Karl Henrik Dreborg

TL;DR: Backcasting studies typically aim at providing policy makers and an interested general public with images of the future as a background for opinion forming and decisions as discussed by the authors. And if one is inclined to see teleology as a specific form of understanding, beside causality, then backcasting becomes interesting.

TL;DR: In this paper, a backcasting approach with local stakeholders in five European cities where several Images of the Future were formulated for household consumption in sustainable cities was used to find methods for inspiring local stakeholders to participate in discussions about sustainability with a long-term perspective.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a tailor-made scenario approach for climate change adaptation planning, which emphasises involvement of stakeholders in the development of socioeconomic scenarios and relates to the planning situation and interest of the planning entity.

TL;DR: This paper develops a systematic methodology, Scenario Diversity Analysis (SDA), which addresses the problems of broad span vs conservatism and imbalance, and generates scenario sets where the scenarios are in a quantifiable sense maximally different.

TL;DR: In this paper, four basic principles are proposed for decision guidance on the coevolution of society and potentially disruptive technologies, and none of the four principles are considered in this paper.