Overview
- Brings the entire field of Foresight Methodology up to date
- Provides a major step forward in standardizing Foresight research methods
- Spans the fields of network science, regional science, management science, and futures studies
Part of the book series: Complex Networks and Dynamic Systems (CNDS, volume 1)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Front Matter
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Theorizing About Foresight Methodologies
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THEORIZING ABOUT FORESIGHT METHODOLOGIES
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System Content Issues
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SYSTEM CONTENT ISSUES
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Foresight Tools and Approaches
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FORESIGHT TOOLS AND APPROACHES
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About this book
Foresight is an area within Futures Studies that focuses on critical thinking concerning long term developments, whether within the public sector or in industry and management, and is something of a sub-section of complexity and network science. This book examines developments in foresight methodologies and relates in its greater part to the work done in the context of the COSTA22 network of the EU on Foresight Methodologies. Foresight is a professional practice that supports significant decisions, and as such it needs to be more assured of its claims to knowledge (methodology). Foresight is practiced across many domains and is not the preserve of specialized ‘futurists’, or indeed of foresight specialists. However, the disciplines of foresight are not well articulated or disseminated across domains, leading to re-inventions and practice that does not make best use of experience in other domains.
The methodological development of foresight is an important task that aims at strengthening the pool of the tools available for application, thereby empowering the actors involved in foresight practice. Elaborating further on methodological issues, such as those presented in the present book, enables the actors involved in foresight to begin to critique current practice from this perspective and, thirdly, to begin to design foresight practice. The present trends towards methodological concerns indicates a move from ‘given’ expert-predicted futures to one in which futures are nurtured through a dialogue among “stakeholders.” The book has four parts, each elaborating on a set of aspects of foresight methodologies. After an introductory section, Part II considers theorizing about foresight methodologies. Part III covers system content issues, and Part IV presents foresight tools and approaches.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Recent Developments in Foresight Methodologies
Editors: Maria Giaoutzi, Bartolomeo Sapio
Series Title: Complex Networks and Dynamic Systems
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5215-7
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-5214-0Published: 27 November 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-7373-3Published: 13 December 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-5215-7Published: 28 November 2012
Series ISSN: 2195-724X
Series E-ISSN: 2195-7258
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 310
Topics: Operations Research/Decision Theory, Regional/Spatial Science, Complex Systems