Back to futures: futures studies and its role in addressing the great civilisational challenges
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Article Title | Back to futures: futures studies and its role in addressing the great civilisational challenges |
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Article Category | Notes or commentaries |
Authors | |
Author | van der Laan, Luke |
Publication Title | Human Futures |
Number of Pages | 3 |
Year | 2020 |
Web Address (URL) | https://wfsf.org/communications/wfsf-magazines |
Abstract | Concern for human futures can arguably be said to be at its most urgent in the history of humanity. Viable alternative human futures seem to be on the decline as emergencies that threaten humanity increase. The climate emergency announced by 11000 scientists recently as published in the journal BioScience is the most obvious. It declares that the climate crisis “has arrived” and is “accelerating faster than most scientists expect”, causing “untold human suffering”. |
Keywords | foresight; futures studies; civilisational challenge |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 350718. Strategy |
Public Notes | Human Futures April 2019 Issue by WFSF is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. |
Byline Affiliations | School of Education |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q5vw9/back-to-futures-futures-studies-and-its-role-in-addressing-the-great-civilisational-challenges
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