.... Design/methodology/approach This paper explores the case of Qatar guided by strategic foresight methodology. Findings Based on multiple and carefully designed and facilitated focus groups with a wide range of participants, it develops three different future scenarios of social and cultural life...

...Kimberly Camrass Purpose This paper aims to investigate how futures concepts may further existing regenerative sustainability thinking. Design/methodology/approach This paper reviews existing regenerative fields, including regenerative design, regenerative development and regenerative...

...Marcus Bussey Purpose – This article seeks to reflect on the role of key concepts in foresight and futures work. The goal is to explore a set of concepts and link them to the effects they have in the world of foresight practice. It is argued that concepts order foresight practice...

... to expose issues that still plague the modern world some decades after they were first written. Perhaps the link between the two books ought to be Don Michael's conclusion that “all who create and use thinking about the future do so on the bases of values and myths about what is real, valuable...

...Jack E. Smith © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 --> Futures Social trends Sociology Culture A trend is something that is just beginning to percolate – but is happening in a significant enough manner that we can see how it is going to change us. Somehow. To enforce...