The Future Is Ours - Foreseeing, Managing and Creating the Future

Why do we continue to think about, imagine, and forecast the future despite believing we will probably be wrong? Why do we need to do so? What does the future mean, and how do we relate to it? Is it possible that Western societies condition their members into inability to cope with the future?

These and other fundamental questions are explored in The Future Is Ours, which is written as an intermediate text for use in future-oriented modules within BA courses in International Business, Management, Urban Planning, and Environmental Politics.

List of contents

Prologue
The Futures Debate
The Future: Forgotten but Ever Present
Some Problems of Futures-Thinking
If It Is So Difficult, Why Do It?
Ways of Thinking About the Future
Introduction
Foreseeing the Future
Managing, Planning and Creating the Future
Challenges and Opportunities for the 21st Century
The Future as Paradox
Epilogue
References
Index

Product details

• Authors: Graham H. May
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.05.1996
• EAN: 9780275956783
• ISBN: 978-0-275-95678-3
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Business, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Future Studies, Social forecasting, future studies