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  2. The speed and complexity of the technology evolution faced by modern societies need new approaches to the analysis and understanding of the world. Indeed, an exclusive focus on technological goals can miss to ...

    Authors: Riccardo Apreda, Andrea Bonaccorsi, Felice dell’Orletta and Gualtiero Fantoni
    Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2016 4:13
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  4. The perception of ocean areas by policy-makers or by people, living or not on the coast, has significantly varied over centuries. Due to its vastness and complexity, the sea has been studied within distinct ac...

    Authors: Denis Lacroix, Bernard David, Véronique Lamblin, Nicolas de Menthière, Marie de Lattre-Gasquet, Antoine Guigon, Emmanuelle Jannès-Ober, Halvard Hervieu, Françoise Potier, Gilles Ragain and Moussa Hoummady
    Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2016 4:11
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  5. The article discusses possible futures of self-organising peer-to-peer work through four transformative scenarios constructed in the Neo-Carbon Energy research project. These futures images probe the futures o...

    Authors: Juho Ruotsalainen, Sirkka Heinonen, Joni Karjalainen and Marjukka Parkkinen
    Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2016 4:10
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  7. Current governance structures are increasingly showing inability to address complex issues such as the Grand Challenges. Dealing with these highly interrelated, cross cutting, extensive and potentially open en...

    Authors: Niklas Gudowsky and Walter Peissl
    Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2016 4:8
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  8. The point of departure of the paper is that there are profound social, cultural, technological, scientific and environmental changes which occur at most local but also at global levels of the modern world. Fro...

    Authors: Jón Torfi Jónasson
    Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2016 4:7
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  10. Technologies arising out of successful high-tech mergers and acquisitions (M&A) have a significant innovation potential. However, forecasting of the possible output is coupled with uncertainties caused by misl...

    Authors: Elena Aminova
    Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2016 4:5
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  14. The key research question is to discuss and elaborate the potential value added that futures studies could provide for European citizens and political, social and economic institutions. In the article the prob...

    Authors: Andres Viia, Anu Toots, Barbara Černič Mali, Bostjan Kerbler, Erik F. Øverland, Erik Terk, Külliki Tafel-Viia, Jari Kaivo-oja, Joe Finnerty, Mairéad Considine, Richard Sendi and Silja Lassur
    Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2016 4:1
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  16. The article discusses quality criteria for futures research in the frame of so-called ‘Futures Map’. This article is the edited and developed version of the article (Futura 1: 60-77, 2015). Based on the comments ...

    Authors: Osmo Kuusi, Kerstin Cuhls and Karlheinz Steinmüller
    Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2015 3:22
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  20. This paper contributes to the recent discussion about the standards and quality of futures research. The quality criteria proposed by Kuusi (Futura 1/15, 2015) concern the internal and external validity of a f...

    Authors: Anna-Leena Vasamo
    Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2015 3:18
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  21. This elaboration will explore the epistemology of futures studies. To address this, first the logi-cal ground of epistemology has to be examined, i.e., the laws of thought and in connection to that, the mere p...

    Authors: Matthias Sonk
    Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2015 3:17
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in European Journal of Futures Research 2016 4:2

  23. The advent of fully automated road vehicles is a topic currently getting attention in the field of transport as well as futures research: the technology is assumed to radically change the way we move in the fu...

    Authors: Eva Fraedrich, Sven Beiker and Barbara Lenz
    Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2015 3:11
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  25. Certain developed countries have experienced the ‘peak car’ phenomenon. While this remains to be confirmed longitudinally, it looks certain that future mobility in Europe and elsewhere will be shaped by a part...

    Authors: Nikolas Thomopoulos and Moshe Givoni
    Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2015 3:14
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  26. In the transport sector, where change comes with inertia and investments are made with a long term perspective, decision makers need to consider how the future may look like in the very long term. The work pre...

    Authors: J. Bernardino, A. Aggelakakis, M. Reichenbach, J. Vieira, M. Boile, J. Schippl, P. Christidis, A. Papanikolaou, A. Condeco, H. Garcia and M. Krail
    Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2015 3:13
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  27. In this introduction to the topical collection on the “Future of Transport in Europe”, we argue that European transport regimes are at a turning point and despite the sector inertia, we can detect cultural, so...

    Authors: Massimo Moraglio and Hans-Liudger Dienel
    Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2015 3:12
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  28. It is widely recognized that transformation of urban areas are urgent to meet the demands for more efficient and environmental friendly transportation in the future. Although there are general agreements on th...

    Authors: Tom Erik Julsrud and Tanu Priya Uteng
    Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2015 3:10
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  29. This article discusses a possible future, in which the network society is deepening to become an internet-based ecosystemic society. The study of the possible societal impacts of the ‘media disruption’ brought...

    Authors: Juho Ruotsalainen and Sirkka Heinonen
    Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2015 3:9
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  30. A transformation of our current transport system and individual mobility behaviour is an essential pre-requisite for attaining a desirable future that enables a life within environmental boundaries (“safe oper...

    Authors: Moritz Kammerlander, Karin Schanes, Franziska Hartwig, Jill Jäger, Ines Omann and Michelle O’Keeffe
    Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2015 3:8
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  31. The analysis of Wild Cards, potential low-likelihood but high-impact events, in foresight studies is important in order to counter the tendency of decision makers to deny major surprises. This paper presents the ...

    Authors: Aharon Hauptman, Merja Hoppe and Yoel Raban
    Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2015 3:7
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  32. If the European energy and transport sectors are to meet the 2050 energy and climate policy targets, major socio-technical change (transition) is necessary. Along with new technologies, changes are required al...

    Authors: Anu Tuominen, Nina Wessberg and Anna Leinonen
    Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2015 3:6
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  33. The focus of the present paper is on the development of a methodological framework for guiding strategic decision-making towards the sustainable future development of peripheral small island regions, constitut...

    Authors: Anastasia Stratigea and Vicky Katsoni
    Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2015 3:5
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  37. This article presents a way how the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) analysis tools can be combined with the Delphi methodology, and especially with the BCG portfolio matrix analysis. The Delphi Method is one of ...

    Authors: Yrjö Myllylä and Jari Kaivo-oja
    Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2015 3:2
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  39. A desirable future critically depends on our ability to ensure the supply of key resources while simultaneously respecting planetary boundaries. This paper looks at the potential implications of living within ...

    Authors: Meghan O’Brien, Franziska Hartwig, Karin Schanes, Moritz Kammerlander, Ines Omann, Henning Wilts, Raimund Bleischwitz and Jill Jäger
    Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2014 2:48
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  43. The enduring crisis in Ukraine presents the European Union (EU) with a conundrum. Should it strengthen its economic and energy ties despite Russia’s growing assertiveness in the hope to solidify its medium ter...

    Authors: Samuel R. Schubert, Johannes Pollak and Elina Brutschin
    Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2014 2:52
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  44. Europe has been facing a multi-dimensional crisis since 2008 with a strong impact on the quality of democracy in the EU and its member states. The continuous loss of citizens’ support threatens the very existe...

    Authors: Markus Pausch
    Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2014 2:56
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  45. A foresight hub within the Directorate General Research and Innovation (DG RTD) of the European Commission will support the decision-making procedures of the EU Horizon 2020 research, technology, and innovatio...

    Authors: Jean-Claude Burgelman, Jarka Chloupková and Werner Wobbe
    Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2014 2:55
    Content type: Review Article Published on:

  46. With poverty reduction being one of the five targets of the EU 2020 process, poverty is currently high on the agenda for the European Union and the 27 Member States. The applied methodology of measuring povert...

    Authors: Helmut P. Gaisbauer and Clemens Sedmak
    Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2014 2:57
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  47. Terrorism is a clear context of rapid change, greater complexity and genuine uncertainties. A review of the events that have been going on in Europe shows a great evolution of the threat and the continuous eme...

    Authors: José María Blanco Navarro and Jéssica Cohen Villaverde
    Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2014 2:50
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  48. It is above all sociology and media theory which to an increasing extent are providing impulses for redefining the modern semantics of the concept of time. At the focus of attention here is the explication of ...

    Authors: Friederike Müller-Friemauth and Eckard Minx
    Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2014 2:47
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  49. It is argued in this paper that the intimate nature of language, as well as the intimacy of the senses, form important elements in the theory and practice of futures. Such elements tend to be sidelined as futu...

    Authors: Marcus Bussey
    Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2014 2:53
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  50. What could be the legitimation basis of the European Union (EU)? This article questions the idea of two constitution-making subjects in the EU and claim there is and can only be one constituting subject even i...

    Authors: Erik O. Eriksen
    Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2014 2:51
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