Futures Research Methodology

Futures Research Methodology
Author: Jerome C. Glenn
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Forecasting
ISBN: 9780981894119

Comprehensive and internationally peer-reviewed handbook on tools and methods for forecasting and analysis of global change.

Futures Research Methodology

Futures Research Methodology
Author: Jerome C. Glenn
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2009
Genre: Forecasting
ISBN:

Comprehensive and internationally peer-reviewed handbook on tools and methods for forecasting and analysis of global change.

Methods In Futures Studies

Methods In Futures Studies
Author: Brita Schwarz
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 122
Release: 2019-03-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 042971680X

This book presents three examples of futures research that illustrate the problems of applying knowledge during the course of a futures research project, the ways in which different methodologies interact, and various means of combining and adapting methodological tools and techniques.

Futures Research and Environmental Sustainability

Futures Research and Environmental Sustainability
Author: James K. Lein
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 173
Release: 2016-12-08
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1315353962

This book explores the challenges of presenting sustainability as a more actionable or practical concept and identifying approaches that might offer useful assistance in addressing the temporal and spatial representation of sustainability. The underlying premise of this book is that sustainability is a state realized in the future. In that future there is a geographic arrangement of society and economy that agrees with its environmental setting. This future perspective introduces a little examined subject area that can lend significant content to the sustainability challenge: Futures Research.

Speculative Research

Speculative Research
Author: Alex Wilkie
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2017-02-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1134890702

Is another future possible? So called ‘late modernity’ is marked by the escalating rise in and proliferation of uncertainties and unforeseen events brought about by the interplay between and patterning of social–natural, techno–scientific and political-economic developments. The future has indeed become problematic. The question of how heterogeneous actors engage futures, what intellectual and practical strategies they put into play and what the implications of such strategies are, have become key concerns of recent social and cultural research addressing a diverse range of fields of practice and experience. Exploring questions of speculation, possibilities and futures in contemporary societies, Speculative Research responds to the pressing need to not only critically account for the role of calculative logics and rationalities in managing societal futures, but to develop alternative approaches and sensibilities that take futures seriously as possibilities and that demand new habits and practices of attention, invention, and experimentation.

Anthropologies and Futures

Anthropologies and Futures
Author: Juan Francisco Salazar
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2017-05-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1474264891

Anthropology has a critical, practical role to play in contemporary debates about futures. This game-changing new book presents new ways of conceptualising how to engage with a future-oriented research agenda, demonstrating how anthropologists can approach futures both theoretically and practically, and introducing a set of innovative research methods to tackle this field of research. Anthropology and Futures brings together a group of leading scholars from across the world, including Sarah Pink, Rayna Rapp, Faye Ginsburg and Paul Stoller. Firmly grounded in ethnographic fieldwork experience, the book's fifteen chapters traverse ethnographies with people living with HIV/AIDS in Uganda, disability activists in the U.S., young Muslim women in Copenhagen, refugees in Milan, future-makers in Barcelona, planning and land futures in the UK, the design of workspaces in Melbourne, rewilding in the French Pyrenees, and speculative ethnographies among emerging communities in Antarctica. Taking a strong interdisciplinary approach, the authors respond to growing interest in the topic of futures in anthropology and beyond. This ground-breaking text is a call for more engaged, interventional and applied anthropologies. It is essential reading for students and researchers in anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, design and research methods.

Next Generation Supply Chains

Next Generation Supply Chains
Author: Rosanna Fornasiero
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2020-12-31
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3030635058

This open access book explores supply chains strategies to help companies face challenges such as societal emergency, digitalization, climate changes and scarcity of resources. The book identifies industrial scenarios for the next decade based on the analysis of trends at social, economic, environmental technological and political level, and examines how they may impact on supply chain processes and how to design next generation supply chains to answer these challenges. By mapping enabling technologies for supply chain innovation, the book proposes a roadmap for the full implementation of the supply chain strategies based on the integration of production and logistics processes. Case studies from process industry, discrete manufacturing, distribution and logistics, as well as ICT providers are provided, and policy recommendations are put forward to support companies in this transformative process.

Collaborative Futures in Qualitative Inquiry

Collaborative Futures in Qualitative Inquiry
Author: Norman K. Denzin
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2021-05-03
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000389340

Collaborative Futures in Qualitative Inquiry critically reflects on and explores the role of qualitative research amidst the global COVID-19 pandemic. Against this unprecedented backdrop, it asks what research means during a global pandemic and what it means to be an academic. Leading international scholars from the United States, Canada, Chile, New Zealand, Norway, and the United Kingdom wrestle with the changing dynamics of research in pandemic times. Collectively and collaboratively, contributors call for a critical, performative, social justice inquiry directed at the multiple crises of our historical present—a rethinking of where we have been, and, critically, where we are going. More specifically, contributors focus on such topics as: the emotional geographies of academic writing; assaults on science and truth; pedagogies of the imagination; indigenization and reconciliation; the search for our common humanity; and the relevance of qualitative inquiry in an era of big data and digital transformation. Collaborative Futures in Qualitative Inquiry is a must-read for faculty and students alike who are interested in imagining new ways to collaborate, to engage in research and activism, and represent and intervene into social life in pandemic times.

Anticipatory Systems

Anticipatory Systems
Author: Robert Rosen
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 447
Release: 2013-10-22
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1483286274

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).