Futurists and their schools: A response to Ziauddin Sardar's ‘the namesake’

A ‘futurist’ is the generic term for someone seriously engaged in the consideration of future conditions. ‘Futures research’ has a systems science orientation with a planning horizon in excess of 10 years. ‘Futures studies’ has a social science connotation and ‘foresight’ is the most popular term wi...

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Veröffentlicht in:Futures : the journal of policy, planning and futures studies Jg. 42; H. 8; S. 895 - 900
1. Verfasser: Samet, Robert H.
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Oxford Elsevier Ltd 01.10.2010
Elsevier Science Ltd
Schlagworte:
Academic Disciplines
Climate change
Connotation
Economic conditions
Economic stabilization
Equilibrium
Forecasting
Future
Futures (of Society)
Information science
Infrastructure
Management science
Science and technology
Social Sciences
Studies
Urbanization
ISSN:0016-3287, 1873-6378
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Zusammenfassung:A ‘futurist’ is the generic term for someone seriously engaged in the consideration of future conditions. ‘Futures research’ has a systems science orientation with a planning horizon in excess of 10 years. ‘Futures studies’ has a social science connotation and ‘foresight’ is the most popular term within the management science and corporate sectors. Five schools of futures researchers are defined: 1. Environmental and geosciences. 2. Infrastructure systems and engineering technology. 3. Social, political and economic science. 4. Human life, mind and information science. 5. Business and management science. The academic route to a futures qualification is outlined with a list of futures orientated organisations. The inclusion of urbanisation in the next generation of scenarios for climate change research and assessment, would involve replacing the notion of economic equilibrium by the concept of far-from-equilibrium stability. Finally futures research is described as an evolutionary science, which will possibly become integrated within complexity science by 2050.
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ISSN:0016-3287
1873-6378
DOI:10.1016/j.futures.2010.04.026