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.. problematizing or even diverging from current power structures to provide society with a broader picture of which socio-ecological futures are possible and which are impossible.

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They encourage future research on refining and quantifying existing “post-capitalist, post-state-centric and/or ecocentric scenarios” and developing more diverse, pluralistic scenarios, ...

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The authors deplore the lack of alternative scenarios that would portray “explicit drivers of change or pathways to desirable futures”.

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In this context, the main “solutions” invoked in response to sustainability challenges largely follow business-as-usual strategies: a combination of continuous economic growth, technological progress and international agreements.

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The underlying assumptions, though rarely discussed, portray an anthropocentric worldview and assume continuity in global capitalism and current state-based governance system.

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Their analysis revealed important biases and path dependencies. They found that “global environmental scenarios developed and used by the scientific community largely reproduce rather than break with dominant power structures in the economic, governance and cultural domain”.

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The team paid closer attention to the economic and organization assumptions reflected in the scenarios, as well as the portrayed human-nature relationships, which are not always at the forefront of anticipatory work.

1/8 What assumptions and ideologies are represented in projected environmental futures?

In a paper published last October, a team of researchers from the University of Valladolid analyzed the ideological assumptions of 993 global environmental scenarios contained in 243 academic works.