Dear Colleagues,

The topic of this Special Issue of Sustainability will be on “Foresight Methodologies in Sustainability Analyses”. This Special Issue aims to combine the themes of sustainability analysis with foresight research. The shared understanding of long-term issues requires some kinds of foresight analyses and transition analyses. There are various special fields of foresight: Technology foresight, science and technology policy foresight, corporate foresight, national foresight, market foresight and various forms of socio-cultural foresight. Foresight studies are conventionally linked to STEEPV domains: Social systems, technological systems, economic systems, environmental systems, political systems and value systems. All the foresight activities aim to foresee future tendencies or futures of these systemic domains of reality. Typically, foresight activity includes three phases: diagnosis, prognosis and prescriptions. Foresight studies aim to help decision-makers in various complex situations, where strategic or visionary decisions are needed. Visions, mission and strategies can be linked to the challenges of sustainable development, e.g., to sustainable development goals. The Special Issue aims to cover current research activities linked to future-oriented sustainability research for systemic foresight approach.

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• Sustainable Development
• Big history and anticipation of sustainable development
• Future anticipatory practices of sustainability
• Long waves and sustainable development
• Foresight theories and sustainable development
• Foresight methods
• Scanning and benchmarking methods of sustainability
• Sustainability indicators
• Futures oriented decision-making
• Scenarios of sustainability
• Trends and simulations of sustainable development
• Visions of sustainability
• Weak signal analysis of potential positive or negative sustainability developments
• Risky Wild Cards of sustainability
• Responsible decision-making
• Futures of green economy
• Green development transitions
• Foresight linked to resilience analysis
• Risk analysis in sustainability processes
• Resilience foresight
• Change management of sustainability