Creating Futures

Further Resources

 

Workshops

Future Proof Workshops - July 2010 to February 2011

  1. FP Urban Sprawl Scenarios - feedback on WISE and Deliberation (ppt)
  2. FP Urban Sprawl Scenarios - Questions & Answers (spreadsheet)

Waikato Prototype Model/SDSS - December 2008 Workshops

Waikato Futures Symposium: Creating a sustainable economic future - July 2008

 

Futures

The Millennium Project: Global Futures Studies & Research

Earth Trends - World Resources Institute: Earth Trends is a comprehensive online database, maintained by the World Resources Institute, that focuses on the environmental, social, and economic trends that shape our world.

 

Scenarios

Field Guide to the Future: Four Ways for Communities to Think Ahead - A practical, step-by-step manual describing methods that can help communities think ahead and prepare for changes in their environment.  The four methods described are: Scenarios, Visioning, Pathways and Projections. 

Work in Progress - Four Futures for New Zealand (Landcare Research) - These scenarios are of use to local government, central ministries, larger businesses, schools and community groups, to support strategic and outcome planning, and to stimulate thinking about change-drivers, opportunities and risks. Work In Progress is intended to stimulate debate on what kind of future New Zealand would like to choose. 

WBCSD Water Scenarios to 2025 - The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) developed the 'H2O Scenarios' as a starting point to understand and take effective action in the rapidly changing world of water. 

Marine Scenarios - Alternative Future Scenarios for Marine Ecosystems - The goal of this study was to encourage debate about alternative futures for marine ecosystems, and to develop a series of future scenarios that can be used for strategic planning. 

Intelligent Infrastructure Futures, The Scenarios - Towards 2055 (Office of Science and Technology, UK) - The report describes four scenarios and related 'systems maps' that were developed to investigate how science and technology might be applied to infrastructure over the next 50 years. 

An Abrupt Climate Change Scenario and its Impacts for US National Security

Energy Scenarios to 2050 (World Energy Council) - The scenarios have been developed to span the range of more or less government engagement, and more or less global integration/cooperation.  

Future Currents - Electricity Scenarios for New Zealand 2005-2050 (Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment)  

Futures Thinking > about landscapes, lifestyles and livelihoods in Australia (Australian Government, Land&WaterAustralia)The purpose of this document is to build capacity for futures thinking by building on existing knowledge and past effort to provide easy accessible background information on past trends and possible future change, to imagine future challenges and what is needed to be prepared for them.

 

Deliberation Processes

The Deliberation Matrix - a three-dimensional Deliberation Matrix, or “Cube”, as a framework for presentation of the judgements offered by each stakeholder class should offer a judgement (e.g., satisfactory, poor, intolerable, etc.) of each scenario in relation to each of the key governance or decision issues.

 

Spatial Modelling 

Research Institute for Knowledge systems - RIKS has been producing software tools to support planners by allowing them to test and analyse the outcomes of potential decisions.

Our tools consist of a range of computational models that are integrated together to form a Spatial Decision Support System. For this the GEONAMICA® software framework is used. These systems use these models to provide a view as to what can happen in the future. Scenarios can be easily created to test intervention decisions.

 

Local Government Planning

Planning Under Co-operative Mandates: This on-going research programme on Planning Under Co-operative Mandates (PUCM) focuses on the New Zealand Government's goal of sustainable development through local government.

Choosing Futures Waikato: Choosing Futures Waikato is a joint project of regional and local government in the Waikato, and is about defining what we want the region to be and working together to achieve this. Choosing Futures Waikato is about the future well-being of the community.

Local Futures: Local Futures is a five year research project funded by the Foundation for Research, Science and Technology (FRST). The project's goal is to enhance knowledge about the theory and practice of strategic policy and planning in New Zealand, and to assist in building strategic capacity and capability in the sector.