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Future scenarios

Once the issues and drivers have been identified, the IMCORE approach uses the futures scenarios approach. Scenarios are special stories that portray plausible future which are designed to systematically explore, create and test possible and desirable future conditions.

They can help us to:

organise and interpret our thinking about the future;
understand how to create the conditions in which our desired future can be achieved
generate long-term policies, strategies and plans, which bring desired and likely future circumstances in closer alignment

READY - Why use future scenarios?

Future scenarios are the analytical tool most favoured for climate change adaptation planning
They work across disciplinary, departmental and institutional silos
The support decisions which are more likely to be implemented successfully
They fit naturally with human ways of processing and interpreting complex knowledge through stories and narrative
They support community-based management

STEADY - A few tips before you start

TIP 1: Balancing good timing and consultation fatigue

TIP 2: Don't get lost in the detail of the process

TIP 3: Facilitation is key

TIP 4: Explain the big picture

TIP 5: Make it visual

GO! - How to use future scenarios

Learn how to use future scenarios to develop your adaptation strategy by our illustrated step by step online course.
Download the guidelines for preparing and running a scenario workshop.
For more information about this approach you can download a literature review in its full version or a non-technical version.
Watch the videos below to listen to our partners insight on why you should use the scenarios approach, how visualisation tools can support your workshops and using the seven question technique below.


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