Foresight Methods: A Guide to Easily Accessible Toolkits

Abstract

This Evidence Report provides an introduction to a number of easily accessible toolkits relating to the use of Foresight and Futures approaches and methods in development-oriented research and planning. Section 2 of this report provides a selection of introductory readings on Foresight. Following this, Section 3 briefly introduces 21 easily accessible Foresight and Futures toolkits. Together, these toolkits cover a wide variety of approaches and methods, although scenarios are central to many of them.