Making cities sustainable is a global commitment. Achieving sustainability in cities demands
novel, integrative, and innovative approaches that enable communities to collaboratively …

The objective of this paper is to review how Science and Technology Studies (STS) has
contributed to climate change mitigation research. We focus on large‐scale infrastructures …

The sociology of technological expectations examines, amongst other questions, the way in
which expectations of new technologies help to mobilise or hinder commitment and …

A number of thematic scenarios have been developed for envisioning sustainable futures in
order to support strategic decision-making for government and industry. However …

The concept of resilience is a crucial part in crafting visions of desirable futures designed to
withstand the widest variety of external shocks to the system. Backcasting scenarios are …

Community-based ecotourism (CBET) has become a popular strategy to alleviate the
contradiction between ecological protection and community development. As the …

This paper presents the results of an innovative pilot experiment on elaborating
transformative energy scenarios by using a causal layered analysis (CLA) game. CLA is an …

When developing a sustainable local energy system, it is useful to apply backcasting to help
select an appropriate renewable energy mix based on an evaluation by diverse …

Designing backcasting scenarios is a powerful approach to the development of sustainable
visions and pathways for governments or enterprises in the early stage of their policy …

Serious gaming is an interdisciplinary and co-creative research methodology, which allows
participants to proactively engage in role-playing and co-creating strategies. During the …