Drawing on the author's experience as a geographer, town planner, and now futurist, an eclectic mix of approaches to and theories of the future, many of which are more implicit than explicit, is developed. Among the most important are aspects of systems, chaos, and complexity theories. Two important concepts—paradox and a learning approach—provide important themes to the future. These ideas are summed up in the philosophy of the master's degree in foresight and futures studies at Leeds Metropolitan University.
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