For an incoming Editor, this statement of purpose is simultaneously exciting and challenging. One can only try to apply it rigorously. It is'essential for Futures to be diverse and rigorous, particularly if we want the journal to be noticed and its contents taken seriously. As an academic journal, the role of Futures is to generate and publish new knowledge which informs policy and practices and highlight the potentials, threats and multiple possibilities that lay in the distant horizon. It should also enhance the practice of professional futurists through robust development of theory and methodology. One could summarise the role of Futures Studies and the primary journal of the field as contributing to knowledge about all aspects of society's relationships with the future.
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