The readings required for the course are collected from articles and books. This year's literature is not finally decided. To give a hint on what kind of literature the course covers, you find the list of readings from last year below.
List of readings 2008
Andersson, J (2006). “Choosing futures: Alva Myrdal and construction of Swedish Futures Studies, 1967-1972”, International Review of Social History, vol 51, p. 277-295.
Bell, W (2003). “The purpose of Futures Studies”, chapter 2 in Bell, W. (2003), Foundations of Futures studies – History, Purposes and Knowledge. Transaction, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Börjeson, L, Höjer, M, Dreborg, K-H, Ekvall, T & Finnveden, G (2005). Towards a user's guide to scenarios - a report on scenario types and scenario techniques, Trita-Infra-fms 2005:3, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.
Carlsson-Kanyama, A, Dreborg, K H, Engström, R & Henriksson, G (2003). Possibilities for long-term changes of life: Experiences of backcasting with stakeholders. Fms-report 178, Stockholm.
Carlsson-Kanyama, A, Engström, R and Kok, R, 2005. “Indirect and direct energy requirements of city households in Sweden: Options for reduction, lessons from modelling”, Journal of Industrial Ecology 9 (1-2):221-236.
Dreborg, K H, (2004). Scenarios and Structural Uncertainty – Explorations in the Field of Sustainable Transport, Doctoral thesis, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.
Eckstein, B (2003).“Making Space: Stories in the Practice of Planning”, chapter 2 in Eckstein, B and Throgmorton, J A (eds) Story and Sustainability: Planning, Practice and Possibility for American Cities. MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts, London.
Haug, F (2000):“On the Necessity of Conceiving the Utopian in a Feminist Fashion”, Socialist Register, vol. 36, p. 53-66.
Hedrén, J. (2008): Shaping sustainability: Is there an unreleased potential in utopian thought?, Futures, (2008), doi:10.1016/j.futures.2008.09.005
van der Heijden, K (1996). “Scenario Development”, chapter 10 in van der Heijden, K (1996) Scenarios: The Art of Strategic Conversation. John Wiley and Sons, London.
Höjer, M, (2002). “Telecommunicators in the multinuclear city”. In Snickars, F, Olerup, B & Persson, L-O (Eds.) Reshaping Regional Planning. Ashgate, Aldershot, p. 347-362.
Höjer, M & Mattsson, L-G, (2000). “Determinism and back-casting in futures studies”, Futures, vol 32, p. 613-634.
Makridakis, S, Wheelwright, S and Hyndman, R, 1997, Forecasting: Methods and applications. John Wiley and Sons, London.
Malmberg, B and Lindh, T, 2004. Forecasting global growth by age structure projections, Working paper 2004:5, Institute for Futures Studies, Stockholm.
Milojevic I., Hurley K., Jenkins, A. (2008) “Futures of feminism”, Futures, vol 40, (4) p. 313-318.
May, A, 2003, A Decision Maker’s Guidebook. Prospects Deliverable no 15. Community Research, Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development, European Commission.
Wallgren, C, 2008, Food in the Future – Energy and transport in the food system, Trita SoM 2008-08, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
Whistler 2020: Moving towards a sustainable future (2007): Comprehensive sustainability plan. 2nd ed. Municipality of Wisthler.
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