The 2024 state of the climate report: Perilous times on planet Earth

WJ Ripple, C Wolf, JW Gregg, J Rockström… - …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
We are on the brink of an irreversible climate disaster. This is a global emergency beyond
any doubt. Much of the very fabric of life on Earth is imperiled. We are step** into a critical …

Population and food systems: what does the future hold?

S Becker, J Fanzo - Population and Environment, 2023 - Springer
The ability of food systems to feed the world's population will continue to be constrained in
the face of global warming and other global challenges. Often missing from the literature on …

Challenges and opportunities in the use of nature-based solutions for urban adaptation

S Castelo, M Amado, F Ferreira - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
The concept of nature-based solutions (NbS) has been endorsed by multiple international
organizations as one of the priority approaches to address climate-related challenges …

The human ecology of overshoot: why a major 'population correction'is inevitable

WE Rees - World, 2023 - mdpi.com
Homo sapiens has evolved to reproduce exponentially, expand geographically, and
consume all available resources. For most of humanity's evolutionary history, such …

The Fragile State of industrial agriculture: Estimating crop yield reductions in a global catastrophic infrastructure loss scenario

J Moersdorf, M Rivers, D Denkenberger… - Global …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Modern civilization relies on a complex, globally interconnected industrial agriculture system
to produce food. Its unprecedented yields hinge on external inputs like machinery, fertilizers …

The story of futures studies: An interdisciplinary field rooted in social sciences

T Kristóf, E Nováky - Social Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
This article presents the almost century-long history of the development of futures studies in
a comprehensive review. Futures studies, rooted in sociology and policy sciences, had …

Social policy in a future of degrowth? Challenges for decommodification, commoning and public support

K Kongshøj - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Achieving sustainability within planetary boundaries requires radical changes to production
and consumption beyond technology-and efficiency-oriented solutions, especially in affluent …

Map** archetype scenarios across the three horizons

A Hines, H Benoit, L Leong, D Worrell, L Schlehuber… - Futures, 2024 - Elsevier
The purpose of this paper is to suggest that map** of archetype scenarios onto the three
horizons could provide a useful starting point for understanding change in a domain. It was …

Development tendencies and turning points of futures studies

T Kristóf - European Journal of Futures Research, 2024 - Springer
In honor of its 50th anniversary, the World Futures Studies Federation (WFSF) held its XXV
World Conference in Paris. The conference provided a venue for reviewing earlier …

Doughnuts for strategies: A tool for an emerging sustainable welfare paradigm

M Domazet, M Fischer, A Köves - European Journal of …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
The Degrowth Doughnut (a modification of the original Doughnut visualization of boundaries
and foundations created by economist Kate Raworth) can be considered a visualization tool …