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Futures beyond dystopia : creating social foresight /

How can dystopian futures help provide the motivation to change the ways we operate day to day?Futures Beyond Dystopia takes the view that the dominant trends in the world suggest a long-term decline into unliveable Dystopian futures. The human prospect is therefore very challenging, yet the percept...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Slaughter, Richard
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : RoutledgeFalmer, 2004.
Colección:Futures and education series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • BookCover
  • Half-Title
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • PART 1 Aspects of futures enquiry
  • Chapter 1 A twenty-first-century agenda
  • Chapter 2 Are there futures beyond Dystopia?
  • Chapter 3 Professional standards in futures work
  • Part 2 The case against hegemony
  • Chapter 4 Three pop futurist texts
  • Chapter 5 Perils of breadth American style
  • Part 3 Expanding and deepening a futures frame
  • Chapter 6 Beyond the mundane
  • Chapter 7 Changing methods and approaches in Futures Studies Part 4 Futures Studies and the integral agenda
  • Chapter 8 Transcending flatland
  • Chapter 9 A new framework for environmental scanning
  • Chapter 10 Knowledge creation, futures methods and the integral agenda
  • Chapter 11 Towards integral futures
  • Part 5 Social learning through applied foresight
  • Chapter 12 Futures Studies to social foresight
  • Chapter 13 Emergence of futures into the educational mainstream
  • ""Chapter 14 Creating and sustaining second-generation Institutions of Foresight """"Chapter 15 Foresight in a social context ""; ""Part 6 Strategies and outlooks ""; ""Chapter 16 A â€?great transitionâ€? or many? ""; ""Chapter 17 Futures Studies as a civilizational catalyst ""; ""Conclusion The dialectic of foresight and experience ""; ""Notes ""; ""Annotated futures bibliography ""; ""Index ""