"Examines the use of scenario planning in the fields of security and emergency preparedness, energy, and health by analyzing practices at the National Emergency Authority in Israel, the World Health Organization's Regional Office for Europe, and the World Energy Council"--
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction: Uncertainty, Scenarios, and the Future
1. Chronicity: The Problematization of Scenario Thinking
2. Narrative-Building: Imagining Plausible Futures
3. Exercising: Practicing the Unexpected
4. Subjectivation: Embracing Uncertainty
5. Simulations: Possibilities and Responses
6. Scenarios, Temporality, and Uncertainty
Conclusions and Critical Limitations
Epilogue: Scenarios and the Dynamics between Science and Imagination