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Authors: Richa Slaughter
ISBN-13: 9780415302708, ISBN-10: 0415302706
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: December 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Richa Slaughter

Book Synopsis

This analysis of current futures practice is split into six sections: the case against hegemony, expanding and deepening a futures frame, futures studies and the integral agenda, social learning through applied foresight, strategies and outlooks, and the dialectic of foresight and experience.

	List of figures
	Foreword
	Acknowledgements
	List of abbreviations
	Introduction
Pt. 1	Aspects of futures enquiry	3
1	A twenty-first-century agenda	5
2	Are there futures beyond Dystopia?	15
3	Professional standards in futures work	31
Pt. 2	The case against hegemony	49
4	Three pop futurist texts	51
5	Perils of breadth American style	67
Pt. 3	Expanding and deepening a futures frame	85
6	Beyond the mundane	87
7	Changing methods and approaches in Futures Studies	100
Pt. 4	Futures Studies and the integral agenda	113
8	Transcending flatland	115
9	A new framework for environmental scanning	127
10	Knowledge creation, futures methods and the integral agenda	138
11	Towards integral futures	152
Pt. 5	Social learning through applied foresight	169
12	Futures Studies to social foresight	171
13	Emergence of futures into the educational mainstream	186
14	Creating and sustaining second-generation Institutions of Foresight	200
15	Foresight in a social context	211
Pt. 6	Strategies and outlooks	225
16	A 'great transition' or many?	227
17	Futures Studies as a civilizational catalyst	236
	Conclusion: the dialectic of foresight and experience	250
	Notes	256
	Annotated futures bibliography	267
	Index	301

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