The reflective futures practitioner: Balancing salience, credibility and legitimacy in generating foresight knowledge with stakeholders

摘要: This paper explores how foresight researchers involved in environmental, nature and planning issues attempt to balance salience, credibility legitimacy while generating knowledge interaction with policy-makers other social actors. Engaging stakeholders processes can increase the robustness of knowledge, broaden spectrum addressed, create ‘ownership’ process. While practices stakeholder participation becomes more popular resort as enabling factor for salient, legitimate credible also compromise these qualities. We analysed two projects conducted at PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, one that developed future visions Dutch policy another focused on pathways urban sustainable development policy. illustrate dynamics research setting – changes socio-political context internal participatory efforts complicated balancing conclude main challenges futures practitioners is, therefore, work within setting, position themselves strategically this setting; by acting ‘reflective practitioners’.