ABSTRACT
This chapter provides some of the emerging stories of the future that have been generated by the global crisis. It argues that rising resource prices have joined climate change and ecosystem services as a key landscape driver of change. The landscape includes: environmental and demographic change, new social movements, shifts in general political ideology, broad economic restructuring, emerging scientific paradigms, and cultural developments. Landscapes provide an influential backdrop with ramifications across a variety of regimes and niches: providing gradients and affordances for how to go about establishing socio-technical configurations that service societal needs. According to the multi-level perspective on sustainability transitions, the macro-level sociotechnical landscape provides the context for the relatively autonomous institutionalisation of sociotechnical regimes and the initiation of niche innovations protected somewhat from potentially hostile market and political dynamics. Bradfield-Moody and Bianca Nogrady also imagine a future sociotechnical landscape in terms of the dynamics of a 'sixth wave'.
