Envisioning African Futures: Development corridors as dreamscapes of modernity

Visualisation Techniques for Envisioning Landscape Futures

Visualisation technologies offer a means for enhancing the scientific communication of existing conditions and likely landscape scenarios to various stakeholder groups including communities, natural resource managers, and policy-makers. This paper provides some background description of visualisation including definitions and discussion of visualisation as a connecting science. Next, the paper ...

African Ecological Futures: Synthesis Paper

Desert dreamscapes : Residential landscape preference

10 The residential landscape constitutes a significant portion of the urban environment. With the increasing mobility of our society, many people come to reside in environments with unfamiliar plant communities and environmental conditions. In this research, 232 Phoenix, Arizona homeowners were surveyed to investigate their residential landscape preferences and to what degree these preferences ...

Decision Corridors as a Futuring Technique

This paper describes using a decision corridor approach to improve the exercise of strategic judgment under conditions of uncertainty. The method is a composite of concepts and tools principally borrowed from three analytical families futures, transition management and strategic management While the approach as used does not challenge current business concepts or radically contribute to their r...

Development of new African horsesickness cell culture killed vaccines