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List of Figures, Tables and Boxes | p. ix |
Acknowledgements | p. xi |
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations | p. xiii |
Researching Policy-Oriented Foresight in Action | p. 1 |
Aims | p. 2 |
Introduction to foresight | p. 3 |
Dutch foresight | p. 8 |
Research questions | p. 11 |
Research approach | p. 12 |
Audience | p. 17 |
Structure of the book | p. 19 |
First Impressions of Foresight Practice | p. 23 |
Forecasting and foresight | p. 23 |
Preparing the journey | p. 25 |
Conclusions | p. 38 |
Dealing with Policy | p. 41 |
Introduction | p. 41 |
Policy-free scenarios | p. 41 |
Policy-free and policy-oriented foresight | p. 43 |
The no (significant) policy change principle | p. 47 |
Struggling with policy | p. 50 |
Policy at the framing level | p. 57 |
Conclusions | p. 58 |
Practising the Scenario Matrix | p. 61 |
Attending to the scenario matrix | p. 61 |
Textbook descriptions: The backbone functional meaning | p. 62 |
Getting started: Backbone and foundation | p. 65 |
Analysing multiple representations | p. 67 |
Multiplicity continues to reign: The scaffold functional meaning | p. 70 |
More functional meanings: The showcase | p. 73 |
Conclusions | p. 74 |
Dealing with Prospective Uncertainty | p. 79 |
Prospective uncertainty | p. 79 |
Uncertainty awareness | p. 80 |
Uncertainty manners | p. 82 |
The danger of 'certainification' | p. 97 |
Conclusions | p. 100 |
The Past, the Present and the Future | p. 105 |
Introduction | p. 105 |
Meantime | p. 106 |
Temporal repertoires | p. 106 |
A case in time | p. 108 |
Discontinuity in foresight | p. 119 |
Conclusions | p. 133 |
Reflection on Action | p. 137 |
Summary of findings | p. 137 |
Discussion | p. 140 |
From reflection on action to reflection in action | p. 142 |
Lessons for policy audiences | p. 144 |
References | p. 147 |
Appendix | p. 163 |
Index | p. 167 |
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