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Participative backcasting: A tool for involving stakeholders in local sustainability planning
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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.About:
This article is published in Futures.The article was published on 2008-02-01. It has received 214 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Backcasting & Sustainability.read more
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Urban Transition Labs: co-creating transformative action for sustainable cities
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the Urban Transition Labs (UTL) as settings in which real life trajectories of sustainable development in cities are deployed and at the same time carefully observed; in a co-creative collaboration between actors and researchers (transdisciplinary research).
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Backcasting for sustainability: Introduction to the special issue
Philip J. Vergragt,Jaco Quist +1 more
TL;DR: The special issue on Backcasting for Sustainability as mentioned in this paper introduces a historical background, and position backcasting in the wider context of future studies, in which it can be related to "normative forecasting" and normative scenarios.
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Envisioning sustainability: Recent progress in the use of participatory backcasting approaches for sustainability research
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe recent progress in the utilization of participatory scenario-based backcasting approaches to sustainability research that blend quantitative and qualitative analyses in order to explore alternative climate change futures, as undertaken in a range of academic, government and private sector projects in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, Canada.
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Participatory Scenario Planning for Protected Areas Management under the Ecosystem Services Framework: the Doñana Social-Ecological System in Southwestern Spain
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the social perceptions regarding the conditions, trends, trade-offs, and future of ecosystem services and human well-being, and sought management strategies for the Donana social-ecological system and its protected areas.
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Combining participative backcasting and exploratory scenario development: Experiences from the SCENES project
TL;DR: This paper analyses the method and results of combining a backcasting methodology and exploratory scenario development process to develop scenarios at pan-European level and hopes to have demonstrated that it is conceptually appealing, methodologically feasible, and practically useful to combine exploratory scenarios development and backcasting analysis.
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Scenario types and techniques: Towards a user's guide
TL;DR: The applicability of various generating, integrating and consistency techniques for developing scenarios that provide the required knowledge in order to develop and use scenarios is discussed.
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Making Strategy: The Journey of Strategic Management
Colin Eden,Fran Ackermann +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a much-needed guide to the strategy-making process by elaborating the key concepts and theories of strategic management; illustrating through case vignettes the issues inherent in the process of strategy making; and providing extensive and detailed practical guidelines on the methods, techniques and tools employed in the case-vignettes.
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The Year 2000: A Framework for Speculation on the Next Thirty-Three Years,
Anthony J. Wiener,Herman Kahn +1 more
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Essence of backcasting
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.