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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451181003321

Autore

Slaughter Richard

Titolo

Futures beyond dystopia : creating social foresight / / Richard A. Slaughter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : RoutledgeFalmer, , 2004

ISBN

9786610267477

1-134-41458-7

1-280-26747-X

0-203-46515-6

Descrizione fisica

xxv, 306 p

Collana

Futures and education

Disciplina

303.49

Soggetti

Forecasting

Social prediction

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references  and index.

Nota di contenuto

chapter Introduction -- part PART 1 Aspects of futures enquiry -- chapter 1 A twenty-first-century agenda -- chapter 2 Are there futures beyond Dystopia? -- chapter 3 Professional standards in futures work -- part Part 2 The case against hegemony -- chapter 4 Three pop futurist texts -- chapter 5 Perils of breadth American style -- part Part 3 Expanding and deepening a futures frame -- chapter 6 Beyond the mundane -- chapter 7 Changing methods and approaches in Futures Studies -- part Part 4 Futures Studies and the integral agenda -- chapter 8 Transcending flatland -- chapter 9 A new framework for environmental scanning -- chapter 10 Knowledge creation, futures methods and the integral agenda -- chapter 11 Towards integral futures -- part Part 5 Social learning through applied foresight -- chapter 12 Futures Studies to social foresight -- chapter 13 Emergence of futures into the educational mainstream -- chapter 14 Creating and sustaining second-generation Institutions of Foresight -- chapter 15 Foresight in a social context -- part Part 6 Strategies and outlooks -- chapter 16 A great transition or many? -- chapter 17 Futures Studies as a civilizational catalyst.