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Author : Hazel Henderson
Publisher : Cliffs Notes
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Economic development
ISBN : PSU:000018544770
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 : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1559632240
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 : W. van Eimeren,R. Engelbrecht,C. D. Flagle
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1444 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783642699399
In the early stages of planning the Third International Conference in System Science in Health Care, the steering committee members, most of whom had participated in the first conference in Paris (1976) and the second in Montreal (1980), made some basic decisions about organization of subject matter. The earlier meetings had been very successful in bringing together specialists from the health professions and the traditional sciences. In addition to physicians and nurses, these were representatives of the disciplines of the behavioral sciences, system theory, economics, engineering, and the emergency fields of management science and informatics -all concerned with the development of health resources in a broad system context. The reported research and experience of the many disciplines represented had dealt with one or more of three concerns: 1) a major health problem, such as cardiovascular disease, or an important popUlation at risk, such as the elderly or children or workers; 2) some generic aspect of organization and decision making, including trial and evaluation ofinnovative health strategies; and 3) the methodology of research and analysis in system of health service. The challenge to the conference organizers lay in the eliciting and arranging of experiences in such a way that the health services could be seen as purposeful,living, evolving systems.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789087905132
“We desperately need the dynamic revolution in education that this book offers us, reflecting the new ways of thinking and being on this planet that will permit us to live in peace as a global family even through massive climate changes. Read it and put these ideas into practice as quickly as possible in any ways you can!” —Elisabet Sahtouris, Evolutionary biologist and futurist, author of EarthDance: Living Systems in Evolution
Author : James Robertson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105030529742
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Education
ISBN : UCR:31210018002301
Author : Constance de Saint-Laurent,Sandra Obradović,Kevin R. Carriere
Publisher : Springer
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783319760513
It is a commonly held assumption among cultural, social, and political psychologists that imagining the future of societies we live in has the potential to change how we think and act in the world. However little research has been devoted to whether this effect exists in collective imaginations, of social groups, communities and nations, for instance. This book explores the part that imagination and creativity play in the construction of collective futures, and the diversity of outlets in which these are presented, from fiction and cultural symbols to science and technology. The authors discuss this effect in social phenomena such as in intergroup conflict and social change, and focus on several cases studies to illustrate how the imagination of collective futures can guide social and political action. This book brings together theoretical and empirical contributions from cultural, social, and political psychology to offer insight into our constant (re)imagination of the societies in which we live.
Author : Brita Schwarz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429716805
This book presents three examples of futures research that illustrate the problems of applying knowledge during the course of a futures research project, the ways in which different methodologies interact, and various means of combining and adapting methodological tools and techniques.
Author : William Harrison Boyer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Forecasting
ISBN : UCSC:32106001019568
Author : Cristovam Buarque
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Brazil
ISBN : UCSD:31822015344641
Breakthrough to a new and more enduring paradigm in their discipline.
Author : S. A. Hamed Hosseini,James Goodman,Sara C. Motta,Barry K. Gills
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429893384
The Routledge Handbook of Transformative Global Studies provides diverse and cutting-edge perspectives on this fast-changing field. For 30 years the world has been caught in a long ‘global interregnum,’ plunging from one crisis to the next and witnessing the emergence of new, vibrant, multiple, and sometimes contradictory forms of popular resistance and politics. This global ‘interregnum’ – or a period of uncertainty where the old hegemony is fading and the new ones have not yet been fully realized – necessitates critical self-reflection, brave intellectual speculation and (un)learning of perceived wisdoms, and greater transdisciplinary collaboration across theories, localities, and subjects. This Handbook takes up this challenge by developing fresh perspectives on globalization, development, neoliberalism, capitalism, and their progressive alternatives, addressing issues of democracy, power, inequality, insecurity, precarity, wellbeing, education, displacement, social movements, violence and war, and climate change. Throughout, it emphasizes the dynamics for system change, including bringing post-capitalist, feminist, (de)colonial, and other critical perspectives to support transformative global praxis. This volume brings together a mixture of fresh and established scholars from across disciplines and from a range of both Northern and Southern contexts. Researchers and students from around the world and across the fields of politics, sociology, international development, international relations, geography, economics, area studies, and philosophy will find this an invaluable and fresh guide to global studies in the 21st century.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Agriculture and Forestry Committee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112085712
Author : United States. Department of Agriculture. Office of Planning and Evaluation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : UOM:39015078589366
Author : K J Joy,Ashish Kothari
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9387280098
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 : Donald R. Kelley
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781538127957
The world is becoming more complex, fraught with increasing possibilities for conflict over national rivalries, economic competition, and cultural and ideological fault lines. This clear-eyed text offers a structured and theoretically grounded way to think about the forces that animate change and the alternative futures they may create. Donald Kelley views both contemporary reality and the future we face through the perspective of four different paradigms that shape our way of thinking about the world: The nation-state paradigm, built on the assumption that the traditional Westphalian nation-state remains the key building block of the present and the future, which leads us to predict the future in terms of the nature and alignment of nation-states The economic paradigm, built on the assumption that economic factors are increasingly important, which leads us to see the future in terms of factors such as interdependence, globalization, and trade as well as the growing opposition to these developments and the prioritization of national economic needs The identity and culture paradigm, built on the distinct identities and cultures of nations and regions, which leads us to view the future in terms of conflicting culture-based communities transcending formal national or economic interests The ideology paradigm, based on a post-cold war reemergence of ideological conflict within and among nations, which leads us to view a world based on ideology-based conflict From these paradigms and their interactions, Kelley builds a series of possible alternative futures of the international system. His framework provides a unique way of looking at how and why the world is changing and the many different “futures”—some peaceful and productive, some warlike and destructive, and others simply dysfunctional—in which we might live.
