Search for dissertations about: "futures studies"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 74 swedish dissertations containing the words futures studies.
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1. Making Futures : On Targets, Measures and Governance in Backcasting and Planning
Abstract : This thesis is about the making of futures – in the sense of planning, through which the world of tomorrow is crafted, and in the sense of images of the future, developed through the futures studies approach of backcasting. The point of departure for the thesis is that more visionary and strategic forms of planning are needed if the challenges of sustainable development are to be met, and that backcasting, through its long-term, integrative and normative character, can be a helpful tool towards this end. READ MORE
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2. Reef Futures : Exploring the dynamics of transformative change in marine social-ecological systems
Abstract : The thesis explores issues relating to transformative change in the context of marine governance in the Coral Triangle, and the effects of such change processes on policy, stakeholder relations and management activities. Paper 1 studies how change-oriented actors (institutional entrepreneurs) operating at the international level can introduce and purposefully navigate large-scalechange processes. READ MORE
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3. Of Imagined and Potential Futures : Speculative Fiction in Southern Africa, 2008-2018
Abstract : This research project explores the rhetorical function of contemporary Anglophone speculative fiction (sf) in southern Africa. Focusing on short fiction produced between 2008 and 2018, the project delineates this literary production both theoretically and historically. READ MORE
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4. Sharing the doughnut : Exploring sustainable and just futures
Abstract : Despite decades of international discussions or summits on the need to radically reduce e.g. increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases (GHGs) or biodiversity loss, these are still rising. READ MORE
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5. Approaching transformative futures : Discourse and practice in Swedish national transport policy and planning
Abstract : This thesis concerns the need to transform the transport system to meet climate mitigation objectives. It provides insights into how specific approaches and practices in transport policy and planning affect prospects for transformation. READ MORE