GeoVerse Lab
← Economics, Policy & Strategy Division

Future Studies & Technology Foresight Center

Conducts foresight analysis and scenario planning for emerging energy technologies and societal transformations, using horizon scanning, Delphi surveys, and sociotechnical systems analysis to anticipate future energy landscapes.

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Research Fields 16
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πŸ—³οΈ Delphi Method & Structured Expert Elicitation
The Delphi method is a structured procedure for eliciting and refining judgement from a pa…
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🧭 Scenario Planning
Scenario planning is the disciplined construction and use of a small set of internally con…
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πŸ”­ Technology Forecasting & Systems Design for the Future
Technological forecasting is the disciplined estimation of the probable invention, develop…
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πŸ“š Foundations of Futures Studies (Futurology)
The foundations of futures studies concern the status, possibility and purpose of systemat…
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🌍 Limits to Growth & Global System Dynamics Modeling
Global system dynamics applies feedback-system simulation to the Earth as a whole, couplin…
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πŸ‡«πŸ‡· La Prospective (French School of Strategic Foresight)
La prospective is the French tradition of future-oriented study founded in the 1950s by th…
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πŸ”— Cross-Impact Analysis
Cross-impact analysis is a family of methods for reasoning about a set of possible future …
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〰️ Long-Wave Theory & Energy Transition Cycles
Long-wave theory holds that capitalist economies display regular oscillations of roughly f…
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πŸ’§ Hydrogen Economy Foresight
Hydrogen economy foresight analyses the prospects of hydrogen as a universal energy carrie…
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πŸ›°οΈ Space Futures & Space Resource Utilization
Space futures research analyses the long-term prospects of human activity beyond Earth β€” s…
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β˜€οΈ Fusion Energy Futures
Fusion energy foresight concerns the prospects of power from controlled nuclear fusion β€” t…
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🧠 Management Cybernetics & Sociotechnical Systems Foresight
Management cybernetics applies the science of control and communication β€” feedback, regula…
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βš–οΈ Technology Assessment
Technology assessment (TA) is the systematic analysis of the intended and unintended socia…
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πŸ”† Solar Energy & Renewable Transition Visioning
Solar energy transition studies concern the visioning, assessment and pathway planning of …
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πŸƒ Wild Cards & Discontinuity Analysis
Wild card analysis is the foresight practice of systematically identifying events that are…
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🧊 Morphological Analysis & Combinatorial Foresight
Morphological analysis is a method for structuring problems too complex for quantification…