IF 3 3区管理学

Futures Pub Date : 2025-04-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2025.103607

Abe Hendriks , Kamilla Karhunmaa , Pierre Delvenne

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Lost at sea: Navigating entrepreneurship together in Flemish youth work 迷失在海上：在佛兰德青年工作中共同引导创业精神

IF 3 3区管理学

Futures Pub Date : 2025-04-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2025.103606

Jesse Albert Torenbosch , Jonas Merckx

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Special issue introduction: Everyday digital energy futures 特刊简介：日常数字能源未来

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Futures Pub Date : 2025-04-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2025.103598

Hannah Korsmeyer , Sarah Pink

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When socio-technical imaginaries meet the reality of adoption: Cobots in manufacturing 当社会技术想象遇到采用的现实：制造业中的协作机器人

IF 3 3区管理学

Futures Pub Date : 2025-04-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2025.103596

Greg Hearn , Nisar Ahmed Channa , Gian Luca Casali

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From Complexity to Clarity: Eden3's Novel Perspective on Limits to Growth 从复杂到清晰：《Eden3》关于增长极限的新视角

IF 3 3区管理学

Futures Pub Date : 2025-03-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2025.103597

Capucine Pierrel , Adrien Nguyen-Huu , Cédric Gaucherel

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Toward resilient urban environments: Transition pathways in nature-based solutions 迈向弹性城市环境：基于自然的解决方案的过渡路径

IF 3 3区管理学

Futures Pub Date : 2025-03-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2025.103595

A. Viljanen , C. Harju , J. Harmanen , K. Lähtinen , A. Toppinen

{"title":"Toward resilient urban environments: Transition pathways in nature-based solutions","authors":"A. Viljanen , C. Harju , J. Harmanen , K. Lähtinen , A. Toppinen","doi":"10.1016/j.futures.2025.103595","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.futures.2025.103595","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Resilient urban built environment countering environmental risks and supporting transformation into a bio-based circular economy may be fostered by nature-based solutions (NBS), e.g., innovations in green infrastructure and regenerative building materials. Our research contributes to the scarce literature within sustainability transition studies linked with research questions: 1) What factors catalyze the NBS innovation? 2) What kinds of visions and pathways for the futures of NBS are envisioned by local innovation actors? 3) How do NBS in the innovation ecosystem contribute to future urban resilience in the case cities? Our empirical data were collected in focus groups of two multi-actor workshops organized in two large Finnish cities and supplemented with 11 expert interviews in 2023. From this material, future-related pathways were created up to 2050, showing similarities across two cities regarding preferable futures to make cities greener, calmer, and more comfortable places to live. Furthermore, learning was an overreaching theme with strong connections to all other aspects of the NBS innovation ecosystem. Consequently, mainstreaming NBS is characterized with expanding the knowledge base of innovation ecosystem actors via experiments and co-creative activities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48239,"journal":{"name":"Futures","volume":"169 ","pages":"Article 103595"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143716075","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Everyday laboratories: Collective speculation and energy futures 日常实验室：集体投机和能源未来

IF 3 3区管理学

Futures Pub Date : 2025-03-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2025.103594

Farhan Samanani , Hannah Knox , Enrico Costanza , Georgia Panagiotidou , Mike Fell , Kyrill Potapov

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Profits over people: The dangers of privatizing space colonization 利益高于人民：太空殖民私有化的危险

IF 3 3区管理学

Futures Pub Date : 2025-03-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2025.103592

Rachel B. Wickenheiser

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“What have future generations ever done for us?” Future expectations and present dispositions for social-ecological transformations “子孙后代为我们做过什么？”对社会生态转型的未来期望和当前倾向

IF 3 3区管理学

Futures Pub Date : 2025-03-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2025.103593

Martin Fritz , Max Koch , Håkan Johansson , Kajsa Emilsson

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Young people envisioning desired futures through narratives of change in science education 通过科学教育的变化叙述，让年轻人展望未来

IF 3 3区管理学

Futures Pub Date : 2025-03-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2025.103591

Hanna Røkenes , Alfredo Jornet , Erik Knain

{"title":"Young people envisioning desired futures through narratives of change in science education","authors":"Hanna Røkenes , Alfredo Jornet , Erik Knain","doi":"10.1016/j.futures.2025.103591","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.futures.2025.103591","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Fostering hope in the context of the sustainability crisis requires cultivating awareness of the socio-scientific issues at stake and how the current social, technological, political, and economic systems involved in the crisis can be transformed. The ability to imagine and narrate more sustainable futures has only recently begun to receive attention in environmental and science education research. Drawing from literature discussing quality criteria for future visions, the current study advances this emerging area of research by investigating how 273 upper secondary and high school students from Norway, Italy, Germany, and Austria in science education describe their desired futures and pathways toward them. In the analysis, we explore how the narratives construe the desired futures, agency, and responsibility. The results of the study show an acknowledgment of the need to take drastic action for sustainability. In the pathways toward the future, the narratives describe cause-and-effect relationships between actors and sociopolitical structures in unidirectional and unspecified ways. We suggest that education can contribute to supporting students’ development of narratives of change by consciously enhancing students’ relational understanding of agency including its dependency on political structures and personal positioning.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48239,"journal":{"name":"Futures","volume":"169 ","pages":"Article 103591"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143685543","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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