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Backcasting
About: Backcasting is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 673 publications have been published within this topic receiving 18685 citations.
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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.
752 citations
TL;DR: The most recent version of the Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development (FSSD) as discussed by the authors has been developed for the purpose of supporting scientific and technical research in the field of sustainable development.
622 citations
TL;DR: A general framework to plan for sustainability and then relate it to some well-known tools for sustainable development is presented and metrics should measure alignment of activities with the principles contained in a framework for sustainability.
581 citations
TL;DR: Backcasting is a planning methodology that is particularly helpful when problems at hand are complex and when present trends are part of the problems When applied in planning towards sustainability, backcasting can increase the likelihood of handling the ecologically complex issues in a systematic and coordinated way, and also to foresee certain changes, even from a self-beneficial point of view, of the market and increase the chances of a relatively strong economic performance as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Backcasting is a planning methodology that is particularly helpful when problems at hand are complex and when present trends are part of the problems When applied in planning towards sustainability, backcasting can increase the likelihood of handling the ecologically complex issues in a systematic and coordinated way, and also to foresee certain changes, even from a self-beneficial point of view, of the market and increase the chances of a relatively strong economic performance To that end, backcasting should be performed from a set of non-overlapping principles that are general enough to be helpful in the coordination of different sectors of society and in business, as well as to cover relevant aspects of sustainability Such principles are helpful when developing reliable non-overlapping indicators for monitoring of the development when coordinating various measures from different sectors of the society or within individual firms with each other, and when handling trade-offs in a relevant way Further
532 citations
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a backcasting methodology for scenario analysis of changes over 20-100 years into the future, which can be applied to areas of human activity; here it is assumed that the method will be used to analyse environment and development problems at the national level as part of studies undertaken within the Human Dimensions of Global Change Program.
445 citations
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| Year | Papers |
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| 2025 | 26 |
| 2024 | 22 |
| 2023 | 25 |
| 2022 | 34 |
| 2021 | 39 |
| 2020 | 43 |