In trying to understand Exploratory Search, the community has focused on users who are working towards an information need, but who are unclear of their goal, technology, or domain of information. Ou

This research report aims to show how futures studies or foresight techniques, especially causal layered analysis (CLA), can enrich the attempts of organisations to innovate.

Inayatullah's "Casual Layered Analysis" is the first major new futures theory and method since Delphi, almost forty years ago. CLA is a very sophisticated way to categorize different views of and con

The workshop focused on developing plausible alternate narratives of the future of West Africa in terms of socio-economic and political change and the effects of these futures on food security, envir

Central Africa Regional Integration Strategy Paper 2011-2015

This study aims to answer the following research question: What are the potentials, challenges and future perspectives of tourism developments in the Central Rift Valley of Ethiopia? As part of the f

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Abstract from the paper: "Four quantitative scenarios are presented that describe changes in worldwide ecosystem services up to 2050–2100. A set of soft-linked global models of human demography, econ

The global obesity epidemic has been escalating for four decades, yet sustained prevention efforts have barely begun. An emerging science that uses quantitative models has provided key insights into t

The objectives of this research report on a scenario planning exercise for the SA healthcare sector were to prepare the material that would feed into such an exercise, to document some ideas about ho