Assessing the future is vital in informing public policy decisions. One of the most widespread
approaches is the development of scenarios, which are alternative hypothetical futures …

Water management should preferably bring solutions that sustain even if conditions change.
In anticipating change, a sustainable plan should not only achieve economic …

The planning bureaus are knowledge institutes that provide the Dutch government with
knowledge about the present and future state of the country and how it is affected by the …

Integrative planning for water technology and infrastructure depends on various social,
behavioral and environmental factors. Since water is a common-pool resource, water …

Policy analysis has long been recognised as a core function of modern bureaucracies
(Lasswell, 1971; Meltsner, 1976; Brans et al, 2012). It consists of providing analytical support …

Despite the basic idea of scenarios as providing a heuristic for identifying, understanding
and responding to changed conditions, many scenario studies are criticized for treating the …

This article approaches policy-oriented foresight as a particular kind of evidence aimed at
supporting and developing policies. Through a comparative case study, the article …

In this paper we want to reflect on the use of toolkits as a codification strategy to fuel an
expanding practice of 'systemic design'. This critical reflection is rooted in the real‐life …

Climate change and sea-level rise projections are important factors in the estimation of
future flood risk. Recently, a large number of studies have evaluated the conditions and time …

Assessments about the nature, rate, impacts and responses to climate change deal with
change in coupled environmental-human systems. In making future projections of climate …