Alternative Futures

Author : Carl Steinitz,Hector Arias,Scott Bassett,Michael Flaxman,Thomas Goode,Thomas Maddock,David Mouat,Richard Peiser,Allan Shearer
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1559632240

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Alternative Futures for Changing Landscapes by Carl Steinitz,Hector Arias,Scott Bassett,Michael Flaxman,Thomas Goode,Thomas Maddock,David Mouat,Richard Peiser,Allan Shearer Pdf

Leading landscape architect and planner Carl Steinitz has developed an innovative GIS-based simulation modeling strategy that considers the demographic, economic, physical, and environmental processes of an area and projects the consequences to that area of various land-use planning and management decisions. The results of such projections, and the approach itself, are known as "alternative futures." Alternative Futures for Changing Landscapes presents for the first time in book form a detailed case study of one alternative futures project—an analysis of development and conservation options for the Upper San Pedro River Basin in Arizona and Sonora, Mexico. The area is internationally recognized for its high levels of biodiversity, and like many regions, it is facing increased pressures from nearby population centers, agriculture, and mining interests. Local officials and others planning for the future of the region are seeking to balance the needs of the natural environment with those of local human communities. The book describes how the research team, working with local stakeholders, developed a set of scenarios which encompassed public opinion on the major issues facing the area. They then simulated an array of possible patterns of land uses and assessed the resultant impacts on biodiversity and related environmental factors including vegetation, hydrology, and visual preference. The book gives a comprehensive overview of how the study was conducted, along with descriptions and analysis of the alternative futures that resulted. It includes more than 30 charts and graphs and more than 150 color figures. Scenario-based studies of alternative futures offer communities a powerful tool for making better-informed decisions today, which can help lead to an improved future. Alternative Futures for Changing Landscapes presents an important look at this promising approach and how it works for planners, landscape architects, local officials, and anyone involved with making land use decisions on local and regional scales.

Author : Hazel Henderson
Publisher : UADY
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1565490606

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Creating Alternative Futures by Hazel Henderson Pdf

Henderson explains how GNP distorts the goal of human development, pointing out misleading assumptions and redefines health, wealth, and progress for humanity's long-term survival.

Author : Kirk Jalbert,Anna Willow,David Casagrande,Stephanie Paladino
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351847308

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ExtrACTION by Kirk Jalbert,Anna Willow,David Casagrande,Stephanie Paladino Pdf

This timely volume examines resistance to natural resource extraction from a critical ethnographic perspective. Using a range of case studies from North, Central and South America, Australia, and Central Asia, the contributors explore how and why resistance movements seek to change extraction policies, evaluating their similarities, differences, successes and failures. A range of ongoing debates concerning environmental justice, risk and disaster, sacrifice zones, and the economic cycles of boom and bust are considered, and the roles of governments, free markets and civil society groups re-examined. Incorporating contributions from authors in the fields of anthropology, public policy, environmental health, and community-based advocacy, ExtrACTION offers a robustly argued case for change. It will make engaging reading for academics and students in the fields of critical anthropology, public policy, and politics, as well as activists and other interested citizens.

Author : K J Joy,Ashish Kothari
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9387280098

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Alternative Futures by K J Joy,Ashish Kothari Pdf

A remarkable, first-ever collection of 35 essays on India's future, by a diverse set of authors - activists, researchers, media practitioners, those who have influenced policies and those working at the grassroots. This book brings together scenarios of an India that is politically and socially egalitarian, radically democratic, economically sustainable and equitable, and socio-culturally diverse and harmonious. Alternative Futures: India Unshackled covers a wide range of issues, organized under four sections. It explores ecological futures including environmental governance, biodiversity conservation, water and energy. Next, it envisions political futures including those of democracy and power, law, ideology, and India's role in the globe. A number of essays then look at economic futures, including agriculture, pastoralism, industry, crafts, villages and cities, localization, markets, transportation and technology. Finally, it explores socio-cultural futures, encompassing languages, learning and education, knowledge, health, sexuality and gender, and marginalized sections like dalits, adivasis, and religious minorities. Introductory and concluding essays tie these diverse visions together. Most essays include both futuristic scenarios and present initiatives that demonstrate the possibility of such futures. At a time when India faces increasing polarization along parochial, physical and mental boundaries, these essays provide a breath of fresh air and hope in the grounded possibilities for an alternative, decentralized, eco-culturally centred future. The essays range from the dreamy-eyed to the hard-headed, from the provocative to the gently persuasive. This book would hold appeal for a wide range of readers - youth, academics, development professionals, policy makers, government officials, activists, people's movements, media persons, business persons - concerned about the current state of India and the world, and willing to engage critically in the collective search for a better future.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Education
ISBN : UCR:31210018002301

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Alternative Futures in American Education by Anonim Pdf

Author : Timothy M. Shaw
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429716126

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Alternative Futures For Africa by Timothy M. Shaw Pdf

This comprehensive, critical examination of Africa’s future–written by a diverse group of Africans and Africanists–raises many questions and challenges concerning the development and unity of the African continent. Eclectic in range and method, but cohesive in concern, the book identifies and analyzes alternative probabilities in the political, economic, and social spheres and on the national, regional, and international levels. Many of the contributors point toward an unpromising future for Africa unless its development strategy is changed and its inheritance of dependence on the world system overcome.

Author : United States. Environmental Protection Agency
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105216466032

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Alternative Futures and Environmental Quality by United States. Environmental Protection Agency Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Food supply
ISBN : IND:30000090135363

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Alternative Futures for World Food in 1985 by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Basic Research
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1246 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCR:31210013773831

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Alternative Futures for the Department of Energy National Laboratories "the Galvin Report" and National Laboratories Need Clearer Missions and Better Management, a GAO Report to the Secretary of Energy by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Basic Research Pdf

Author : United States. Department of Agriculture. Economics, Statistics, and Cooperatives Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Food supply
ISBN : NWU:35556011535242

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Alternative Futures for World Food in 1985: World GOL model, structure and equations by United States. Department of Agriculture. Economics, Statistics, and Cooperatives Service Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Environmental policy
ISBN : MINN:31951D00849285W

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Working Papers in Alternative Futures and Environmental Quality by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Energy Research and Development
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105062993006

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Alternative Futures for the Department of Energy National Laboratories by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Energy Research and Development Pdf

Author : Timothy M. Shaw
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429696114

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Alternative Futures For Africa by Timothy M. Shaw Pdf

This comprehensive, critical examination of Africa’s future–written by a diverse group of Africans and Africanists–raises many questions and challenges concerning the development and unity of the African continent. Eclectic in range and method, but cohesive in concern, the book identifies and analyzes alternative probabilities in the political, economic, and social spheres and on the national, regional, and international levels. Many of the contributors point toward an unpromising future for Africa unless its development strategy is changed and its inheritance of dependence on the world system overcome.

Author : Erualdo González Romero,Michelle E. Zuñiga,Ashley C. Hernandez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : 0367357879

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Gentrification, Displacement, and Alternative Futures by Erualdo González Romero,Michelle E. Zuñiga,Ashley C. Hernandez Pdf

Scholars and community activists adjoin in Gentrification, Displacement, and Alternative Futures to engage directly and critically with the issue of gentrification and to address its impacts on marginalized, materially exploited, and displaced communities.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OCDE
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : 9264247750

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Alternative Futures for Global Food and Agriculture by OECD Pdf

We face the challenges of developing a global food system that will feed a growing and more affluent population while preserving sensitive ecosystems, competing for limited natural resources, increasing agricultural productivity growth while mitigating and adapting to climate change and other threats, and contributing to rural area well-being. This report develops three contrasting scenarios to illustrate alternative futures, based on several global economic models and extensive discussions with relevant stakeholders, and outlines policy considerations to help ensure that future needs are met in an economically, environmentally and socially sustainable manner. The scenarios highlight the fundamental uncertainties surrounding forward-oriented decision making, and point to the crucial importance of international co-operation across multiple policy areas.