TY - BOOK ID - 100980276 TI - Scenarios and Indicators for Sustainable Development–Towards A Critical Assessment of Achievements and Challenges PY - 2019 SN - 3038976733 3038976725 PB - MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute DB - UniCat KW - sustainable development goals KW - science-policy interface KW - long-wave theory KW - scenarios KW - tweets KW - sustainability indicators KW - models and modes of science KW - environmental innovation KW - energy supply KW - renewable energy KW - gross domestic product KW - GDP KW - bio-economics KW - data needs KW - fake news KW - European Tourism Indicator System (ETIS) KW - climate change KW - goals KW - Agenda 2030 KW - Visit South Sardinia KW - tourist destination KW - indicators KW - monitoring KW - modelling KW - institutions KW - sustainable development KW - grid flexibility KW - global indicator framework KW - microdata KW - decision-making KW - world views KW - SDGs KW - Germany KW - challenges KW - values KW - sustainable production and consumption KW - policies KW - sustainability transition KW - storage KW - stakeholders KW - innovation systems KW - societal impact KW - fossil energy system KW - multi-level perspective KW - household consumption KW - biodiversity KW - agency KW - evolutionary economics KW - energy transition KW - material footprint KW - transformation KW - sustainable tourism KW - opportunities KW - policy advice KW - international inequality KW - resource indicator KW - curtailment UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:100980276 AB - Globalization and telecoupling are enhancing the complexity of the coupled socio-ecological system constituted by the interaction between the global ecosphere and the anthroposphere. As a result, the demand for tools to identify transformative innovations, assess future risks, and support precautionary decisions for sustainability is growing by the day in business and politics. Scenarios are a means of simplification, reducing the real-world complexity to a limited number of essential factors to analyze their interactions and support policy formulation, with indicators as communication and monitoring tools. In particular, in a time of fake news and alternative truths a critical reflection amongst producers and users of scenarios and indicators is overdue; the capability for critical self-reflection is what distinguishes science from pseudo-science, and is a condition of trust. The authors of this book test established measurement and modeling approaches against new challenges, assess the weaknesses of prevailing innovation theories and the political-ideological embedment of archetypical scenarios, highlight deficits in taking the physical basics into account, and the need to understand global interaction and the stepwise process of energy transitions, point out technical as well as conceptual weaknesses in data collection, harmonization and indicator generation, always with a view to solving problems. ER -