Gáspár, Judit and Köves, Alexandra and Hirvillami, Tuuli and Hideg, Éva and Ding, Jing and Márton, András and Szathmári, Attila and Kiss, Gabriella and Csuport, Zsombor and Fischer, Máté (2025) Post-growth Futures Report. Project Report. Corvinus University of Budapest.
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This report presents the key findings and methodological innovations from Task 1.2 in the ‘Models, Assessment, and Policies for Sustainability’ (MAPS) research project. In a field – like post-growth - where radically new approaches are needed to invent solutions to complex problems in order to multiply the chances of moving away from undesirable pathways, foresight becomes crucial. As our social imaginaries shape the cultural, economic, and social institutions, in order to move away from searching solutions merely within dominant paradigms, we need to enrich our imaginaries and see what is desirable, undesirable, or overall possible in our futures. Negative scenarios warn us of treacherous trends and tendencies, positive ones enable us to open our minds towards new potentialities and others show us how even with the best of intentions, focusing on just a few interventions without holistic understanding may still lead us to partly undesirable futures. To explore such diverse economic, technological, and societal futures, the task adopted integrated foresight methods, combining horizon scanning, scenario-building, and the E-Delphi process. Integrated foresight has been developed as a methodological response to the challenges of foresight in the 21st century with increased societal demands for sustainability, democratic participation, and knowledge integration. In this context, foresight activities should deal with sudden and complex changes by involving a wide range of experts and stakeholders.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Project Report) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | sustainability transformation; degrowth/post-growth; |
| Divisions: | Corvinus Doctoral Schools Institute of Sustainable Development Institute of Operations and Decision Sciences |
| Subjects: | Ecology Environmental economics |
| Funders: | European Union’s Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Programme |
| Projects: | 101137914 - Models, Assessment, and Policies for Sustainability (MAPS) |
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| Deposited By: | Erzsó Nyitrai |
| Deposited On: | 04 Dec 2025 09:21 |
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