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A Futures Studies program is offered at Tamkang University, Taiwan. Futures Studies is a required course at the undergraduate level, with between three and five thousand students taking classes on an annual basis. Housed in the Graduate Institute of Futures Studies is an MA Program. Only ten students are accepted annually in the program.
(Received the 2003 Emerald Literati Awards’ Outstanding Paper accolade for best article published in Foresight). A. Hines. “A Practitioner’s View of the Future of Futures Studies,” Futures, Vol. 34, 2002, pp. 337–347. A. Hines, K. Kelly & S. Noesen, “Viral Futures at Dow,” Futures Research Quarterly, Fall 2001.
The Institute for Futures Studies (IFFS, Institutet för framtidsstudier) is a Swedish research institute founded in 1973 as a Swedish government secretariat, and made independent in 1987. The institute conducts policy-relevant , inter-disciplinary research on critical future-related issues and contributes to the public policy discourse through ...
The Journal of Futures Studies (JFS) is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal in the discipline of futures studies. It is published by Tamkang University Press on behalf of the Graduate Institute of Futures Studies at Tamkang University in Tamsui , Taipei , in Taiwan .
Foresight: The Journal of Futures Studies, Strategic Thinking and Policy is an international bi-monthly journal published by the Emerald Publishing Group. [2] The name connotes the term "foresight" as it is used in futures studies. Established in 1999, the journal provides a powerful framework and set of techniques that allow for understanding ...
Foresight is not the same as futures research or strategic planning. It encompasses a range of approaches that combine the three components mentioned above, which may be recast as: futures (forecasting, forward thinking, prospectives), planning (strategic analysis, priority setting), and; networking (participatory, dialogic) tools and orientations.
Futurology (also called futures studies and futurism) is the study of postulating possible, probable, and preferable futures and the worldviews and myths that underlie them. In general, it can be considered as a branch of the social sciences and parallel to the field of history. History studies the past, while futurology considers the future.
Futures is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering futures studies. It is published by Elsevier. The editors-in-chief are Patrick van der Duin (Foresight & Innovation Management) and Chris Groves (Cardiff University). It is one of the journals that in the 1970s contributed to creating a debate on the topics of sustainable development. [1]