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Handbook of Anticipation

Theoretical and Applied Aspects of the Use of Future in Decision Making

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Editors:
  1. Roberto Poli

    1. Dept of Sociology & Social Research, University of Trento Dept of Sociology & Social Research, Trento, Italy

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  • Comprehensive overview of use of Anticipation in Decision making processes

  • Presents research from a variety of fields such as: Biology, ecology, psychology, social sciences, humanities, engineering, computer science

  • Contains an historical overview of leading thinkers as: Edmund Husserl, Nicolai Hartmann, Ernst Bloch, Gaston Berger, Bertrand de Jouvenel, John W. Bennet, Piotr Anhokin, Robert Rosen

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Table of contents (77 entries)

  1. Complex Systems

    • A. H. Louie, Roberto Poli

  2. Counterfactualism and Anticipation

    • Neville Morley

  3. Creativity and Anticipation

    • Giovanni Emanuele Corazza

  4. Design Processes and Anticipation

    • Flaviano Celaschi, Elena Formia, Roberto Iñiguez Flores, Ruth León Morán

  5. Design Scenarios and Anticipation

    • Chiara Colombi, Danila Zindato

  6. Diagnosis of the Times

    • Lars Geer Hammershøj

  7. Education and the Future

    • Deborah Osberg

  8. Four Kinds of Anticipatory (M-R) Life and a Definition of Sustainability

    • John J. Kineman

  9. Future Anticipatory Practices

    • Hardin B. C Tibbs

  10. Future Scenario Generation, Minimum Regret Decisions and Linear Programming

    • Stefano Benati

  11. Futures Literacy: The Capacity to Diversify Conscious Human Anticipation

    • Riel Miller, Richard Sandford

  12. Futuring, Experimentation, and Transformative Urban Politics

    • Mark Swilling, Edgar Pieterse, Maarten Hajer

  13. Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Anticipation

    • Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti, Carl Mika, Cash Ahenakew, Hemi Hireme

  14. Introducing Anticipation

    • Roberto Poli

  15. K-Waves, Reflexive Foresight, and the Future of Anticipation in the Next Socioeconomic Cycle

    • Markku Wilenius, Sofi Kurki

  16. Latent Fictions: The Anticipation of World Fairs

    • Carlos Lopez-Galviz, Astrid Nordin, Nick Dunn

  17. Long Cycles and Anticipation

    • Adrian Pop

  18. Mathematical Foundations of Anticipatory Systems

    • A. H. Louie

  19. Microgenesis of Anticipation: Windowing the Present

    • Liliana Albertazzi

  20. Monitoring Sustainable Development Goals: From Now to 2030

    • Fabiola Riccardini
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About this book

This Handbook presents the state of the art overview of current research on anticipation studies. It develops anticipation from both the theoretical and applied points of view.  Via this comprehensive overview of the research on anticipation, this Handbook makes clear that anticipation is a serious topic of research that can and should be connected to Futures Studies research, perspectives and orientation. The Handbook uses the anticipatory viewpoint as a unifying framework able both to stop the progressive fragmentation of the human and social sciences and begin a process aimed at progressively closer integration, mutual knowledge and dialogue among the human and social sciences. It sets the agenda for the field, helps futures studies to come of age, and contributes to changing the orientation of the human and social sciences from their dominant past-orientation to a new future-orientation. 

The Handbook presents research from a variety of fields such as: Biology, ecology, psychology, social sciences, humanities, engineering, and computer science. The editorial board consists of scholars from various sciences, such as futurists, sociologists, economists, statisticians, computer scientists, designers and game builders.


Editors and Affiliations

  • Dept of Sociology & Social Research, University of Trento Dept of Sociology & Social Research, Trento, Italy

    Roberto Poli

About the editor

Roberto Poli (PhD Utrecht) is Professor of philosophy at the University of Trento (Italy). Poli has been awarded the UNESCO Chair in Anticipatory Systems, is fellow of WAAS—World Academy of Art and Science, STIAS—Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study, and IAS – Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Bristol. Poli is editor-in-chief of Axiomathes (Springer) and he is the director of the master in Social Foresight. Poli has published five books, edited or co-edited more than 20 books or journal’s special issues and published about 250 scientific papers. His present work is focused on the theory of anticipatory systems, i.e. system able to take decisions according to their possible future development.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Handbook of Anticipation

  • Book Subtitle: Theoretical and Applied Aspects of the Use of Future in Decision Making

  • Editors: Roberto Poli

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31737-3

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Springer Reference Religion and Philosophy, Reference Module Humanities and Social Sciences, Reference Module Humanities

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-31737-3Due: 27 February 2018

  • Topics: Philosophy, general, Operations Research/Decision Theory, Personality and Social Psychology

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