Folkestone futures: an elevated excursion

Integral Futures: An approach to futures inquiry

This paper sketches the broad outlines of the philosophical and methodological foundations of an emerging approach to inquiry — ‘integral inquiry’ — and how this form of inquiry may be applied to futures studies, leading to an approach which has come to called ‘Integral Futures’. A version of this paper appeared in: Futures, vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 190-201, 2008. Special Issue Title: ‘Integral Futu...

An excursion into geometric analysis

Osler and the Canadians in Folkestone.

28 June 1914 was a glorious summer day in Folkestone. The Leas, perhaps the most beautiful promenade in England, overlooked the twinkling blue English Channel, and out of a cloudless sky the sun blazed down on the well-to-do as they strolled between the Hotel Metropole and the Grand Hotel. The Boer War was but a memory. King George V sat on the throne, albeit the architecture of the town was mo...

MINDING FUTURES An Exploration of Responsibility for Long Term Futures

In this paper I am concerned with contemporary industrial societies’ ability to extend themselves into the far future by economic, scientific and political means on the one hand and their inability to know the potential, diverse and multiple outcomes of this produced futurity on the other. I focus on this discrepancy between the future extension of action and knowledge in order to consider how ...

an application of equilibrium model for crude oil tanker ships insurance futures in iran

با توجه به تحریم های بین المملی علیه صنعت بیمه ایران امکان استفاده از بازارهای بین المملی بیمه ای برای نفتکش های ایرانی وجود ندارد. از طرفی از آنجایی که یکی از نوآوری های اخیر استفاده از بازارهای مالی به منظور ریسک های فاجعه آمیز می باشد. از اینرو در این پایان نامه سعی شده است با استفاده از این نوآوری ها با طراحی اوراق اختیارات راهی نو جهت بیمه گردن نفت کش های ایرانی ارائه نمود. از آنجایی که بر...