Futures Thinking Aotearoa
March 23 Forum
Thursday, 23 March from 12.15 - 1.30pm
Connolly Hall, Guildford Tce, off Hill St, Wellington
Work in Progress: Four Futures for New Zealand
Presented by Bob Frame
What issues may New Zealand face over the next 50 years? What capacity will we have to respond to external pressures
such as increased trade barriers, climate change, Peak Oil, 'flu pandemics and the like? Researchers at Manaaki Whenua
Landcare Research in Lincoln and an advisory team from Wellington, have developed four possible scenarios that will help
people provide plausible (rather than predicted or preferred) answers to these questions. Bob Frame was one of the
researchers developing the scenarios.
Bob is a transdisciplinary scientist based with Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research, New Zealand's 'foremost environmental
research organisation'. He is now the Science Leader of the Sustainability and Society Group and his interests are in
the discourse surrounding sustainability issues, especially at the strategic and policy level. He is currently working
on Future Scenarios for New Zealand, sustainability assessment methods and a comparison of sustainability policy in
Scotland and New Zealand.
A copy of the scenarios presented as a screenplay can be downloaded as a pdf file (3MB) from the Landcare Research site.
Cost: New Zealand Futures Trust members: $ 5
Non-NZFT members: $15
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