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Megatrend of aging population has significant, structure changing effects in the society. Due to changing age structure, new policies and practices are needed. Importance of the megatrend has been recognized also in one ...

Sustainable and efficient land management system is a crucial factor for the well-being of every society. Cadastral system as a constituent of land management system plays an important role in ensuring legality of relationships ...

In futures studies creativity is an essential element needed in imagining and examining the different possible futures to be. Futures imaging, creating options and possibilities of futures, can play a significant role as ...

The aims of institutions, both public and corporate alike, are similar in the post-modern days: the need to cope in an accelerated pace of change and turbulence is creating a need for a more organized and systematic way ...

3D printing as a disruptive additive manufacturing technique requires sufficient navigation around the uncertainty on its possible, probable and preferable socio-technological impacts on society. As a result, it is imperative ...

Change is always present in the current business world and it has very differing impacts. It can be characterised as a force that causes pressure for companies to transform their services and products to correspond to the ...

Hope is an inherently futures-oriented concept: it can only be targeted towards the future because the present moment and the past are beyond our influence. Its timescale, complexity, and certainty may vary, but hoping is ...

The starting point of this thesis assumes that the present world is in a state of flux that creates a turbulent, complex and uncertain environment for companies to operate in. This appears to be true for manufacturing ...

This Master’s thesis introduces a novel, participatory and qualitative backcasting approach that produces various alternative scenarios. The developed approach participatory backcasting from value principles is applied to ...