The future of social-ecological systems at the crossroads of quantitative and qualitative methods

Urgent calls to transform societies toward more sustainability make the practice of anticipation and necessary. The progressive development computational technologies has opened room for a growing use quantitative methods explore future social-ecological systems, in addition qualitative methods. This warrants investigating issues power relationships discontinuities unknowns that arise when mingling anticipatory We first reflected on semantics attached these then conducted comparative analysis way articulation was conducted, based an in-depth set eleven projects completed by several external case studies. propose insights classify according timing (successive, iterative or convergent) purpose (imagination, refinement, assessment awareness raising). methodological implications discuss ways inform frame seek combine