The Future Is Made. Imagining Feasible Food and Farming Futures in an Unpredictable World

摘要: In land system science, the issue of use competition is often explored in context future scenarios agro-food system. While science shares its research topic with so-called studies, there little communication between these two strands research. order to explore reasons for this communicative divide and how it could be bridged, we first critically examine ontological foundations futures studies arguing that they (a) tend have a global remote, rather than place-specific perspective, (b) typically consider biophysical constraints via according models (c) build on an “economistic” understanding social relations, insofar as complex relations are represented by economic model. This makes difficult relate from mostly place-specific, participatory science-based perspective provide. Still, conclude while benefit more profit translating considerations scenario thinking into perspective. The chapters section show some fruitful approaches, which take up without losing sight well cross-scalar interactions.