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Doctoral School Sustainable Development - Thinking in the long-term: The institutionalized production and use of prospective knowledge for anticipatory policy-making – Analysis of the conception and practices of Strategic Environmental Assessment, Technology Assessments and Foresights in Austria
Abstract
Thinking in the long-term is a central demand within the discourse on sustainable development and strongly reflected in the imperative of intergenerational equity. The PhD-project takes this demand as a starting point and, in a first step, searches for institutional innovations striving for the anticipation and discussion of the future in order to provide guidance for public decision-making processes. A range of institutional innovations, instruments, tools and methods have been developed throughout the last decades, including the three within the project analysed instruments Strategic Environmental Assessment, Technology Assessment and Foresights. Within this project these instruments are understood as institutionalized mechanisms of the social production of prospective knowledge. They are institutionalized by means of guidelines and textbooks, professional communities and practices, laws and regulations, organizations, networks, conferences and the like. By their institutionalization they form a more or less coherent and identifiable set of specific ontological, epistemological and methodological assumptions about prospective knowledge as well as of (often implicit) theories of the policy process. Thus, in a further step the social production and use of prospective knowledge is analysed in-depth, focusing on the institutional contexts that structure the knowledge production and use. Taking a social constructivist perspective and an interpretative approach, the project aims at the understanding and interpretation of the rationality, construction and use of prospective knowledge within the context of public decision-making.
keywords Long-term Orientation Institutions Polices Discourses Sustainable Development
Publikationen
Wissen für eine vorausschauende Politik: Der Umgang mit Unsicherheit in Strategischer Umweltprüfung, Technikfolgenabschätzung und Foresight
Autoren: Bauer, Anja; Pregernig, Michael Jahr: 2013
Chapter in collected volumes
Whose look into the future? Participation in technology assessment and foresight
Autoren: Bauer, Anja; Pregernig, Michael Jahr: 2013
Journal articles
Project staff
Michael Pregernig
Ao.Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Mag.rer.soc.oec. Michael Pregernig
michael.pregernig@boku.ac.at
Project Leader
01.03.2007 - 31.01.2010
Markus Fiebig
Univ.Prof. Dipl.Geol. Dr.rer.nat. Markus Fiebig
markus.fiebig@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-87212
Sub Projectleader
01.03.2007 - 31.01.2010
Andreas Muhar
Ao.Univ.Prof.i.R. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.nat.techn. Andreas Muhar
andreas.muhar@boku.ac.at
Sub Projectleader
01.03.2007 - 31.01.2010