Table of contents - Special Issue: Mastering social foresight
Guest Editors: Dr Roberto Poli
Mastering social foresight – introduction to the special issue
Roberto Poli– The purpose of this paper is a presentation of the guiding ideas underlining the master degree course in social foresight recently launched by the University of Trento (Italy).
Social foresight
Roberto PoliThe purpose of this paper is to present the three guiding ideas of the social foresight course, namely, the difference between abstract and concrete futures (i.e. the difference…
Complexity and social sciences
Jack Birner– The purpose of this paper is to give an outline of the main topics of an introductory course in complexity and social sciences.
System dynamics education: becoming part of anticipatory systems
Rocco Scolozzi, Roberto Poli– This paper aims to present an overview of deep issues flanking the ideas of system and complexity, and an overview of the mentioned course as a proposal for systems thinking.
On the evaluation of public goods: cognitive and emotional aspects
Nicolao Bonini, Ilana Ritov, Michele GraffeoThe purpose of this paper is to provide a theoretical framework for the assessment of subjective value of public goods. Public goods are not traded, so they do not have market…
Secondary analysis in the social sciences and its relation to futures studies
Cristiano Vezzoni– The purpose of this paper is to show the importance of secondary analysis to social sciences and to futures studies, both for research and teaching purposes.
Teaching statistics in the context of social foresight. An applied approach based on the use of an open-source software
Diego Giuliani, Maria Michela Dickson, Giuseppe EspaThe purpose of this paper is to present the contents and the didactic approach that characterize, respectively, the “Introductory Statistics with R” and “Statistics and Foresight”…
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1074-8121e-ISSN:
2054-1708ISSN-L:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
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- John Moravec