Papers

Urban mobility is facing an increased long-term uncertainty and complexity generated by accelerated technological development. These challenges require radical advancement in planning processes and methods, which could enable breaking out of path dependencies and unlocking alternative, sustainable futures. In order to provide a landscape overview of foresight-focused methods used in the domain of urban mobility, we conduct a systematic literature review. An analytical framework for review is based on planning knowledge taxonomy, including dialectic between knowing how/what and knowing to what end and doing. Such framework formulation is aiming to assess methodological capacity for widening system boundary and holism (object-focus) as well as integration and imagination (process-focus). Results show that the overall trend of methodological development is emphasizing development in object or process-focus domain, but rarely both. In addition to this assessment, we conclude that methodological development should further reflect the moral and democratic dimension concerning public deliberation. Such development should aim to create spaces for shared discussion, reflection, and formation of alternative futures, while allowing spaces for agonistic contestation and conflicting opinions through radical, experimental, and experiential approaches.

Nature Water - The concept that planting trees will help mitigate climate change by storing CO2 is too simplistic, ignoring the large effect that plants have on the water cycle. Careful restoration...

Developmental perspectives represent an underutilized area of animal personality research, in spite of their obvious importance in biology. Animals that undergo metamorphosis are particularly neglected and represent a unique in situ experimental opportunity to study how personality differences are associated with physiological, morphological, or ecological traits over development.

A group of neurons in the hypothalamus has a critical inhibitory effect on the retention of memory.

Orientation towards the common good is considered as a building block of social cohesion and has been shown to benefit both social communities and the…

Physical laws—such as the laws of motion, gravity, electromagnetism, and thermodynamics—codify the general behavior of varied macroscopic natural s...

New research suggests artificial intelligence can match the top 1% of human thinkers on a standard test for creativity.

Nature Energy - Established climate mitigation scenarios assume continued economic growth in all countries, and reconcile this with the Paris targets by betting on speculative technological change....

Degrowth lacks a theory of how the state can finance ambitious social-ecological policies and public provisioning systems while maintaining macroecono…

This contribution to the Futures Triangle special edition aims to open dialogue with the reader about what lies ahead for the Futures Triangle method and Future...

DiVA portal is a finding tool for research publications and student theses written at the following 50 universities and research institutions.

Many feedback loops significantly increase warming due to greenhouse gas emissions. However, not all of these feedbacks are fully accounted for in climate models. Thus, associated mitigation pathways could fail to sufficiently limit temperatures. A targeted expansion of research and an accelerated reduction of emissions are needed to minimize risks.

A severe bottleneck that brought human ancestors close to extinction occurred between about 930 and 813 thousand years ago.

Low honesty-humility is a broad indicator of the common core of dark personality traits. The toxic career model explains how dark personalities succes…

The digitization of the Broadband Society is generating a profound debate on access to users’ browsing and personal data. An axis of controversy is the case of mobile telephony. Many people suspect that smartphones record users’ conversations …

Graeme S. Cumming ¹, David H. M. Cumming ², Charles L. Redman ³, Scale Mismatches in Social-Ecological Systems, Ecology and Society, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Jun 2006)

Nature Sustainability - As an alternative to monetary estimates, this study expresses the costs of climate change in terms of numbers of people left outside the ‘human climate niche’,...

This article argues that Russian intelligence has achieved recent success in influencing democratic elections and referenda by combining the traditional Human Intelligence (HUMINT) discipline of ma...

Moving towards a circular economy (CE) has become one of the main strategic initiatives on a global scale in the search for sustainable economic syste…

In the current debate on the causes, consequences and solutions for the climate crisis, it will be argued that the hegemonic discourse of the Anthropocene implies a problematic anthropological, eco...

We call for coupling degrowth with urban studies and planning agendas as an academically salient and politically urgent endeavour. Our aim is threefold: to expl...

Today’s Russian war against Ukraine is unique in its unfolding through a prism of personalized realities, made and remade for individuals, in what we call the “...

Behavior Research Methods - The spread of online conspiracy theories represents a serious threat to society. To understand the content of conspiracies, here we present the language of conspiracy...