six top journals8
Shaping the future: A conceptual review of sociotechnical imaginaries8
Securitising the future: Dystopian migration discourses in Poland and the Czech Republic8
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COVID futures: Social imaginaries of post-pandemic lives in Australia8
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
The use of foresight to anticipate and prioritise innovation system failures: The case of machine learning in broadcasting in South Korea8
Contested notions of energy justice and energy futures in struggles over tar sands development in British Columbia, Canada8
Cultural story models in making sense of a desired post-corona world8
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The interaction between justice and anticipation: Four mechanisms of reproducing injustice7
Envisioning inclusive futures: Organizational alternatives beyond the business case approach in the spectrum of utopia and dystopia7
Plausibility in models and fiction: What integrated assessment modellers can learn from an interaction with climate fiction7
The ethical motivation for post-normal science7
Futures in the present: Unraveling foreclosing and pre-opening desired futures in the local environment with a Bourdieusian perspective7
Dealing with complex and uncertain futures: Glimpses from transdisciplinary water research7
Engaging futures: Scenario visualisation for sustainable urban food sharing7
Framing artistic practices through new materialism to ensure multispecies futuring in the built environment7
Life in the shadows: Young people’s experiences of climate change futures7
Exploring trends and topics in hybrid intelligence using keyword co-occurrence networks and topic modelling7
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Brain fingerprinting: A promising future application for predicting mental illness7
An autoethnography about writing an eco-fiction on the Flemish circular economy7
How to anchor design thinking in the future: Empirical evidence on the usage of strategic foresight in design thinking projects7
A cybernetic participatory approach for policy system of systems mapping: Case study of inclusive economies7
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 hard work of reparative futures: Exploring the potential of creative and convivial practices in post-conflict Uganda7
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Metamodern futures: Prescriptions for metamodern foresight7
Understanding games as a site of utopian resonance7
Feminist urban futures: Envisioning the future of Ukrainian cities through the lens of the displaced community in Valencia (Spain)7
Energy regime reconfiguration and just transitions in the Global South: Lessons for West Africa from Morocco’s comparative experience6
Zoöp Futures: Towards an organisational framework for ecological cooperation between humans and more-than-humans6
The monstrosity of the search for extraterrestrial life: Preparing for a future discovery6
Personal and collective future thought in times of uncertainty6
Who wants a reparative future? Social mobility beliefs, and young South African’s narrative positioning within the historic moral community6
Foresight in action: A longitudinal study based on a 25-year journey in the world of policy-oriented foresight6
Disruptive technologies and future societies: Perspectives and forecasts based on Q-methodology6
Societal collapse: A literature review6
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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
Literary futures: Harnessing fiction for futures work6
The circular economy futures in the making: Transformativity and object ontologies in food waste practices in Finnish households, supermarkets and biogas plants6
Bringing the future back to the present: The role of prefiguration in European climate justice activism6
Mission accomplished? How food entrepreneurship discursively constructs futures for sustainable food6
Futuring an ‘Inclusive Knowledge Futures’ framework beyond IR theories6
A future with no individual ownership is not a happy one: Property theory shows why6
The ethics of climate generosity and the “Median Commons”: An experimental future within complexity6
Beyond linear progress: Towards a material-temporal understanding of infrastructural unmaking6
Public acceptance of post-growth: Factors and implications for post-growth strategy6
Special issue introduction: Everyday digital energy futures5
Using AI to model future societal instability5
Addressing the challenge of a “common” Future: The French contemporary mobilizations against injustice in face of the ecological and social emergencies5
Scenario generation and scenario quality using the cone of plausibility5
Future touch in industry: Exploring sociotechnical imaginaries of tactile (tele)robots5
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Shitty food-based world-making: Recasting human|microbiome relationships beyond shame and taboo5
Representing posterity: Two challenges5
Sociotechnical transitions in the system for providing beef to human food: Scenarios for cultured meat5
Extended peer communities: Creating good and fair knowledges5
Pluralizing urban futures: A multicriteria mapping analysis of online taxis in Indonesia5
Designing to elicit future affective potential: Café 20575
From the open society to the closed society: Reconsidering Popper on natural and social science5
Strategic scenario building for planning energy resources: The case of Araucania, Chile5
Consumers anticipating futures beyond the pandemic: A qualitative study5
Perceptual model for semantic representation of design futures practice cases: Towards the development of a design futures repository5
Personas in scenario building: Integrating human-centred design methods in foresight5
Futures of Outcome‐Based Contracts for industrial equipment: A Disaggregative Delphi study5
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