Kunseler, E-M;
Tuinstra, W;
Vasileiadou, E;
Petersen, AC;
(2015)
The reflective futures practitioner: Balancing salience, credibility and legitimacy in generating foresight knowledge with stakeholders.
Futures
, 66
pp. 1-12.
10.1016/j.futures.2014.10.006.
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Abstract
This paper explores how foresight researchers involved in environmental, nature and planning issues attempt to balance salience, credibility and legitimacy while generating knowledge in interaction with policy-makers and other social actors. Engaging stakeholders in foresight processes can increase the robustness of foresight knowledge, broaden the spectrum of issues addressed, and create ‘ownership’ of the process. While in foresight practices stakeholder participation becomes more and more popular to resort to as enabling factor for generating salient, legitimate and credible foresight knowledge, participation can also compromise these qualities. We analysed two foresight projects conducted at the PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, one that developed future visions for Dutch nature policy and another that focused on future pathways for Dutch urban sustainable development policy. We illustrate that the dynamics of the research setting – changes in the socio-political context and the internal dynamics of the participatory efforts – complicated the balancing process. We conclude that one of the main challenges for futures practitioners is, therefore, to work within the dynamics of the research setting, and to position themselves strategically in this setting; by acting as ‘reflective futures practitioners’.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The reflective futures practitioner: Balancing salience, credibility and legitimacy in generating foresight knowledge with stakeholders |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.futures.2014.10.006 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2014.10.006 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2015. This manuscript version is published under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Non-derivative 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). This licence allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work for personal and non-commercial use providing author and publisher attribution is clearly stated. Further details about CC BY licences are available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0. |
| Keywords: | Foresight practice, Salience, Credibility, Legitimacy, Stakeholder participation, Reflective practitioner |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > STEaPP |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1456313 |
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