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Total Pages : 316 pages
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Download or read book Futures Research Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wendell Bell
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 141282379X
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (128 download)
Download or read book Foundations of Futures Studies, Volume 1 written by Wendell Bell and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Futures studies is a new field of inquiry involving systematic and explicit thinking about alternative futures. It aims to demystify the future, make possibilities for the future more known to us, and increase human control over the future. Author Wendell Bell brings together futurist intellectual tools, describing and explaining not only the methods, but also the nature, concepts, theories, and exemplars of the field. Now available in paperback with a new preface from the author, Foundations of Future Studies is the fundamental work on the subject. Bell illustrates how this sphere of intellectual activity offers hope for the future of humanity and concrete ways of realizing that hope in the real world of everyday life. His book will appeal to all interested in futures studies, sociology, economics, political science, and history.
Author : World Future Society
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780930242305
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (423 download)
Download or read book The Futures Research Directory written by World Future Society and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World Future Society is an independent, nonprofit, scientific and educational organization concerned with how people will live in the coming decades. Founded in 1966, the Society currently has over 25,000 members worldwide. Individuals and groups from all nations are eligible to join the Society and participate in its programs and activities. The Society publishes a number of periodicals and books, sponsors local chapters, and holds conferences and assemblies. The publications include THE FUTURIST, a bimonthly magazine reporting trends, forecasts, and ideas about the future; FUTURE SURVEY, a monthly digest of abstracts of futures-relevant literature; and FUTURES RESEARCH QUARTERLY, a professional journal providing information on more technical future-oriented topics. The Society also maintains a unique bookstore that enables members to purchase future-related books, cassette recordings of Society conference sessions, videocassettes, and more, all at special member prices. Chapters of the World Future Society are active in both the United States and abroad. Chapters offer speakers, educational courses, seminars, and other opportunities for members in local areas to meet and work together. World Future Society conferences and general assemblies provide opportunities to hear and meet many outstanding thinkers. The Society's next major conference will be held in Washington, B.C., in August 1989.
Author : Jose Valciukas
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351519433
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book Foundations of Futures Studies written by Jose Valciukas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Futures studies is a new field of inquiry involving systematic and explicit thinking about alternative futures. It aims to demystify the future, make possibilities for the future more known to us, and increase human control over the future. This book summarizes and expands contributions of futurists to the envisioning power and well-being of humanity. Bell brings together futurist intellectual tools, describing and explaining not only the methods, but also the nature, concepts, theories, and exemplars of the field.Foundations of Futures Studies fulfills Bell's five main purposes for writing this two-volume effort: (1) to show that futures studies, like other fields from anthropology to zoology, exists as an identifiable sphere of intellectual activity; (2) to create a teaching instrument that can be used as a basic text for core courses in futures studies; (3) to futurize the thinking of specialists in other disciplines; (4) to contribute to the further development and improvement of futures studies; and (5) to provide tools to empower both ordinary people and leaders to act in ways that create better futures for themselves and their societies. Bell maintains that despite its sometimes doomsday rhetorical style and widespread use by special interests, futures studies offers hope for the future of humanity and concrete ways of realizing that hope in the real world of our everyday lives. It will appeal to all interested in futures studies, as well as sociologists, economists, political scientists, and historians.
Author : W. Warren Wagar
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)
Download or read book The Next Three Futures written by W. Warren Wagar and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1991-08-26 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wagar pulls together all aspects of futures studies in this unique volume--comprising a vital introduction to, and defense of, the impressive array of futurist inquiry. The book examines how futurists think and work. It compares and analyzes their ideas on a wide range of topics, including the environment, politics, economics, war and peace, and sociocultural issues. Wagar also shows how the three ideological paradigms within the futures field, the technoliberal, the radical, and the countercultural, play a role in the study of the future. The organizing theme of this unique work by W. Warren Wagar is the way in which images of alternative futures are shaped by ideological differences in the present. Wagar identifies three principal camps of futurist thought: technoliberals, radicals, and counterculturalists. By far the largest group are the technoliberals--supporters of parliamentary democracy, civil liberties, free enterprise, and technological progress. Radicals occupy the Marxist and democratic-socialist Left, while counterculturalists espouse decentralist, eco-pacifist, and New Age values. The Next Three Futures pulls together all aspects of futures studies--comprising a vital introduction and outline of the many worlds of futurist inquiry. The book consists of two parts: the first an examination of how futurists think and work; the second a comparative and critical analysis of their ideas on a wide variety of topics. After a short prologue, the first chapter defines the scope and limitations of futures research, and discusses its chief methodologies. The next chapter gives a valuable intellectual history of futurism from its earliest origins, with special emphasis on the work of H. G. Wells. The idea of the ideological paradigm in futures studies is described in the third chapter. The following four chapters, making up part two, investigate the thinking of contemporary futurists on the environment, economic and political developments, war and peace, and societal/cultural issues. Wagar's epilogue considers the possibility that the technoliberal, radical, and countercultural futures may all lie ahead for humankind, but at different stages and times in the years to come. This highly readable volume will be of great value to students of futurism, futurists, political scientists, sociologists, economic forecasters, environmentalists, and anyone else fascinated by the study of the future.
Author : Michael Marien
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780930242329
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (423 download)
Download or read book Future Survey Annual 1986 written by Michael Marien and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James A. Dator
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 : 9780275976323
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (763 download)
Download or read book Advancing Futures written by James A. Dator and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2002-04-30 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is Futures Studies, what are the theories and methods underlying the field? What are its basic concepts and metaphors, and how is it related to other academic fields? These are the core questions addressed in this book by a comprehensive assembly of distinguished scholars. They explore the enigma of why Futures Studies, despite its growing maturity as an intellectual endeavor, after more than three decades of groundbreaking work, still struggles for institutional acceptance. Together these contributors paint a picture of Futures Studies not so much a product of the stale intellectual heritage of the 20th century, but as a vibrant harbinger of intellectual perspectives sure to gain wider currency in the 21st. Drawing on their backgrounds in fields as diverse as political science, history, sociology, anthropology, economics, psychology, management, and human ecology, this international line-up of contributors includes world systems theorist Immanuel Wallerstein, philosopher Peter Manicas, management professor Bill Halal, and industrial sociologist Arthur Shostak.
Author : Jerome C. Glenn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780981894119
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (941 download)
Download or read book Futures Research Methodology written by Jerome C. Glenn and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive and internationally peer-reviewed handbook on tools and methods for forecasting and analysis of global change.
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Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Futurist written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Patrick A. Duin
Publisher : Eburon Uitgeverij B.V.
ISBN 13 : 9059721152
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (597 download)
Download or read book Qualitative Futures Research for Innovation written by Patrick A. Duin and published by Eburon Uitgeverij B.V.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Marien
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780930242299
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Future Survey Annual 1985 written by Michael Marien and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Rosen
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 1483286274
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (832 download)
Download or read book Anticipatory Systems written by Robert Rosen and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first detailed study of this most important class of systems which contain internal predictive models of themselves and/or of their environments and whose predictions are utilized for purposes of present control. This book develops the basic concept of a predictive model, and shows how it can be embedded into a system of feedforward control. Includes many examples and stresses analogies between wired-in anticipatory control and processes of learning and adaption, at both individual and social levels. Shows how the basic theory of such systems throws a new light both on analytic problems (understanding what is going on in an organism or a social system) and synthetic ones (developing forecasting methods for making individual or collective decisions).
Author : David Hicks
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136166181
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)
Download or read book World Yearbook of Education 1998 written by David Hicks and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the central roles of education is to prepare students for the future and yet its study is often a neglected issue. This work focuses on the futures field as an educational resource using case studies from around the world, and on the nature of education for sustainability.
Author : Michael Marien
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780930242350
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (423 download)
Download or read book Future Survey Annual 1988-1989 written by Michael Marien and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BMW Z-cars have carved a huge reputation for themselves in a very short time. From the revolutionary and innovative Z1 of the late 1980s to the beautiful and exclusive Z8 of more recent times, via the popular Z3 and its controversial replacement, the Z4, the family has made BMW's name in the increasingly competitive sports-car market.
Author : World Future Society
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780930242268
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Future Survey Annual 1984 written by World Future Society and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1984-06-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jerome C. Glenn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Futures Research Methodology written by Jerome C. Glenn and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive and internationally peer-reviewed handbook on tools and methods for forecasting and analysis of global change.
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Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book PAIS Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
