Making sense of the future / Rick Szostak.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Szostak, Rick, 1959- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Forecasting.

Future, The.

Physical Description:

xiii, 192 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction

1.1. Outline of the book

1.2. Important characteristics of this book

1.3. A brief survey of Future Studies

1.4. Why do this?

2. Setting societal goals

2.1. How to set goals

2.2. Particular goals

2.3. Desirable futures

3. Plotting strategies to achieve societal goals

3.1. How to plot strategies

3.2. Strategies for achieving particular goals

3.3. Interactions among strategies

4. Predicting plausible futures

4.1. How to identify plausible futures

4.2. Particular trends

4.3. Plausible futures

5. Coping with surprises

5.1. How to identify surprises

5.2. Particular surprises

5.3. Interactions among surprises

6. Achieving desirable futures

6.1. Guidelines for advocacy

6.2. Gaining public support for strategies

6.3. Taking a staged approach

6.4. Networking

6.5. Leadership

6.6. Strategic planning

6.7. Engage in and encourage scenario planning

6.8. Dealing with entrenched interests

6.9. Act locally

6.10. Be prepared for failure

6.11. Believe in progress

6.12. Research that is needed

6.13. Integrating strategies for advocacy

7. Concluding remarks.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

1032033487

9781032033488

1032033509

9781032033501

OCLC:

1249495052