Hiroyuki Yoshikawa’s research while affiliated with National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology and other places

... With origins in the late 1990s, sustainability science has emerged as an academic field focused on developing a comprehensive and panoramic view of sustainability by understanding the complex and dynamic interplay among global, social, and human systems (Clark, Dickson 2003;Kates et al., 2001;Komiyama and Takeuchi 2006;Spangenberg 2011). In contrast to the conventional sciences, sustainability science is characterized as being transdisciplinary and solution-oriented (Kates et al., 2001;Kajikawa et al., 2007), with the aim of producing new knowledge that incorporates a process for synthesizing knowledge from a variety of fields (Yoshikawa 2008). ...

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Scenario structuring methodology for computer-aided scenario design: An application to envisioning sustainable futures