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In future-oriented studies, scenario building and analysis are becoming increasingly fashionable. This apparent increase in popularity is, however, somewhat misleading: many studies in trend analysis, comparisons of static equilibria, variant analysis and sensitivity analysis are presented nowadays as scenario studies . We prefer to use the term ‘scenario’ in the stricter sense: a scenario is a description of the current situation, of a possible or desirable future state as well as of the series of events that could lead from the current state of affairs to this future state
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Veeneklaas, F.R., van den Berg, L.M., Schoonenboom, I.J., van de Klundert, A.F. (1995). Scenarios as a tool. In: Schoute, J.F.T., Finke, P.A., Veeneklaas, F.R., Wolfert, H.P. (eds) Scenario Studies for the Rural Environment. Environment & Policy, vol 5. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0441-8_3
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