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This paper discusses adaptation and mitigation strategies as outlined in climate change scenarios. The adaptive perspective is closely connected to the concept of resilience understood as different views on nature's capacity to absorb shocks, renewal and re-organization. In constructing normative scenarios images of the future are generated illustrating potential ways of living, travelling and consuming products and services where certain goals such as a reduced climate impact are fulfilled. This paper argues that tension arising from climate strategies relying on either adaptation or mitigation strategies, or combining the two strategies, warrant further examination. In this paper the inter-relationships between adaptation and mitigation is discussed by examining processes of citizen-participation in constructing scenarios and applying the concepts of resilience, vulnerability and adaptive capacity. We discuss this using the concept of deliberative planning processes as a means to achieve legitimate, effective and sustainable futures. As a part of this approach, we argue that methods for citizen-participation applied in exploring different science and technology options also provide useful insight for this type of planning processes. The theoretical arguments are combined with examples from environmental scenario construction in practice. The paper brings attention to tensions between sustainability content values, such as reduced climate impact, and more process oriented values such as legitimacy and participatory scenario construction. Moreover, the concept of open innovation processes is introduced to the context of participatory scenario construction as a means to increase the robustness of action plans implemented to reduce climate change.

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The aim of this article is to see how awareness of sustainable development and environmental justice can be increased and operationalized in planning through the use of scenarios. On scrutinizing four long‐term urban development strategies for Stockholm, we found that they all intend to depict a sustainable urban development, but the resultant images are very different. This article underlines the importance of combining environmental justice with an understanding of environmental threats and risks. We see that the carrying capacity of nature is limited, but we also see the need to share resources justly and make sure that environmental degradation does not systematically strike certain groups only. The conceptual elements are applied to four scenarios for a future Stockholm, zooming in to some extent on a suburban shopping node just outside the city. The point of focusing on it is that such shopping areas are sometimes seen as symbols of non‐sustainable city development, but, since they are already in place, their function in the future city needs to be discussed. Résumé Cet article étudie comment la sensibilisation au développement durable et à la justice environnementale peut être renforcée et mise en æuvre grâce à des scénarios utilisés dans le cadre de la planification. L'examen de quatre stratégies d'urbanisme à long terme pour Stockholm révèle que celles‐ci visent toutes à refléter un aménagement urbain durable, mais que les images obtenues sont très différentes. Il paraît indispensable de combiner la justice environnementale à la compréhension des menaces et risques pour l'environnement. La capacité de charge de la nature est limitée, mais il faut aussi opérer un juste partage des ressources, en s'assurant que la dégradation de l'environnement n'affecte pas systématiquement et uniquement certains groupes. La cadre conceptuel est appliqué aux quatre scénarios d'une future Stockholm, en détaillant dans une certaine mesure un pôle commerçant suburbain situé juste en‐dehors de la capitale. Ce point de focalisation tient au fait que les zones commerçantes de ce type symbolisent parfois un urbanisme non durable. Toutefois, comme elles existent déjà, il convient d'analyser leur fonction dans la ville future.

A parking space is the beginning and the end of every car journey. Policies aimed at parking spaces are, thus, an effective way of affecting car travel. Policies regarding parking typically mean setting minimum parking requirements to meet the peak demand for parking. However, in several Swedish cities, as well as around Europe, attempts are made to lower the number of parking places. One way is to build homes without parking places for cars and pilot projects with zero-parking have started to materialize. This paper looks into the academic literature in the field of design and architecture to see how parking issues are dealt with. It also looks into ongoing practice by studying three pilot projects in Sweden that challenge the dominant parking norm by planning and building for a new normal—mobility convenience and zero parking. Both the literature and the cases point to little knowledge in the field. However, high demands on “creative mobility solutions” are placed on housing projects without parking places for cars. Even if the effects of sustainability are still unknown, zero parking pilot projects can narrate the possibility of another future—a future with mobility convenience instead of parking convenience.