A Systematic Review of the Backcasting Method in Futures Studies

A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF THE BACKCASTING METHOD IN FUTURES STUDIES. The emergence of future consciousness facilitates the anticipations about studying the future. It is driven by survival needs and evolutionary forces and described as the general awareness of time and temporal consciousness of humans' past, present, and future. This could be assumed as the foundational thought behind the art of studying the future. Backcasting method is a futures studies method suitably applicable when conducting research on environmental and sustainability-related issues, most especially when long-term policies are required to be formulated over a given period of related long-term, of about 20-100 years into the future. Welcome to the FUTURE.

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Oluwarotimi is a Futures, Peace and Conflict researcher. When he is not studying, he is probably designing websites, analyzing data, mining cryptocurrencies or troubleshooting computer problems. He aspires his son would become a world football star. You can access his personal website by typing his name; 'oluwarotimiakintan.com' into Google.