Sökning: "futures studies"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 86 avhandlingar innehållade orden futures studies.
1. Making Futures : On Targets, Measures and Governance in Backcasting and Planning
Sammanfattning : This thesis is about the making of futures – in the sense of planning, through which the world of tomorrow is crafted, and in the sense of images of the future, developed through the futures studies approach of backcasting. The point of departure for the thesis is that more visionary and strategic forms of planning are needed if the challenges of sustainable development are to be met, and that backcasting, through its long-term, integrative and normative character, can be a helpful tool towards this end. LÄS MER
2. Reef Futures : Exploring the dynamics of transformative change in marine social-ecological systems
Sammanfattning : The thesis explores issues relating to transformative change in the context of marine governance in the Coral Triangle, and the effects of such change processes on policy, stakeholder relations and management activities. Paper 1 studies how change-oriented actors (institutional entrepreneurs) operating at the international level can introduce and purposefully navigate large-scalechange processes. LÄS MER
3. Futures som ett mångsidigt instrument : En empirisk studie av oljebolag som använder futureskontrakt
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4. Of Imagined and Potential Futures : Speculative Fiction in Southern Africa, 2008-2018
Sammanfattning : This research project explores the rhetorical function of contemporary Anglophone speculative fiction (sf) in southern Africa. Focusing on short fiction produced between 2008 and 2018, the project delineates this literary production both theoretically and historically. LÄS MER
5. Sharing the doughnut : Exploring sustainable and just futures
Sammanfattning : Despite decades of international discussions or summits on the need to radically reduce e.g. increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases (GHGs) or biodiversity loss, these are still rising. LÄS MER