2024/03/21 by Raphael Anammasiya Ayambire, Markus Moos
Social Sciences · #Urban Planning and Governance #Urban and Rural Development Challenges #Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
paper · pdf · doi:10.1177/0739456x241238684
openalex publication_date 2024/03/21 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/02
Scenario planning is a valuable tool for dealing with uncertainty, but little is known about its consideration of social equity. We investigated if and how studies of scenario planning in the peer-reviewed literature address issues of social equity. After reviewing 157 peer-reviewed articles on scenario planning, we find that social equity is either ignored or underemphasized in scenario processes. Integrating social equity principles into the scenario planning method promises to help planners prepare for different social equity outcomes in the future. We suggest ways to incorporate social equity principles, such as recognition, representation, and redistribution, into the scenario planning method.