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- verb Present participle of
backcast .
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Examples
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So looking five years out and then "backcasting" to the present (as a sanity check) we must consider not just technology, but also consumer behaviour, content, creativity, commercialisation and the reality of just how fast change can and will happen.
Pocket-lint Ken Blakeslee 2010
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First: Engage in a process called "backcasting," part of a larger planning strategy called The Natural Step.
Toronto Sun 2009
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The program, based on input from stakeholders, should feature targets and timelines developed through a "backcasting" process, beginning with a collaborative exercise aimed at envisioning the local food system as it might look in 2025 after fossil fuels have ceased to play a role.
Bill Totten's Weblog 2008
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The plan uses backcasting methods to set specific midterm environmental targets for the next five years in line with that goal.
Daily Dispatch: GE LED household bulbs; Sony aims for no environmental footprint 2010
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The plan, which includes a long-term goal of achieving a zero environmental footprint by 2050, uses backcasting methods to set specific mid-term environmental targets for the next five years in line with that goal.
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The plan uses backcasting methods to set specific midterm environmental targets for the next five years in line with that goal.
Daily Dispatch: GE LED household bulbs; Sony aims for no environmental footprint 2010
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I know very smart people who try and write stock picking programs the stock market is also believed chaotic and they fiddle with all their parameters all the time and their predictions immediately diverge from reality once they start forecasting, even though ‘backcasting’ works real well.
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And where I am maybe more cynical than you is regarding backcasting or hindcast ex post forecasting.
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"Unfavourable user comments arising as a result of this backcasting method has resulted in Stats SA reviewing its position," the agency said in a statement on Thursday.
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Menu of options: explore alternatives in development of an Energy Descent Action Plan (using, for example, visioning and backcasting as scenario planning tools) mpathy as a counseling style: supportive, friendly, encouraging, empathetic, engaging
Energy Bulletin - bart 2010
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