GLOBAL FUTURES EDUCATION

By Jennifer M. Gidley, PhD (2021). The challenges we face for near and long-term futures have been called a “crisis of crises,” “wicked problems,” and “grand global futures challenges.” This piece focuses on three grand global futures challenges: growing urbanisation, lack of (or inadequate) international education, and the accelerating climate crisis. These grand global futures challenges will have substantial impacts in the socio-cultural and environmental domains.

By Jennifer M. Gidley, PhD, et al (2009). This paper broadens climate change futures approaches beyond the dominant predictive trends and expert scenarios. However, any participatory futures method chosen to facilitate climate change adaptation must be context-aware in design and implementation to facilitate adaptability and resilience in climate-vulnerable communities.

By Jennifer M. Gidley, PhD (2016). This article explores the breadth of the futures studies field in dialogue with prominent scientific approaches to climate change mitigation, adaptation, and coevolution. First, I take an evolutionary perspective on the development of the futures studies field. Secondly, I apply my typology of five paradigmatic futures approaches to dialogue with climate science.

By Jennifer M. Gidley, PhD (2021). This paper explores the current scientific research on climate change, including mitigation, adaptation, and regenerative co-evolution. It looks at where we need to go to turn things around. In this paper, I hope to have made it clear that mitigation and adaptation alone are nowhere near enough to prevent the catastrophic projected impacts. We must also build adaptive capacity.