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SUSTAIN-ABILITY
"Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs".
Sustainability it is NOT just cool adjective used to maintain the status quo with a superficial green wash, but needs a profound change in mind frame and thinking: multidisciplinary, holistic, systemic, futurist.
Sustainability is not a punishment or just a constrain but the trigger to foster radical innovation and better life conditions.
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FUTURE
Future dynamics can both prepare foresight analysis and future images, and facilitate participative future scenario and planning processes through the use of different tools and methods
Forecasting: analysing present trends and drivers impact on the long term
Envisioning: to foster innovation through the creative process to predict the unforeseeable
Backcasting: a planning process to match current trends with best desirable futures.
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GOVERNANCE
Governance through participation is a key both for achieving sustainable development and to design effective and efficient processes, giving complex and inspiring input and increasing the commitment of the stakeholders that affect and are affected by the process.
Thereby we can provide:
Design and facilitate participation processes, both public or restricted.
Analysis and management of stakeholders involved in the participation process.
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EVALUATION
Future Dynamics works with integrated evaluation of sustainability for policies, plans, projects and products:
-Ex post, performing impact assessment and defining follow up activities
-In itinere, monitoring the process development
-Ex ante, evaluating possible alternatives and impacts at different time scale.
We can also provide evaluations under the frame of EIA, Environmental Impact Assessment and SEA, Strategic Environmental Assessment
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INNOVATION & CREATIVITY
Innovation is an essential factor in the realisation of sustainable development.
Sustainable innovation is a new challenge and a great opportunity for organisations both for products and process design, particularly in relation to CSR (corporate social responsibility) and urban sustainability.
Future Dynamics can give support building the knowledge infrastructure and learning processes to trigger and to develop innovation and creativity for sustainability
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SYSTEM THINKING
A systems restructure and re-thinking of our knowledge it is needed to manage the rapidly increasing challenges we are facing and their intrinsic unpredictability. System thinking it is particularly relevant for decision making, analysing the feedback loops between the system parts to understand the complex and dynamic behaviour of the systems framed in a contextual relation.
System thinking methodology and system dynamics tools are indispensable to move toward sustainability
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DECISION MAKING
Decision making in sustainable development issues is particularly uncertain because it is dealing with multiple time (short and long term) and multiple scales ( from global to local), and furthermore complex because it has to deal both with trends/drivers and the set of values of the decision makers themselves. For these reason decision making for sustainable development needs to evaluate all possible alternatives in a systemic, multidisciplinary and integrated way. Future Dynamics can facilitate such complex decision making processes.
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URBAN SUSTAINABILITY
Urban areas are the centre of human activity where it is more concentrated the consumption of resources (energy and materials) and the production of residues and pollutants. At the same time, cities are the core of social development and of the economic activity, as well as they are the milieu with the greatest potential for innovation and creativity.
The pathways toward sustainability pass through its cities, through plans, projects and participation processes.
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