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Author : Mekki Mtewa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Developing countries
ISBN : 8170232716
Author : Timothy M. Shaw
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429696114
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 : Donald R. Kelley
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 54,6 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.
Author : OECD
Publisher : OCDE
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : 9264247750
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.
Author : Hazel Henderson
Publisher : Berkley Publishing Group
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037115958
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 : W. van Eimeren,R. Engelbrecht,C. D. Flagle
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1444 pages
File Size : 41,5 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 : Louis René Beres,Harry R. Targ
Publisher : New York : Praeger
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015030507860
"Addresses ... the concept and design of alternative futures for such urgent world problems as international and national security systems, populations, diminishing natural resources, environmental deterioration, and the widening gap between rich and poor"--Cover 4.
Author : Geoff Tansey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-04
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781136553912
This book is the first wide-ranging guide to the key issues of intellectual property and ownership, genetics, biodiversity and food security. Proceeding from an introduction and overview of the issues, comprehensive chapters cover negotiations and instruments in the World Trade Organization, Convention on Biological Diversity, UN Food and Agriculture Organization, World Intellectual Property Organization, the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants and various other international bodies. The final part discusses the responses of civil society groups to the changing global rules, how these changes affect the direction of research and development, the nature of global negotiation processes and various alternative futures. Published with IDRC and QIAP.
Author : Timothy M. Shaw
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429716126
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 : Mark Rupert,M. Scott Solomon
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0742529436
The politics of globalization include nation-states pursuing power, multinational firms seeking profits for their shareholders, coalitions and networks attempting to promote particular visions of future possible worlds, resistance groups ranging from the non-violent to the murderous, and ordinary people struggling to feed their families and secure their futures in a rapidly changing world. Globalization and International Political Economy examines processes of globalizing capitalism and the complex politics which are emerging from it--processes and struggles which will determine the shape of our world in the 21st century.
Author : Anke Schwittay
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781529213652
In this wide-ranging book, Anke Schwittay argues that, in order to inspire and equip students to generate better responses to global challenges, we need a new high education pedagogy that develops their imagination, creativity, emotional sensibilities and practical capabilities.
Author : Dr. Sahadeva Das
Publisher : Golden Age Media
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9788190976015
This book (End Of Modern Civilization & Alternative Future) is an authoritative work in civilizational studies as it relates to our future. Dr. Dasa has analyzed human civilizations in the last 5000 years and the reasons these civilizations went into oblivion. Each of these civilizations collapsed due to one or two factors like neglect of soil, moral degradation, or leadership crisis. But in our civilization, all these factors along with many additional ones are operational.
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264247826
This report develops three contrasting scenarios to illustrate alternative futures, based on several global economic models and extensive stakeholder discussions, and outlines policy considerations to help ensure that future needs are met sustainably.
Author : Erualdo González Romero,Michelle E. Zuñiga,Ashley C. Hernandez,Rodolfo D. Torres
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000585704
Gentrification is one of the most debilitating—and least understood—issues in American cities today. 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. Authors in this collection begin to unpack and explore the forces that underlie these significant changes in an area’s social character and spatial landscape. Central in their analyses is an emphasis on racial formations and class relations, as they each look to find the essence of the urban condition through processes of demographic change, economic restructuring, and gentrification. Their original findings locate gentrification within a carefully integrated theoretical and political framework and challenge readers to look critically at the present and future of gentrification studies. Gentrification, Displacement, and Alternative Futures is a vital read for scholars and researchers, as well as planners and organizers hoping to understand the contemporary changes happening in our urban areas.
Author : Raquel Pinderhughes
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0742523675
Alternative Urban Futures challenges existing models of urban development and promotes alternative paradigms, processes, and technologies designed to fulfill human needs and limit the harmful impacts of human activities on the environment. The book focuses on how planners and policy makers can develop and manage essential urban infrastructures in ways that support sustainable development in the areas of waste management, water supply and management, energy production and use, building design and construction, land-use, transportation, and food systems. Each chapter features case studies that provide concrete examples of how ecologically and socially responsible urban and sustainable development planning and policy approaches have been successfully implemented in cities around the world. The book is especially effective in its emphasis on recently published statistics and writing supporting new planning and policy recommendations. Each chapter ends with a summary, accompanied by a list of questions that can be addressed with information provided in the text.
