Foresight: Volume 3 Issue 5

Of cows and men: Europe’s food safety crisis

Galina Gaivoronskaia, Knut erik Solem

“Mad cow” and foot‐and‐mouth epidemics have brought food safety to the fore in Europe. Understanding the reasons for the crisis can be helped by comparing European systems of…

Knowledge creation, futures methodologies and the integral agenda

Richard A. Slaughter

For futures studies to progress toward a fully‐fledged discipline its knowledge creation processes must be clear and comprehensible. They must be capable of being taught, learned…

Sustainable transport for Asia‐pacific megacities

Greg Tegart, Ainsley Jolley

Increasing urbanization in the Asia and Pacific region is leading to a rapid increase in the number of megacities. A major concern is the issue of sustainable transport. This…

The future of e‐money: main trends and driving forces

Michel Andrieu

This article examines the future of e‐money as a payment instrument and some of the microeconomic policy issues it will raise. The paper is in two parts. This first part focuses…

Imagineering global real estate: a property foresight exercise

John Ratcliffe

This paper reports the progress of, and results from, a major foresight and scenario planning exercise concerned with the future of real estate. The project first explored the…

Shaping Thailand’s IT future through technology foresight

Ketmanee Ausadamongkol, Denis Loveridge

Technology foresight is becoming an important instrument in the policy‐making process in many countries. But unless foresight studies engage the full spectrum of users and…