Horizon Scanning

This is a note about review/provocation/challenge articles that aim to specify open questions, issues or challenges in a discipline or area of knowledge/practice.

Justification

Horizon scanning is a systematic approach for exploring emerging trends, issues, opportunities, threats, and events, which can facilitate proactive responses by scientists, managers, and policy makers.

Sutherland, William J., and Harry J. Woodroof. ‘The Need for Environmental Horizon Scanning’. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 24, no. 10 (2009): 523–27. https://doi.org/10/dxjd46.

Examples

Ockendon, Nancy, David H. L. Thomas, Jordi Cortina, William M. Adams, Toby Aykroyd, Boris Barov, Luigi Boitani, et al. ‘One Hundred Priority Questions for Landscape Restoration in Europe’. Biological Conservation 221 (2018): 198–208. https://doi.org/10/gdkq9n.

Sutherland, William J., Robert P. Freckleton, H. Charles J. Godfray, Steven R. Beissinger, Tim Benton, Duncan D. Cameron, Yohay Carmel, et al. ‘Identification of 100 Fundamental Ecological Questions’. Journal of Ecology 101, no. 1 (2013): 58–67. https://doi.org/10/f232cw.

Sutherland, William J., Craig Bennett, Peter N. M. Brotherton, Holly M. Butterworth, Mick N. Clout, Isabelle M. Côté, Jason Dinsdale, et al. ‘A Global Biological Conservation Horizon Scan of Issues for 2023’. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 38, no. 1 (2023): 96–107. https://doi.org/10/grhz83.

Kull, Kalevi, Claus Emmeche, and Donald Favareau. ‘Biosemiotic Questions’. Biosemiotics 1, no. 1 (2008): 41–55. https://doi.org/10/c836qr.

McCormack, Jon, Oliver Bown, Alan Dorin, Jonathan McCabe, Gordon Monro, and Mitchell Whitelaw. ‘Ten Questions Concerning Generative Computer Art’. Leonardo 47, no. 2 (2014): 135–41. https://doi.org/10/gfvsrp.

Bostrom, Nick. ‘Existential Risks: Analyzing Human Extinction Scenarios and Related Hazards’. Journal of Evolution and Technology 9 (2002).

Winter, Christoph, Jonas Schuett, Eric Martínez, Suzanne Van Arsdale, Renan Araújo, Nick Hollman, Jeff Sebo, Andrew Stawasz, Cullen O’Keefe, and Giuliana Rotola. ‘Legal Priorities Research: A Research Agenda’. SSRN Scholarly Paper. Rochester, 2021. https://doi.org/10/kkbd.