The exploratory analysis of trade-offs in strategic planning: Lessons from Regional Infrastructure Foresight

E. Störmer, B. Truffer, D. Dominguez, W. Gujer, A. Herlyn, H. Hiessl, H. Kastenholz, A. Klinke, J. Markard, M. Maurer, A. Ruef

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Abstract

The sustainable transformation of infrastructure sectors represents a challenge of prime importance worldwide. Due to long life times of infrastructures, strategic decision making has to explicitly consider uncertainties in context conditions, value considerations and available technological alternatives. However currently, strategic infrastructure planning is often carried out in a very narrow perspective. The present paper argues that foresight informed strategic planning, allows addressing trade-offs related to context uncertainties, value conflicts and sustainability deficits in a structured way. The paper introduces a specific procedural proposal, the Regional Infrastructure Foresight method (RIF) and illustrates its potential virtues through an application to urban water management planning in a Swiss region (Kiesental).

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1150-1162
Number of pages13
JournalTechnological Forecasting and Social Change
Volume76
Issue number9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Nov 2009

Keywords

  • Infrastructure
  • Participation
  • Regional foresight
  • Strategic planning

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