Rethinking scenario building for sustainable futures: mobilizing conscientização, social learning and knowledge co-production

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/26395916.2025.2507247" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/26395916.2025.2507247</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/26395916.2025.2507247" target="_blank" >10.1080/26395916.2025.2507247</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Rethinking scenario building for sustainable futures: mobilizing conscientização, social learning and knowledge co-production

Original language description

Scenario building is a powerful tool for evaluating drivers of environmental change and assessing alternative socioecological pathways, helping integrate science-based information into decisionnmaking. Nonetheless, this potential has not been fully embraced by scientists and decision-makers, in part owing to limitations of current scenario frameworks at representing the diversity of values for nature and potential transformative changes to bend the biodiversity loss curve. There is still a need to further develop scientists’ capacities to include a transdisciplinary perspective in scenario building to address the drivers of transformative change. This paper addressesthese needs by reflecting on the role of scientists engaged in scenario building in the construction of sustainable futures through the lens of three key concepts: social learning, knowledge co-production and conscientização (a Portuguese term meaning to build sociopolitical awareness and take action). Drawing on a survey of participants of a Scenario Building School and a literature review, we suggest that scientists require ncapacity building to leverage these concepts together for the construction of transformative futures. This includes addressing power imbalances, improving inclusive and transdisciplinary participatory methods, reaching consensus and promoting action. We recommend that scientists engaged in scenario building focus on fostering transformative changes, challenging mainstream storylines, embracing diversity and addressing inequalities to pursue sustainable futures.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10511 - Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)

Project

<a href="/en/project/TL02000520" target="_blank" >TL02000520: Landscape cultural ecosystem services assessment and mapping</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Ecosystems and People

ISSN

2639-5908

e-ISSN

2639-5916

Volume of the periodical

21

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

21

Pages from-to

2507247

UT code for WoS article

001514473200001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-105009262448