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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Published in:	Futures : the journal of policy, planning and futures studies Vol. 42; no. 8; pp. 895 - 900
Main Author:	Samet, Robert H.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford Elsevier Ltd 01.10.2010 Elsevier Science Ltd
Subjects:	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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