Realistic Hope : Facing Global Challenges /

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We are running out of water, robots will take our jobs, we are eating ourselves to an early death, old age pension and health systems are bankrupting governments, and an immigration crisis is unravelling the European integration project. A growing number of nightmares, perfect storms, and global cat...

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Otros Autores: Flowers, Betty S. (Editor ), Wilkinson, Angela (Strategic foresight counsellor) (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Social prediction.
Forecasting.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Operations Research.
SCIENCE > System Theory.
Prevision sociale.
Prevision.
Forecasting
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Contents; Foreword: Realising Hope; Ged R. Davis; Introduction: Building Better Futures; Angela Wilkinson and Betty Sue Flowers; 1. Making Globalisation Work; Carl J. Dahlman; 2. Energy: A Better Life with a Healthy Planet; Jeremy Bentham; 3. Are Major Wars More Likely in the Future?; Joëlle Jenny and Alyssa Stalsberg Canelli; 4. The Future of Work; Peter Schwartz; 5. Digital Technologies: Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining; Claire Naughtin and Stefan Hajkowicz; 6. Cities to the Rescue: A New Scale for Dealing with Climate Change; Keith Clarke, Viviana Jimenez, and Tim O'Riordan
  • 7. The Future of Global PovertyClaudia Juech and Chukwudi Onike; 8. Transcending Boundaries: The Realistic Hope for Water; Alejandro Litovsky; 9. Health Systems: Doomed to Fail or About to Be Saved by a Copernican Shift?; Kristel Van der Elst and Rudi Pauwels; 10. Seeding the Future: Challenges to Global Food Systems; Ariella Helfgott and Joost Vervoort; 11. The Great Livestock Trade-off: Food Production, Poverty Alleviation, and Climate Change; Luke York and Claire Heffernan; 12. Rethinking Economics for Global Challenges; Christian Kastrop
  • 13. Leadership and the Future of Democratic SocietiesMartin Mayer and Verena Ringler; 14. Prototyping the Future: A New Approach to Whole-of-Society Visioning; Alenka Smerkolj and Timotej Šooš; Five Principles of Realistic Hope; Angela Wilkinson and Betty Sue Flowers; Epilogue: From the Eclipse of Utopia to the Restoration of Hope; Jay Ogilvy; Acknowledgements; Name Index; Subject Index

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