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Vol. 18 No. 4 June 2014

Title	Author
Articles
Collaborative Futures: Integrating Foresight with Design in Large Scale Innovation Processes-Seeing and Seeding the Futures of Europe	Angela Wilkinson,Martin Mayer & Verena Ringler
The Futures of Islamic Banking in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)	Nedal El-Ghattis
CLA as Process: Mapping the Theory and Practice of the Multiple	Marcus Bussey
Using Causal Layered Analysis to Understand the Alliance between Social Workers with Their Professional Association	Gilbert Fan&Joan N. W. Khng
The Effects of Scenario Planning on Antecedents to Participant Engagement at Work	Helen Allison Hawkins & Thomas J. Chermack
Report
Law Enforcement Leadership for a Changing World	Michael Outram, Rainer Brenner, Dougal McClelland & Anders Dorph
Executive Summary of the 2013‑14 State of the Future	Jerome Glenn
From Crops to Care: The Changing Nature of Health Care in Rural Australia	Willow Pryor

The Open Futures Library: One Step Toward a Global Foresight Commons

Gareth Priday, Tim Mansfield & José Ramos

 

Vol. 18 No. 3 March 2014

Title	Author
Articles
Narrative and Futures Studies: Introduction by the Special Editor	Vuokko Jarva
Introduction to Narrative For Futures Studies	Vuokko Jarva
Creating Alternative Selves: The Use of Futures Discourse in Narrative Therapy	Ivana Milojević
Untangling Teachers’ Images of Their Futures Through Their Responses to the Futures Narratives of Children	Debra Bateman
Tales of Our Tomorrows: Transmedia Storytelling and Communicating About the Future	Peter von Stackelberg & Ruth Eira Jones
Narrative Rhetorics in Scenario Work: Sensemaking and Translation	Zhan Li
Essay
Extending the Scenario Horizon: Putting Narratives to Work	Marcus Bussey
Postcards as Doorways	Andrew Curry & Victoria Ward
Report
The Challenges of Living Scenarios for Australia in 2050	Kristin Alford, Steven Cork, John Finnigan, Nicky Grigg, Beth Fulton & Michael Raupauch

 

Vol. 18 No. 2 December 2013

Title	Author
Articles
Learnings From Futures Studies: Learnings From Dator	Sohail Inayatullah
Exploring the Possibility of East Asian Futures Studies: Reinterpreting Dator through Zhuangzi	SeongWon Park
Possible Scenarios on the Future of the Panatag Shoal	Shermon O. Cruz
Scenario Analyses of the Futures of Journalism Profession	Jari Kaivo-oja
The Common Futures of India and Pakistan: A New Approach	Gautam Wahi
Symposium
Introduction to the Festschrift for Jim Dator	Christopher B. Jones & Wendy L. Schultz
Introducing James Allen Dator: A Great Friend, Scholar and Teacher	Eleonora Barbieri Masini
James A. Dator: The Man Who Beats the Drum for Futures Studies	Wendell Bell
Surfing Dator's Tsunamis of Change: Confessions of a Part-time Futurist	Christopher B. Jones
Serendipitous Connections and the Future of Futures Studies	Debora Halbert
Being a Datorling	Jordi Serra
Jim Dator: The Living Embodiment of Futures Studies	Jake F. Dunagan
Structure Matters: Method to Manoa School's Madness or How I became convinced Jim Dator is a robot!	John A. Sweeney

 

Vol. 18 No. 1 September 2013

Title	Author
Articles
Using Gaming to Understand the Patterns of the Future - The Sarkar Game in Action	Sohail Inayatullah
Neo-Growth in Future Post-Carbon Cities	Sirkka Heinonen
Impact of ICT Based Education on the Information Society	László Duma&Eszter Monda
Offering the Reference Model of Backcasting Approach for Achieving Sustainable Development	Fatemeh Saghafi,Alireza Aliahmadi,Seyyed Sepehr Ghazy Noori&Mansoureh Hourali
Forging the Synergy between Anticipation and Innovation: The Futures Action Model	José M. Ramos
Report
The World Futures Studies Federation celebrates 40 years – Bucharest 2013	Aubrey Yee
Book Review
Prospectiva e innovación, Vol. 1, Visiones (Prospective and Innovation, Vol. 1, Visions).	Antonio Alonso Concheiro
Making a Conscious Future-Responsible Leadership	Alireza Hejazi

Vol. 17 No. 4 June 2013

Title	Author
Articles
Dryland: Artificial Islands as New Oceanscapes	Fabrizio Bozzato
Addressing Culturality: Exploring Alternative and more Authentic Routes for (Australian) Higher Education Organizations	José W.I.M. van den Akker
Professionalizing foresight: Why do it, where it stands, and what needs to be done	Andy Hines&Jeff Gold
Public sector horizon scanning – stocktake of the Australasian Joint Agencies Scanning Network	Kate Delaney&Louise Osborne
The Futures of Power in the Network Era	Jose M. Ramos
Essay
Rethinking Guanxi Towards an Ethical Imagination of Asian Sociality	SungTae Lee
Foresight Work as Bridge Building: Poetry, Presence and Beyond	Marcus Bussey
Report
Communicating Power: Technological Innovation and Social Change in the Past, Present, and Futures	Jim Dator,John A. Sweeney,Aubrey Yee&Aaron Rosa
Futures 101 for the Top Guns	Umar Sheraz

 

Vol. 17 No. 3 March 2013

Title	Author
Articles
The Future of Water Resource Management in the Muslim World*	Syeda Mariya Absar
Climate Change and Futures Epistemologies: Tensions, Trends and Possibilities in Climate Discourses Epitomised by Three Prominent Climate Experts	Stephen McGrail
Energy Bonanza or Abyss: Israel’s Options for the Future	David Lefutso
Woman Branded Liar by High Court Judge: Leadership, Professionalism and Ethics for The Future	Eddie Blass
Futures of Ageing in Singapore	Wong Kai Wen
Symposium
Introduction I: Bringing bodies and minds together	Jim Dator
Introduction II	Aubrey Yee
Introduction and Short Pieces	John A. Sweeney
Future Visions for 2030: Of Economy, Sustainability and Employment	Juha Saukkonen et. al
The Dawn of our Patent Futures	Heather Frey
The Great Rebirth: The Future of Capitalism, Economy, and Exchange	Christopher Manfredi
“Generation Screwed” - Are US youths opting or being forced out of society?	Janet Faulkner
Emerging Issues Leading Korea into a Dream Society	Bumchul Shin
A Canticle for Mary Sue: What Transmedia Aesthetics might do for Futures Communication	Zhan Li
Occlusive Reality	Aaron Rosa
Bad Language: Emerging Issues in Electronic Discourse	Rex Troumbley
Dator’s 2nd Law of South Park: Imagining (poorly animated) Futures of Religion, Technology, & Culture	John A. Sweeney
Mutant Futurists in the 21st Century	Jose Ramos

 

Vol. 17 No. 2 December 2012

Title	Author
Articles
The Changing Social Meaning of Pets and Their Alternative Futures	Yaling Chou
Class Warfare, Anarchy and the Future Society	Mathew Maavak
Using Causal Layered Analysis to Explore the Relationship Between Academics and Administrators in Universities	Maree Conway
A Valid Matter for Managerial Foresight	Martin Amsteus
Climate Change and Hydro-conflicts The Storylines of Sudr Scenarios: A Platform for Adaptation	Mohamed Tawfic Ahmed,Mohamed A Osman,Naglaa Loutfy & Mahmoud Farag Mahmoud
Essay
Consciousness, Cosmic Evolution, and the Technological Singularity	Tom Lombardo
Ta’wil Al-Ahaadith: A Philological Perspective to Semantic Roots of Strategic Foresight in Ancient Arabic	Vahid V. Motlagh
Report
Malaysian Universities in Transformation	Sohail Inayatullah
Future Arts, Media, and Entertainment: Seeds for 2020	Kate McCallum
Book Reviews
An Invitation to the Futures: A Review of Wendell Bell’s ‘Memories of the Future’	Gareth Priday
A Systematic Approach in Strategic Foresight	Alireza Hejazi

Vol. 17 No. 1  September 2012

Title	Author
Introduction
Special Edition on the Communication of Foresight	Jose Ramos
Articles
Imaginal Visioning for Prophetic Foresight	Oliver Markley
Scenario Art: A New Futures Method that Uses Art to Support Decision-Making for Sustainable Development	Aleta Lederwasch
Forward Theatre and Causal Layered Analysis	Sabina Head
Experience-based Exploration of Complex Energy Systems	Andreas Ligtvoet & Emile J. L. Chappin
Foresight in a Network Era: Peer-producing Alternative Futures	Jose Ramos, Tim Mansfield, & Gareth Priday
Essay
Open Foresight	Venessa Miemis, John Smart, & Alvis Brigis
Evolutionary Guidance Media: an Integral Framework for Foresight Communication	Dana Klisanin
Symposium
Introduction to the Symposium on Complexity, Narrative, Participation, and Images of the Future	Wendy L. Schultz
Design Futurescaping	Justin Pickard, Anab Jain, & Jon Ardern
Crowd-sourced Collective Intelligence Platform for Participatory Scenarios and Foresight	Noah Raford
Scenarios: A Hero’s Journey across Turbulent Systems	Wendy Schultz, Christian Crews, & Richard Lum
Massively Multi-player Futuring: IFTF’s Foresight Engine	Jake Dunagan
The Singularity is Boring: an Open, Collaborative ‘Mock-up’	Justin Pickard, Noah Raford, Wendy Schultz, Jake Dunagan, Scott Smith, & uncounted others
Coda: Communicating Futures - an Uncommon Urge	Scott Smith

Vol. 16 No. 4  June 2012

Title	Author
Introduction
Introduction to this Special Edition on Australian Contributions to the Millennium Project	Anita Kelleher
Articles
How Can Everyone Have Sufficient Clean Water Without Conflict?	Anita Kelleher
Responding to the Millennium Project’s Energy Challenge: A Futurist’s Perspective	Joshua Floyd
Australia’s Potential Internet Futures: Incasting Alternatives Using a New Technology Images Framework	Alex Burns & Stephen McGrail
Why the Creation of a Better World is Premised on Achieving Gender Equity and on Celebrating Multiple Gender Diversities	Ivana Milojevic
The Complex Futures of Emerging Technologies: Challenges and Opportunities for Science Foresight and Governance in Australia	Kristin Alford, Sarah Keenihan & Stephen McGrail
Essay
New Windows onto New Worlds: Final Thoughts on the Future of Strategic Foresight	Richard Hames
Reports
Sustainable Development and Climate Change	Chris Riedy
Towards a Sustainable Balance of Population and Resources: Australia to 2050	Neville Bruce
How Can the Threat of New and Emerging Infectious Diseases be Reduced?	Graeme Woodrow
Work in Progress Report on the Relevance of Rediscovering the Australian Bush Mechanic as a Credible Chiro-pedagogical Modality of Critical Futures Praxis	Paul Wildman
Announcement
Jan Lee Martin Award Announcement

 

Vol. 16 No. 3  March 2012

Title	Author
Articles
Unpacking Images of China Using Causal Layered Analysis	Jeanne Hoffman
‘Cracks in the System’: Problematisation of the Future and the Growth of Anticipatory and Interventionist Practices	Stephen McGrail
Future Peace: Breaking Cycles of Violence through Futures Thinking	Tessa Finlev
Promoting Diversity in Long Term Policy Development: The SMARTT Case of Norway	Jan E. Karlsen & Erik F. Øverland
Peering into the Futures of Liberal Arts	Shermon Ortega Cruz
Essay
International Affairs in the New Millennium: A Futures Perspective	Sesh Velamoor
A Simple Guide to Futurewatching	Jennifer Coote
The Spaces in Between	Alan Fricker
Book Review
Wisdom and Futures Studies	Vahid Motlagh
Announcement
Jan Lee Martin Best Publication Award

Vol. 16 No. 2  December 2011

Title	Author
Articles
Screenplay As Scenario Vehicle: Unpacking the Implications of Korean Unification in an Asian Remake of "A Clockwork Orange"	Timothy Dolan
Forward Theatre: An Introduction	Sabina Head
Learning English in Taiwan's Elementary Schools	Wu, Tzu-Ying
Crisis, Deep Meaning and the Opportunity for Change	Marcus T. Anthony
Global Megacrisis: A Survey of Four Scenarios on a Pessimism-Optimism Axis	William Halal & Michael Marien
Essay
Exploring the Corporate Culture Gap	Jan Lee Martin
Symposium
Introduction to the Symposium on the Global Megacrisis	Jose M. Ramos
Response to the Marien-Halal Debate	Jim Dator
Towards a Planetary Conversation?	Anita Kelleher
Responding to the Global Megacrisis	Richard A. Slaughter
Towards Planetary Consciousness?	Vuokko Jarva
Global Megacrisis and the P2P Response	Michel Bauwens
Manifesting Upside Recovery Instead of Downside Fear: Five Ways Megacrisis Anticipation Can Proactively Improve Futures Research and Social Policy	Oliver Markley
Towards Four point Nine	Marcus Barber
Global Megacrisis and Response: A Perspective from India	Rakesh Kapoor
Creating Futures Movement One Step at a Time	Kuo-Hua Chen
Learning from Japan: Megacrisis	Ryota Ono
Which Global Prospect to Bet on: Rosy or Gloomy	Vahid V. Motlagh
Apocalyptic Fears Have no Basis in Fact. We Are on Our Way up, Not down	Ronald G. Havelock
The Megacrisis and the New Master Paradigm: Toward Shared Understanding	Michael Marien
Moving Ahead on the Global Megacrisis: Useful and Not So Useful Responses	William Halal

Vol. 16 No. 1  September 2011

Title	Author
Articles
Future Evolution of the Human Brain	Arthur Saniotis & Maciej Henneberg
Creativity, Wisdom, and Our Evolutionary Future	Thomas Lombardo
The Signification Process of the Future Sign	Osmo Kuusi & Elina Hiltunen
Steps Toward an Explicit Ontology of the Future	Roberto Poli
The Rise and Fall of Growth: The Inappropriateness of Continuous Unchecked Growth	Robert Burke
Essay
Education: Time to rethink the Industrial model?	Graham H. May
Symposium
The Emergence of Subtle Organicism	Michael Towsey
Microvita and Other Spaces: Deepening Research through Intuitional Practice	Marcus Bussey
Consciousness and the Physical World: Ontological Reflections on Michael Towsey's "The Emergence of Subtle Organism"	Thomas Lombardo
Toward Higher Consciousness Theory and Research	William Halal
Situating "Microvita" within the Panoply of Disciplinary Jargon	Timothy Dolan
The Emergence of Subtle Organicism A Reply to Comments from M. Bussey, T. Dolan, W. Halal and T. Lombardo	Michael Towsey
Report
An Invigorating Dialogue on Consciousness	Vuokko Jarva
Crowdsourcing the Future: The Foresight Process at Finpro	Elina Hiltunen

Vol. 15 No. 4  June 2011

Title	Author
Articles
Path Dependence, Path Breaking, and Path Creation: A Theoretical Scaffolding for Futures Studies?	Victor Tiberius
Towards a "Planned Path Emergence" View on Future Genesis	Victor Tiberius
Individual Path Dependency and Social Inertia: Facing the Crudeness of Sociology	Marc R. H. Roedenbeck
Creating and Breaking Paths in Organizational Culture: A Cognitive-Evolutionary Perspective	Udo Staber
Path Dependency and Path Creation: Continuity vs. Fundamental Change in National Economies	Gerd Schienstock
Social Networks for Path Creation: Education for Sustainable Development Matters	Nina Kolleck, Gerhard de Haan & Robert Fischbach
Path Dependency and Path Creation in a Strategic Perspective	Tamás Gáspár
Symposium
Teaching and Learning the Future: Process Part 3: "So You Want to Teach the Future?"	Stephen F. Steele
How to Teach Futures Studies: Some Experiences	Eleonora Barbieri Masini
Relational Futures in Preschool	Heidi Gustafson
Getting Started in Educational Futuristics	Arthur B. Shostak
Good Roads and Potholes: Teaching Foresight to Younger Children	Timothy C. Mack
Unexpected Issues and Solutions: Emerge from Environmental Manipulation Strategy	John Cokley & Marisha McAuliffe
Case Study: Futurizing the K-12 Teaching Practice	Kay E. Strong & Peter C. Bishop
Report
Transforming Public Institutions: Some Conclusions from Applications of Scenario Planning Method to Determine Strategic Directions	Azhari-Karim
A Vision for Mining and Minerals: Applying Causal Layered Analysis and Art	Aleta Lederwasch, Leah Mason, Jane Daly, Timothy Prior & Damien Giurco
Energy Foresight Pakistan: Lessons from Energy Expert Panel meetings	Badar Sultan Minhas
Futurewatch	Jennifer Coote

Vol. 15 No. 3  March 2011

Title	Author
Articles
Editor's Introduction to This Special Issue on "Sustainable Futures"	Stephen McGrail
Changing Cultural Values and the Transition to Sustainability	Hardin Tibbs
Futures of the Climate Action Movement: Insights from an Integral Futures Approach	Chris Riedy
Leveraging Organisational Values for Sustainability Initiatives	Marcus Barber
The Quality of Development Index – A New Headline Indicator of Progress	John Stutz
Avatar... and the 'Sustainabullies' of Higher Education	Patricia Kelly
Environmentalism in Transition? Emerging Perspectives, Issues and Futures Practices in Contemporary Environmentalism	Stephen McGrail
Essays
Research and Action toward the Upside of Down	Oliver Markley
Designing 2050: Imagining and Building a Global Sustainable Society	Peter Ellyard
Report
Alfred Deakin Lectures 2010: Brave New World? The Climate Change Challenge	Elizabeth Rudd & Robyn White
Book Review: The Sixth Wave: How to Succeed in a Resource-limited World	Stephen McGrail

Vol. 15 No. 2  December 2010

Title	Author
Articles
Asia's Exotic Futures in the Far beyond the Present	Vahid V. Motlagh
Mining Futures: Beyond the Headlines	Umar Sheraz
Revisiting Adhocracy: From Rhetorical Revisionism to Smart Mobs	Timothy E. Dolan
Politics for the Neurocentric Age	Jake F. Dunagan
Intersections of Strategic Planning and Futures Studies: Methodological Complementarities	Curtis W. Roney
Essays
Scared of Our Own Shadow? The Burka as A Metaphorical Mirror for Imperious Culture	Anthony Judge
Futurists in Australia	Ryota Ono
Symposium – Guest Editor Jan Lee Martin
Statisticians: New Champions For the Future?	Jan Lee Martin
Measuring what Matters to Make a Difference	Jon Hall
Enlisting Futures Studies in a Democratic Vision of Progress Program	Mike Salvaris
Our Bold Future: How Our Tiger Changed Its Stripes	Colin Russo
The New Oregon Model: Envision-> Plan ->Achieve	Steven Ames
Anticipatory Democracy and Aspirational Futures	Clement Bezold
Separating Goals from Measures, and Economic Growth as the Primary Measure	Jim Dator
Report
Alternative Futures for Academic Libraries	David J. Staley & Kara J. Malenfant
The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis	William E. Halal
Futurewatch	Jennifer Coote

Vol. 15 No. 1  September 2010

Title	Author
Articles
Risk Mysterianism and Cognitive Boosters	Philippe Verdoux
Implementing a Student-Centered Learning Approach at Vietnamese Higher Education Institutions: Barriers under Layers of Casual Layered Analysis (CLA)	Pham Thi Hong Thanh
Towards a Transmodern Transformation of our Global Society: European Challenges and Opportunities	Marc Luyckx Ghisi
Sustainability and Executive Education: A Call for a New Model	Robert Burke
Can We Make the Changes? Insights from the Edge	Patricia Kelly
Essays
Management Studies and a Changing World	Sesh Velamoor
Fostering New Values and Stories in Higher Education: What Climate Change Brings to the Educational Table	Marcus Bussey
Symposium – Guest Editor Stephen Steele
Teaching and Learning the Future: Projects and Programs Part 2: "So You Want to Teach the Future?"	Stephen Steele
Taking the Future to the Community	Steven T. Henick
Leading from the Future: A Review of the Regent Foresight Program	Jay Gary
Futures Literacy in New Zealand	Stephanie Pride, Bog Frame, & Derek Gill
A Course on Foresight for Sponsors and Practitioners	Denis Loveridge, Michael Keenan, & Ozcan Saritas
Report
Futurewatch	Jennifer Coote

Vol. 14 No. 4  June 2010

Title	Author
Articles
Future Shock – Discussing the Changing Temporal Architecture of Daily Life	Mika Pantzar
Nano Dreams and Nightmares: Emerging Technoscience and the Framing and (re)Interpreting of the Future, Present and Past	Stephen McGrail
Forest Futures: A Causal Layered Analysis	Amelia Ariell
All-Embracing (Triune) Medicine of the Individual's Health: A Biocosmological Perspective	Konstantin S. Khroutski
Speculative Stem Cell Futures: Some Prospective Commercial Models for Induced Pluripotent Stem (iPS) Cell Based Therapies	Olivia Harvey
Symposium – Teaching and Learning the Future
"So You Want to Teach the Future?" A Symposium on Teaching and Learning the Future – Overview	Stephen F. Steele
Why Teach the Future?	Peter C. Bishop & Kay E. Strong
The Next Wave	Verne Wheelwright
Futures Studies Meeting a Growing Demand for 21st Century Education	Gary Marx
Multidisciplinary and Interdisciplinary Approaches to Futures Education	Thomas Lombardo
Didactics of Futures Studies	Victor Tiberius
Hidden Assumptions that Limit Foresight and Other Education	Dave Stein
Futurewatch	Jennifer Coote

Vol. 14 No. 3  March 2010

Title	Author
Articles
Timeline 22-Step Model for Tracking and Forecasting Public Policy Change	Graham T. T. Molitor
The Cross as Metaphor for Cross-Cultural Education	José van den Akker
Is Sustainability the Enemy of Progress or the Key to Creating a Future Worth Having? Three Provocative Perspectives on Sustainability, Climate Change and the Future	Stephen McGrail
Symposium – The futures of the global financial crisis
From Illness to Health: Mapping the Futures of the Global Financial Crisis	Sohail Inayatullah
Canaries in the Mind: Exploring How the Financial Crisis Impacts 21st Century Future-Mindfulness	Angela Wilkinson & Rafael Ramirez
Remedies to Global Crisis: "Allopathic" or "Homeopathic"? Metaphorical Complementarity of "Conventional" and "Alternative" Models	Anthony Judge
Essays
What Kind of Crisis Is It?	Andrew Curry & Hardin Tibbs
Is Our Monetary Structure a Systemic Cause for Financial Instability? Evidence and Remedies from Nature	Bernard Lietaer, Robert Ulanowicz, Sally Goerner& Nadia McLaren
Multiple Narratives of the Futures of the Global Financial Crisis	Sohail Inayatullah
Report
Australia 2025: Three Global Scenarios. A Framework for Analysing Australia's Possible Future Workplaces and Workforce Development Requirements	Peter Saul
Futurewatch	Jennifer Coote

Vol. 14 No. 2  November 2009

Title	Author
Articles
FuturistsAlternative Futures at the Manoa School	Jim Dator
Deep Futures and China's Environment	Marcus T. Anthony
Divided China Stands: The Two Half Chinas Alternative	Maorong Jiang
El Maghara Scenario A Search for Sustainability and Equity: An Egyptian Case Study	Mohamed Tawfic Ahmed, Mohamed Saleh, Adel Farid Abdelkadir, & Ahmed Abdelrehim
Iran's Future Scenarios: An Illustrative Discussion of Multiple Mental Models	Vahid V. Motlagh
Some Theories of Social Change for Futures Practitioners	Jonathan Peck
Essays
Jim Dator's Alternative Futures and the Path to IAF's Aspirational Futures	Clement Bezold
Symposium Essays
Zero Zone Theory and Futures Studies: Two Ridiculous Ideas?	Jim Dator
The Second Metric Revolution May Be Underway	Seong Won Park
Can One Parameter Provide the Key to the Understanding of Natural Phenomena? Can There Be a Starting Theory to Explain Everything?	Dong Bong Yang
Zero Zone Theory Expressing Everything via One Parameter and Its Application to Find New Equations	Dong Bong Yang, Sang Zee Lee, Myung Hwan Oh
Zero-Zone Theory and Its Implication in Our Civilization: A Summary	Kai Hong
Plato's Noble Lie and the Imaginary Number i: An Introduction to the Zero Zone System of Measurement in the Context of Plato's Republic and the Laws	Timothy Desmond
Report
2009 State of the Future: Executive Summary	Jerome Glenn, Theodore Gordon, & Elizabeth Florescu
Futurewatch	Jennifer Coote

 

Vol. 14 No. 1  August 2009

Title	Author
Articles
Foresight Styles Assessment: Testing a New Tool for Consulting Futurists	Jay E. Gary
Present and Future Developments in Cognitive Enhancement Technologies	Arthur Saniotis
Entropy and Immortality	Charles Tandy
The Present and Future of Americanization in South Korea	Seong Won Park
My Journey as a Futurist	Peter Saul
Essays
Community, Creative Imagination and Cultures of Peace: A Peace Education and Critical Futurist Perspective	Francis P. Hutchinson
Defeating the Taliban: Creating an Alternative Future Through Reframing and Humour	Sohail Inayatullah
The Future Has Arrived: Forecasts of the 2015 Economic Boom	William E. Halal
Report
Futurewatch	Jennifer Coote

 

Vol. 13 No. 4  May 2009

Title	Author
Introduction
Reflective Practice and Practitioners	Rowena Morrow & Peter Bishop
Articles & Essays
Reframing the Future	Jennifer Jarratt & John B. Mahaffie
Footprints of the Future: Timelines and Exploratory Forecasts in Futures Research	Peter von Stackelberg
Roads Less Travelled: Different Methods, Different Futures	Andrew Curry & Wendy Schultz
Should Probabilities Be Used with Scenarios?	Stephen M. Millett
Foresight Maturity Model (FMM): Achieving Best Practices in the Foresight Field	Terry Grim
Aspirational Futures	Clem Bezold
Futures for Everyone	Verne Wheelwright
Learning from the Politics of Futures	Steve Gould
Report
Futurewatch	Jennifer Coote

 

Vol. 13 No. 3  February 2009

Title	Author
Articles
Philanthropy Transformed: Emerging Change and Changes in Charities	Wendy L. Schultz
Causal Layered Pedagogy: Rethinking Curricula Practice	Marcus Bussey
The Unholy Trinity, Plus One	Jim Dator
Technological Singularity and Transcendental Monism: Co-producers of Sustainable Alternative Futures	Jan H. Naude
Foresight Styles Assessment: A Theory Based Study in Competency and Change	Natalie Dian
Scenario Symposium
Questioning Scenarios	Sohail Inayatullah
Scenarios: Worth the Effort?	Graham T.T. Molitor
Scenarios in Action: Comments and New Directions	Fabrice Roubelat
From Strategic Foresight to Conversations about Alternative and Desired Futures Using Scenarios to Transform the Present	Robert Burke
Utility and Drawbacks of Scenario Planning in Taiwan and China	Jui-Kuei Chen
Scenarios Practices: In Search of Theory	Angela Wilkinson
An Integral Approach to Scenarios	Peter Hayward & Rowena Morrow
From Foresight to Insight: Using Scenarios Well	Andrew Curry
Windows for the Mind: The Use of Scenario Planning for Enhancing Decision-Making and Managing Uncertainty	Gary Saliba
Stepping into, or through, the Mirror: Embodying Alternative Scenario Patterns	Anthony Judge
Questioning Scenarios	Marcus Barber
Reinventing the Wheel: Common Sense and Responsibility in Futures Studies	Jordi Serra
Scenarios: Process and Outcome	Elina Hiltunen
Who will Engage in Scenario Planning Ten to Twenty Years from Now?	Rosaleen Love
If it Works, Use it: Symposium Response by Graham Molitor	Graham T.T. Molitor
Essays
Reflection on Thirty Years Involvement with Futures Thinking from a UK Perspective	Graham H. May
Wendell Bell and Oliver W. Markley: Two Futurists' Views of the Preferable, the Possible and the Probable	Darrell Kicker
Optimizing The Obama Shift	David Loye
Futurewatch	Jennifer Coote

 

Vol. 13 No. 2  November 2008

Title	Author
Articles
Making Peace: Kosovo/a and Serbia	Ivana Milojevic
The End of National Belonging? Future Scenarios of National Belonging from Migration Experiences of Taiwanese Businessmen in Shenzhen	Jian-Bang Deng
Alternative Futures for Panama's Systematic Development	Jose Polo
The Next 50 Years for Malaysia: An Inquiry Using Alternative Futures Methods	Azhari-Karim
Prenatal Bioethics, Advocacy, and the Requirement of a Third Moral Space	David Turnbull
Essays
A Challenging Conversation on Integral Futures: Embodied Foresight & Trialogues	Josh Floyd, Alex Burns & Jose Ramos
Wretched or Contented? The Politics of Past Life	Richard Eckersley

 

Vol. 13 No. 1  August 2008

Title	Author
Articles
Seeing in Multiple Horizons: Connecting Futures to Strategy	Andrew Curry & Anthony Hodgson
The Imperative of Strategic Foresight to Strategic Thinking	Luke van der Laan
The Archetypal, Twenty First Century Resurrection of the Ancient Image of the Green Man	Phyllis Araneo
Religious Diversity, Interreligious Dialogue, and Alternative Religious Futures: Challenges for an Interdependent World	Linda Groff
A Personal Vision of the Integrated Society	Marcus Anthony
Essays
Imagining New Futures: The Simple Power of Story	Jan Lee Martin
Global Sustainability: How can Business Schools Contribute?	Robert Burke
Reports
Futurewatch	Jennifer Coote

 

Vol. 12 No. 4  May 2008

Title	Author
Articles
Polemics of Healing: Storytelling, Refugees and Futures	Arthur Saniotis & Farahnaz Sobhanian
The Crisis of Value and the Ethical Economy	Adam Arvidsson, Michel Bauwens, & Nicolai Peitersen
Good Sources of Weak Signals: A Global Study of Where Futurists Look For Weak Signals	Elina Hiltunen
A New Look at the Cross-Impact Matrix and its Application in Futures Studies	Kenneth Chao
Towards a Futures Discourse in Mainland China	Marcus Anthony
Essays
Beyond the Pendulum of the General and the Landlord-Politician: Understanding and Creating Alternative Futures for Pakistan	Sohail Inayatullah
Reports
A Layered Approach to Horizon Scanning: Identifying Future Issues in Military and Veterans' Health	Jane Palmer & Niki Ellis
Visionary National Economic Planning: Plans, Potentials and Progress	Graham T.T. Molitor
Futurewatch	Jennifer Coote

 

Vol. 12 No. 3 February 2008

Title	Author
Articles
Pedagogical Practice after the Information Age	Erica McWilliam & Shane Dawson
Futures Education: Catalyst for Our Times	Richard A. Slaughter
Navigating by the Stars: Using Futures Methodologies to Create a Preferred Vision for the Workforce, a Case Study	Debbie Terranova
Towards Global Assessment of Innovative Projects: The MagicEye Method	Patrick Corsi
Mythogenesis and Nanotechnology: Future Medical Directions	Arthur Saniotis
Essays
What can Leaders Really be Held Accountable for?	Peter Saul
The World has Entered a New Zone of History: An Assessment of Global Trends	William Van Dusen Wishard
The Evolutionary Time of Awakening: Do We Need a Third (neither Eastern, nor Western) Way in the World Evolution?	Konstantin S. Khroutski
Speeches
Part I: Oncoming "Leisure Era": How We are Getting There	Graham T.T. Molitor
Part II: Historical Perspectives: Less Time "WORKING"	Graham T.T. Molitor
Meeting the Challenges of Contemporary Energy Crises	Jan Anthony Chlapowski
Report
Book Review Constructing Future Higher Education Scenarios: Insights from Universiti Sains Malaysia	Maree Conway
Futurewatch	Jennifer Coote

Vol. 12 No. 2 November 2007

Guest Editors: Jose Ramos and Allan O’Connor

Title	Author
Articles
Editors’ Introduction	Jose Ramos & Allan O'Connor
Towards an ‘Integral’ View of Entrepreneurship	Joseph Voros
Young Dreamers: An Explorative Study on How Techno-Starters Look to the Future	Patrick A. van der Duin & Dap Hartmann
State Foresight, Innovation and Entrepreneurship: The Case of Economic Development, E-Learning and Outsourcing Industry in Uganda	Barton Kunstler & William Tiga Tita
Innovating Responses to Crisis: Exploring the Principle of Non-Action as a Foresight Tool	Giovanna Braidotti
Transitioning to New Technologies: Challenges and Choices in a Changing World	Jim Falk
Essays
What Future Conceptual and Social Innovations?	Bengt-Arne Vedin
Responsibility for the Future	Erzsébet Nováky
Experiential Foresight: Participative Simulation Enables Social Reflexivity in a Complex World	Barbara M. Bok
Stealth Foresight for Innovation: Creating Support for Creative Change in Large Organisations in Australia	Tom Graves
Report
Futurewatch	Jennifer Coote

Vol. 12 No. 1 August 2007

Title	Author
Articles
The Evolution and Psychology of Future Consciousness	Tom Lombardo
Global Education from a Neohumanist Perspective: A Musical Exposition	Marcus Bussey
Educational Programs and Student Opinions About the Future	Mehmet Gültekin
Future Evolution of Humanity	Linda Groff
The Return to Multi-Causality	Mika Aaltonen
Conversations
Reflections on Marcus Anthony's Not-So- Integral Futures	Richard A. Slaughter
Creating New Spaces for Transformation: A Response to Richard Slaughter	Marcus Anthony
Looking Towards the Futures Studies Renaissance: A Conversation between Richard A. Slaughter and Wendell Bell	Richard A. Slaughter
Essay
Misuse of the Potential of the Conveyor Metaphor: Recognition of the Circular Dynamic Essential to its Operation	Anthony Judge
Reports
Finding Our Way to the Future: Directions for a City of Opportunity	Lee McGowan & Heidi Russo
The State of the World	Johan Galtung
Futurewatch	Jennifer Coote

Vol. 11 No. 4 May 2007

Title	Author
Articles
Governing the Futures: Dream or Survival Societies?	Jim Dator
The New China: Big Brother, Brave New World or Harmonious Society?	Marcus Anthony
Alternative Futures of Occupational Therapy and Therapists	Sohail Inayatullah
What is the Debate around Paid Maternity Leave Really about? Using CLA to Delve under the Surface...	Rowena Morrow
Scenario Network Mapping	Dennis List
Essay
The World System: A Life Cycle Discourse	Johan Galtung
Reports
Living in the European Ubiquitous Society	Mika Mannermaa
Futurewatch	Jennifer Coote

Vol. 11 No. 3 February 2007

Title	Author
Articles
Macro-Perspectives beyond the World System	Joseph Voros
The Collapse and Transformation of Our World	Duncan M. Taylor & Graeme M. Taylor
Social and Genomic Constructions of Chimera	Arthur Saniotis
A Drop in the Ocean for Foresight Practitioners	Marcus Barber
Types of Time Machines and Practical Time Travel	Charles Tandy
Essay Symposium
The Futures of Australia - Editor's Introduction	Sohail Inayatullah
A Post Howard-Costello Scenario	Sohail Inayatullah
Australia in 2025: A Happy Scenario	Peter Saul
Australia 2026: A Tale of Two Australias	Marcus Bussey
Post Howard Australia: Decline and Hope	Steve Vinay Gunther
Australia 2026: The Conscious Country	Barbara M. Bok
Report
Futurewatch	Jennifer Coote

Vol. 11 No. 2 November 2006

Title	Author
Articles
Toward a Politics of Possibility: Charting Shifts in Utopian imagination through the World Social Forum Process	Jose Ramos
Ambiguous Futures: Global Warming and the Third World	Arthur Saniotis
The Development of the Higher Education Sector of Vietnam within the Globalization Discourse: Using Futures methodologies	Pham Thi Hong Thanh
Was It a Wild Card or Just Our Blindness to Gradual Change?	Elina Hiltunen
The Egyptian Higher Education System: Towards Better Quality in the Future	Nahla M. El Sebai
Essay Symposium
Editor's Introduction
The Middle East: Building Blocks For Peace	Johan Galtung
Shadow Dancing: Colonizing Racisms and their Discontents	Marcus Bussey
The Return of the Neo-Kharjites	Ziauddin Sardar
Terror, Trauma and Healing	Steve Vinay Gunther
Guidelines for Critical Dialogue between Worldviews as exemplified by the Need for Non-antisemitic Dialogue with Israelis?	Anthony Judge
Essay
Not-So-Integral Futures	Marcus Anthony
Futurewatch	Jennifer Coote

Vol. 11 No. 1 August 2006

Title	Author
Articles
Nesting Social-Analytical Perspectives: An Approach to Macro-Social Analysis	Jose Ramos
Historical Simulations – Motivational, Ethical and Legal Issues	Peter S. Jenkins
The Culture of China's Space Program: A Peking Opera in Space	Stacey Solomone
Applying an Integral Framework to Government Foresight Projects	Maree Conway
Wildcards – Signals from a Future Near You	Marcus Barber
A Political Approach to Building Female Capacity in Science and Technology for Poverty Alleviation in Transitional Societies in Africa	John W. Forje
Reports
Which Identity for Australians?	Sohail Inayatullah
Futurewatch	Jennifer Coote

Vol. 10 No. 4 May. 2006

Title	Author
Articles
Frail and Feeble Mind: Challenges to Emerging Global Consciousness	Christopher B. Jones
Two Social Practices to Support Emergence of a Global Collective	Christopher Riedy
Critical Spirituality: Towards a Revitalised Humanity	Marcus Bussey
Beyond the Mundane - Towards Post-Conventional Futures Practice	Richard Slaughter
A Genealogy of the Western Rationalist Hegemony	Marcus Anthony
Essays
Towards a Cosmic Society: A Tantric Perspective	Dada Shambhushivananda
A Role for Business Schools in Leadership, Futures and Ethics	Robert Burke
Stealing from the Future	Ian Lowe
Where Science Meets Spirituality	Ervin Laszlo
Reports
The Paradox of Being: Dasein as a Potential "Ground" for Futures Work	Marcus Bussey
FUTUREWATCH	Jennifer Coote

Vol. 10 No. 3 Feb. 2006

Title	Author
Articles
Learning for Sustainable Futures： One Intervention	Patricia Kelly
Disability Experience： A Contribution from the Margins Towards a Sustainable Future	Erik Leipoldt
Access and Equity： Futures of an Educational Ideal	Marcus Bussey
Casual Layered Analysis as Pedagogy in Studies of Science and Technology	David Turnbull
Driving Forces on the Social Order	Guido Viik
Alternative Futures for Convenience Store Management in Asia： An E-Business Perspective	Yin-Chieh Hsu and Hui-Ling Huang
Essays
Visions That do not Reproduce Another Nightmare	Ashis Nandy
Seeing the Futures in Weak Signals	Peter Saul
Report
Report on the Conference： Global Soul, Global Mind, and Global Action- Futuring from Survival to Thrival	Christopher Jones
Futurewatch	Jennifer Coote

Vol. 10 No. 2 Nov. 2005

Title	Author
Article Symposium
Humanity of the Threshold： A Critical Enquiry	Jordi Serra
A Garden of Identities： Multiple Selves and Other Future	Ziauddin Sardar
The Era of Evolutionary Governance	Walter Truett Anderson
Which Way is Up？	Jan Huston
Walking Up to the New Future	Sohail Inayatullah
Conclusions： Blindly Going Where No One Has Gone Before	Jordi Serra
Articles
Imaging Disability Tomorrow	Gerard Goggin and Christopher Newell
Alternative Futures of Whiteness	Sabrina Hambel
The Educations of Humans and Transhumans  in the Twenty-First Century	Charles Tandy
Russian Philosophical Cosmology： One Step Backward and Two Steps Forward-Approaching the Universal Evolutionary Future	Konstantin S. Khroutski
Essay
On Becoming and Being a Futurist： An Interview with Wendell Bell	Levelhead 753(Wendell Bell)
Report
Futurewatch	Jennifer Coote

Vol. 10 No. 1 Aug. 2005

Title	Author
Articles
Milking Genes for All They're Worth： A Case Study of Biotechnology Foresight in New Zealand	Amy L. Fletcher
A Study on Theories of Society's Marco-Level Transformation	Tuomo Kuosa
Integrated Intelligence and the Psycho-Spiritual Imperatives of Mechanistic Science	Marcus Anthony
Corporation and Global Governance： A Multi-Cultural Future Perspective	Anita Kelleher
Maps, Metaphors and Myths： Beyond Impoverished Imagination about Peace, Development and the Future	Francis Hutchinson
Essays
Symposium of Action Learning： Introduction	Jose M. Ramos
A Personal Philosophy Anticipatory Action-Learning	Anita Kelleher
Bush Mechanics-Artificing a Future Our Children We Can Live With	Paul Wildman Evan Hadkins
The Appreciative Perspective of the Future	Rosa Alegria
Open Space for Futures： A Brief Introduction	Stuart Candy
Shikshantar： The People' s Institute for Rethinking Education and Development	Manish Jain
Futures in Government： Uses in Anticipatory Action Learning to Public Service Futures	Kate Teske
Sustaining Human Aspiration： Action Learning Falkirk	Graham Leicester
Maroochy 2025 Community Visioning & Action： A Case Study of Anticipatory Action Learning Practices in Use Within Maroochy Shire , Queensland, Australia	Steve Gould
Beyond Strategy Leadership, Futures & Ethics in A Complex World	Robert Burke
Review
Future Survey's Best Recent Books and Reports	Michael Marien

Vol. 9 No. 4 May. 2005

Title	Author
Articles
Mapping and Imagined Futures：Beyond Colonising Cartography	Francis Hutchinson
Humanicide：From Myth to Risk	Chris C. Stewart
Human：Machine, Ape or Dolphin？	Gary P. Hampson
How Do Make Sense of the Future？	Mika Aaltonen and Theodor Barth
Societal Factors Impacting on Images of the Future of the Youth in Japan	Ryoto Ono
Essays
Post-Industrial Urbanism and The Growth of Sustainability： Historical Trends, Present and Future Observations	Ian Morley
Opening Windows：Open Source Software and the Future of Business	Aaron C. T. Smith
Interview
Envisioning Local Futures： The Evolution of Community Visioning as a Tool for Managing Change	Paula A. Ding

Vol. 9 No. 3 Feb. 2005

Title	Author
Articles
Critical Spirituality as a Resource for Fostering Critical Pedagogy	Ivana Milojevic
Giving Hope back to our Young people: Creating a New Spiritual Mythology for Western Culture	Jennifer Gidley
Education for Transformation: Integrated Intelligence in the Knowledge Society and Beyond	Marcus Anthony
Visions for Global Justice through the Lens of Sarkar's Social Cycle	Josh Floyd
China: The Evolution Trends for Multiple Transitions and Income Gap Widening	Chen Zhizhou
Essays
Organizational and Management Dynamics in Foresight	Timothy C. Mack
Territorial Foresight: More than Planning Less than Prospective	Jordi Serra
History and the Future od the Real World	John L. Robinson
De-Colonizing the Future	Jim Dator
Report
Futurewatch	Jennifer Coote

Vol. 9 No. 2 Nov. 2004

Title	Author
Articles
Neuro-Futures: The Brain, Politics, and Power	Jake Dunagan
Anticipatory innovation	Jose M. Ramos
Queensland Transport Futures 2003-2020	David Kay
Fathoming the Ageing Workforce Debate: Causal Layered Analysis in Action	Debbie Terranova
Portfolio Approach and/or Firm Approach? Remarks on Futures of Strategic Bank Management	Jyh-Horng Lin, Shin-Heng Pao
Essays
Energy Futures for The Long-Term	Graham T.T. Molitor
Powerful Memes from 1957 –Footprints of Conscious Evolution?	Jan Lee Martin
The Virus Analogy	Jennifer Brice
Future Avoiders, Migrants and Natives	Sohail Inayatullah
On Teaching Futuristics: Utopian Thought and Non-traditional Students	Arthur B. Shostak
Post-Saps Light: A Review of Francis Fukuyama’s, Our Posthuman Future	Timothy Dolan
Report
From Micro-lessons to Meta-narratives at the Tamkang Futurama!	Jake Dunagan
Futurewatch	Jennifer Coote

Vol. 9 No. 1 Aug. 2004

Title	Author
Introduction
Macrohistory and the Future	Sohail Inayatullah
Articles
Engaging Macrohistory through the Present Moment	Anthony Judge
Macrohistory and City Futures	Phillip Daffara
Korea as the Wave of a Future:The Emerging Dream Society of Icons and Aesthetic Experience	Jim Dator and Yongseok Seo
Creative Altruism: The Prospects for a Common Humanity in the Age of Globalization	Jay Weinstein
Essays
Evolution and Enlightenment: The Conceivable Convergence	Walter Truett Anderson
The Life Cycle of Evolution: A Macro-Technological Analysis of Civilization’s Progress	William E. Halal
Coming of Age in the Heart : Cultural Evolution and the Initiation of Our Time	Anodea Judith
Social Evolution and the Planetary Crisis	Jay Earley
Report
APEC Center for Technology Foresight (APEC CTF)	Mayuree Vathanakuljarus
Health Futures @ Health2004	Sally Fawkes,Evelyne de Leeuw and Maurice Mittelmark Jose Maria Ramos
Futurewatch	Jennifer Coote

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