FEMA - Strategic Foresight Initiative - Toward More Resilient Futures: Putting Foresight Into Practice

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SFI recently released Toward More Resilient Futures: Putting Foresight Into Practice, a document highlighting the value and utility of thinking strategically about the future. The aim of this highly visual document is to help bridge the gap between the theory and practice of strategic foresight. We want our readers to explore the future by immersing themselves in the big issues driving change and to discover real world examples of how individuals and organizations are taking forward-leaning action to enhance disaster resilience.

While SFI’s earlier work centered on a deep analysis of future needs, Toward More Resilient Futures is more practical in focus. The document spotlights competing viewpoints for how recent trends in the economy, environment, technology and security may affect government and disaster management in the near future. It also highlights projects, individuals, and organizations that are pushing the bounds of current thinking and action around emergency management.

In the upcoming webinar, “Putting Foresight Into Practice”, we will continue the conversation about what it means to apply strategic foresight. Through a panel discussion between several Whole Community innovators whose projects are highlighted in Toward More Resilient Futures, this webinar, to be held on June 13, 2013 from 1:30-3:30pm EDT, will explore the future of disaster resilience, and show how a long-term perspective can help us develop the capabilities, tools, and partnerships to solve problems—today, and in the future.

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