Foresight processes can help to cope with and make strategic decisions on specific ongoing crises such as climate change, migration or cybersecurity as well as enhance future preparedness. By strengthening participative, coping, adaptive, and transformative capacities within the societal fabric, these processes enable social systems to thrive amid uncertainty and adverse conditions.
This Policy Brief identifies Foresight processes’ different types of contributions to societal resilience, provides concrete examples from the FutuResilience Labs and calls on policy and decision makers to continuously embed participatory Foresight into crisis management.
Coping Capacity: Foresight processes help to make sense of a crisis and deal with uncertainty.
Adaptive/Transformative Capacity: Foresight processes enable social systems to adapt or even transform after a crisis, preparing for and imagining new futures worth striving for.
Participatory Capacity: Foresight processes mobilize a greater diversity of actors and perspectives for crisis solutions.
Download Policy BriefCIFS is a member of the consortium of the
FutuResilience project that aims to strengthen European economic and social resilience through an enhanced ability to respond to future crises.
