Backcasting — a framework for strategic planning

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Backcasting for sustainability: Introduction to the special issue (2011, methodology): “In addition, there is also the widely applied methodology of " The Natural Step " , which uses backcasting too [14] [15].”
A framework for strategic sustainable development (2017, background): “Otherwise, an actor might, e.g., run out of financial resources and find its competitive positin diminished (Esty and Porter 1998), or select actions that give quick wins but then turn out to be suboptimized in the longer perspective (Broman et al., 2000; Holmberg and Robèrt 2000).”
Integrating Backcasting and Eco‐Design for the Circular Economy: The BECE Framework (2017, background): “Among the three scenario approaches—forecasting, foresighting, and backcasting—the latter is the most suitable for exploring complex societal long-term futures, offered by the CE context, where forecasting is unlikely to be accurate (Börjeson et al. 2006; Holmberg and Robèrt 2000).”