Article ID: CBB589179620

Closing the Future: Environmental Research and the Management of Conflicting Future Value Orders (2019)

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This paper examines a struggle over the future use of Nordic forests, which took place from 2009 to 2012 within a major research program, Future Forests—Sustainable Strategies under Uncertainty and Risk, organized and funded by Mistra, The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research. We explore the role of strategic environmental research in societal constructions of long-term challenges and future risks. Specifically, we draw attention to the role played by environmental research in the creation of future images that become dominant for how societies structure action for the long term. We also show that this process is on several accounts problematic. Research labeled “strategic” or “relevant” is intended to manage long-term risks and challenges in a sustainable way, by taking into account the “open” and “plural” nature of the future. The case of Future Forests suggests, rather, that by contributing to the emergence of dominant future images, environmental research is entangled with a process of gradual consensus creation around what may be highly selective or biased narratives of the long term, which may conceal or postpone key forms of future conflict.

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Authors & Contributors
Henry, Emmanuel
Prudham, Scott
Rijcke, Sarah de
JafariNaimi, Nassim
Kris Hartley
Greenhough, Beth
Concepts
Governance
Power (social sciences)
Technoscience; science and technology studies
Science and politics
Expertise
Environment
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
Places
Hong Kong
United States
Sweden
China
Canada
India
Institutions
National Cancer Institute (U.S.)
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