Often concepts of sustainability have been criticised for being theoretically ill-founded and lacking practical impact. This paper provides a new theoretical foundation of sustainable development, which is based on a coherent set of three normative and functional categories: systems integrity,...

Kernenergieausstieg und Klimaschutz in Baden-Württemberg.

Cross-impact analysis is the name for a familiar method for multidisciplinary systems analysis in social sciences and management sciences, especially in technology foresight, technology assessment and scenario planning. A recently proposed form of cross-impact analysis, CIB, may be of interest...

Einleitung -- Anwendungsfeld der CIB -- Grundlagen der CIB: Praktische Durchführung der CIB, Schritt für Schritt. Funktionsweise des CIB-Algorithmus zur Szenarienkonstruktion -- Portfolioanalyse: Beschreibung der wichtigsten Auswertungsmöglichkeite -- Was tun, wenn… Ansätze zum Umgang mit...

1 Introduction -- 2 The Application Field of CIB -- 3 Foundations of CIB -- 4 Analyzing Scenario Portfolios -- 5 What if… Challenges in CIB practice -- 6 Data in CIB -- 7 CIB at Work -- 8 Reflections on CIB.