The importance of governance for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is
uncontested. However, the design of effective governance arrangements to initiate and …

Anticipating future biosecurity threats to prevent their occurrence is the most cost‐effective
strategy to manage invasive alien species. Yet, biological invasions are complex, highly …

Industry builds energy scenarios to help plan and prepare for future uncertainties. Scenarios
are a key mechanism for mobilising shared socio-technical imaginations to directly inform …

While sustainable innovation practice is encouraged in enterprises belonging to the
manufacturing sector for reducing their carbon footprint and mitigating negative ecological …

In an uncertain and increasingly interdependent world, cross-sectoral policy foresight is
needed to tackle complex phenomena. However, most existing foresight studies have …

Emerging technologies are increasingly portrayed as having disruptive effects in security
and defence, both in civilian and military environments. Yet, while revolutionary military …

Legislatures have recently started to invest in anticipatory governance. Alongside new
practices, they have introduced designated future committees and organs that connect MPs …

Our complex world is changing at such a pace that we are struggling to address many of the
global challenges ahead of us. As one of its symptoms, hybridisation means that fields …

This book explores why na? ve ideals about better policymaking persist even in cynical
times, revealing the careful reflection at the heart of what appears to be'magical thinking'in …

With the COVID-19 pandemic, critical questions have surfaced in several countries
regarding the capacity of the state to respond with agility to the crisis, and to use the crisis in …