Research story | 2024-05-22

New database highlights scenarios for planet and people

What are possible futures of the biosphere? This Biodiversity Day, we take a closer look at a database that provides unique perspectives into how communities around the world see and envision the future of our planet: Biosphere Futures.

Research news | 2024-01-16

Imagining pathways towards desirable futures

Every day, people plan for the future, but having structured thoughts about what futures could look like is a skill we should all practice in the face of the Anthropocene, according to recent research

Research news | 2022-09-01

New book “Earth For All: a survival guide for humanity”

Landmark global analysis sets out survival pathways for humanity

Research news | 2022-08-24

Applying the Nature Futures Framework to the real world

Lessons from The Netherlands reveal big potential to find common ground for actions towards positive futures

Research news | 2022-02-02

Scientists quantify sustainable development targets for 2030 and 2050

New efforts can help improve scenario planning and forecasting of global economic development based on the Sustainable Development Goals

Research news | 2021-11-23

Resilient futures in the Bahamas

New study on Andros Island in the Bahamas shows the power of using scenarios for sustainable development planning

Research news | 2021-06-23

Better scenario building can help curb global threat of invasive species

Invasive species remain largely ignored in current future analyses. Experts present first set ever of alternative futures for global biological invasions

Research news | 2021-03-22

Science fiction can help get Africa back on the map

Positive narratives from Africa rarely appear in stories about the future. Can African futurism help change things?

Research news | 2020-09-24

Creating pathways to futures where people and nature support one another

Humanity relies on nature in a wide variety of ways. Opening up a diversity of perspectives is critical to identify pathways towards desirable futures

Research news | 2020-05-18

A single climate event could trigger worldwide wheat shortages

How a modern-day US Dust Bowl event could disrupt global food trade networks

Research news | 2020-03-18

Four positive future visions of southern Africa

Researchers, practitioners and artists present previously unimagined ways of thinking about sustainability futures in the region

Research news | 2019-10-12

Building a national park for the future

Centre researchers lead workshop on the development of a new national park in the Netherlands using novel scenario framework

Research news | 2019-10-04

Imagine the future

Six characteristics necessary to make scenario processes more inclusive and able to address complex and context-specific problems

Research news | 2019-04-02

The sum of single perspectives

New method flips conventional methods on scenarios on its head, creating narratives based on a variety of single, often conflicting perspectives. That generates a more realistic understanding of a complex world

Research news | 2019-01-24

Model behaviour

Mathematical models are essential in the quest to better understand the human impact on the world’s ecosystems. Lake Victoria may hold the cues

Research news | 2017-04-25

How social-ecological research works

Special issue in the journal Ecology & Society on the sustainable stewardship of social-ecological systems

Research news | 2016-09-26

Marine science through the eyes of sci-fi

Former PhD student turns to sci-fi to envision the future of our oceans

Research news | 2016-02-29

Breaking new ground

Centre’s approach to social-ecological systems helps support UN biodiversity assessment

Research news | 2016-01-18

Setting the social-ecological scene for the future

Participatory scenario planning allows people to tackle complex environmental problems, but improvement needed

Research news | 2013-11-18

There's a reason why they are called experts

Scenario planning yielding no different results than those of expert opinions