Improving the link between the futures field and policymaking

van Dorsser, Cornelis; Walker, W.E.; Taneja, P.; Marchau, Vincent A.W.J.

doi:10.1016/j.futures.2018.05.004

Improving the link between the futures field and policymaking

Title

Improving the link between the futures field and policymaking

Author

van Dorsser, Cornelis (TU Delft Rivers, Ports, Waterways and Dredging Engineering)
Walker, W.E. (TU Delft Air Transport & Operations)
Taneja, P. (TU Delft Rivers, Ports, Waterways and Dredging Engineering)
Marchau, Vincent A.W.J. (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen)

Date

2018-01

Abstract

Policymakers need to make policies for unknown and uncertain futures. Researchers in the futures field have a great deal to contribute to the policymaking process. But, futures research is often neglected as an element of policymaking. The aim of this paper is to improve the link between futures research and policymaking. More specifically, as Policy Analysis has a strong link with policymaking, this paper explores the possibility of linking Policy Analysis to the futures field through the use of an uncertainty typology applied in Policy Analysis. The typology can be used to structure the various forward-looking disciplines (or subfields) of the futures field according to the level of uncertainty that they address. This linkage can add significantly to the use of futures research in policymaking.

Subject

Forecasting
Foresight
Futures studies
Policy analysis
Uncertainty

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2018.05.004

Embargo date

2020-11-07

ISSN

0016-3287

Source

Futures: the journal of policy, planning and futures studies, 104, 75-84