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The chapter discusses short-term perspectives’s inefficacy within sustainability research and practice. Large parts of the sustainability transformation will happen in a future that is characterized by worsening economic and ecological conditions, environmental and resource use conflicts, and social and ecological catastrophes. The sustainability process needs to be rethought as process that extends through different phases, with each fomenting continuous knowledge improvements and collective learning, expressly integrating short and long-term perspectives, and also applying different combinations of methods of knowledge production and application across the phases. Planning, projecting, imagining and anticipating potential futures and development paths requires radically different tools, such as scenario-writing and horizon scanning, with both of these also being combined with other cutting-edge methods in future research. |
