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Future Worlds
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Author : John Gribbin
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06
Future Worlds written by John Gribbin and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with Science categories.
During the middle and late 1960s, concern about the way the world might be going began to move out of the arena of academic debate amongst specialists, and became a topic of almost everyday interest to millions of people. Concern about mankind's disruption of the natural balance of 'the environment' brought the term 'ecology' into widespread use, though not always with the meaning to be found in the dictionary, and fears that world population might be growing so rapidly that very soon we would run out of food, resulting in mass starvation and a disastrous collapse of civilisation, helped to make books such as The Limits to Growth best sellers in the early 1970s. Today, quite rightly, decisions on long-term policy with widespread repercussions - most notably, those concerning nuclear energy planning - are a subject of equally widespread public discussion. But all too often such debate focuses on specific issues without the prob lems ever being related effectively to an overall vision of where the world is going and how it is going to get there. At the Science Policy Res~arch Unit, University of Sussex, a group working on studies of social and tech nological alternatives for the future has been contributing to 'the futures debate' for several years, cautiously (perhaps, in a sense, almost too cautiously!) developing a secure foundation for forecasting the way the world may develop.
World Futures
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Author : Christopher Freeman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
World Futures written by Christopher Freeman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Business & Economics categories.
Global Transformations And World Futures Volume I
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Author : Sohail Tahir Inayatullah
language : en
Publisher: EOLSS Publications
Release Date : 2009-10-20
Global Transformations And World Futures Volume I written by Sohail Tahir Inayatullah and has been published by EOLSS Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-20 with categories.
Global Transformations and World Futures is a component of Encyclopedia of Development and Economic Sciences in the global Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), which is an integrated compendium of twenty one Encyclopedias. The Theme on Global Transformations and World Futures, in two volumes, deals with the diversity of points of view on this complex subject. The chapters in these volumes are organized into three groups. The first starts with chapters introducing the Global transformations in Knowledge: Social and Cultural issues. Issues such as the nature of global science, the challenge of building real communities in a virtual world, and the transition from an information economy to a communicative economy are explored. The second presents the Global Economy. The final group discusses the World Futures. These two volumes are aimed at the following five major target audiences: University and College students Educators, Professional practitioners, Research personnel and Policy analysts, managers, and decision makers and NGOs.
Global Futures
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Author : Jan Nederveen Pieterse
language : en
Publisher: Zed Books
Release Date : 2000
Global Futures written by Jan Nederveen Pieterse and has been published by Zed Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Business & Economics categories.
This work looks beyond the problems of accelerating globalization to examine how humanity can shape it. The contributors suggest a variety of perspectives, changes, policies and institutional reforms to strive for in our increasingly inter-connected world.
The Future Of The World
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Author : Jenny Andersson
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018-07-26
The Future Of The World written by Jenny Andersson and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-26 with History categories.
The Future of the World is devoted to the intriguing field of study which emerged after World War Two, futurism or futurology. Jenny Andersson explains how futurist scholars and researchers imagined the Cold War and post Cold War world and the tools and methods they would use to influence and change that world. Futurists were a motley crew of Cold War warriors, nuclear scientists, journalists, and peace activists. Some argued it should be a closed sphere of science defined by delimited probabilities. They were challenged by alternative notions of the future as a potentially open realm. Futurism also drew on an eclectic range of repertoires, some of which were deduced from positivist social science, mathematics, and nuclear physics, and some of which sprung from alternative forms of knowledge in science fiction, journalism, or religion. These different forms of prediction laid very different claims to how accurately futures could be known, and what kind of control could be exerted over what was yet to come. The Future of the World carefully examines these different engagements with the future, and inscribes them in the intellectual history of the post war period. Using unexplored archival collections, The Future of the World reconstructs the Cold War networks of futurologists and futurists.
Planning Alternative World Futures
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Author : Louis René Beres
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
Planning Alternative World Futures written by Louis René Beres and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with International organization categories.
International Futures
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Author : Barry B Hughes
language : en
Publisher: Westview Press
Release Date : 1996-08
International Futures written by Barry B Hughes and has been published by Westview Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-08 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Fully updated and including a new and expanded Windows computer simulation, this unique text/disk combination provides a survey of alternative futures in international relations. By manipulating a wide range of variables in major countries and geographical regions students can generate a limitless number of future scenarios in the areas of demographics, food, energy, the environment, economics, and international politics. This new edition of International Futures coherently defines and develops key concepts in global issues and allows interactive development of alternative views of our global future. Complete with tables, flowcharts, feedback loops, computer notes, and research suggestions, the text and simulation allow students to transcend the usual level of speculation about the future by moving to an empirically grounded, values-based consideration of issues, strategies, and outcomes. The broader environmental context of international politics is a special focus of the new edition, just as it has emerged as one of the most important areas in international relations. IFs, a computer simulation to accompany International Futures, is now available in Windows format. It requires the following to operate: an 80386 processor or higher; an EGA, VGA, 8514, Hercules, or compatible display; at least four megabytes of RAM; a hard disk with at least four megabytes of free space; a 3 1/2-inch floppy drive, high density; a mouse; MS-DOS 3.1 or higher; Windows 3.1 or higher in standard or enhanced (not real) mode.
World Futures
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Author : Barry B. Hughes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
World Futures written by Barry B. Hughes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Business & Economics categories.
Literature survey and evaluation of forecasting techniques and economic models used in futures studies - surveys the controversies in social and economic forecasting; examines theoretical aspects and empirical evidence of diversity in food, energy, population, economic growth, business cycle, and technological change forecasting; studies the role of institutional framework, attitudes, political aspects, value systems, etc. In creating divergent perspectives. Bibliography, graphs, statistical tables.
Imagining Global Futures
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Author : Adom Getachew
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2023-01-17
Imagining Global Futures written by Adom Getachew and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-17 with Political Science categories.
A collection of post-colonial visions for a more just world. What does a just world look like? This volume begins with a planet beset by accumulating crises—environmental, social, and political—and imagines how we can move beyond them. Drawing on the legacy of post-colonial struggles for liberation, Imagining Global Futures explores a range of radical visions for a world after neoliberalism and empire. Centered on movements in the Global South, the collection challenges dominant patterns of social and political life and sketches more just and sustainable futures we might build in their place. What can we learn from alternative conceptions of the good life? How can we build a world where people are both freer and more equal? An urgent resource for collective imagination, Imagining Global Futures counterposes thick visions of a better world to our dystopian present.
The World Scientific Handbook Of Futures Markets
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Author : Anastasios G Malliaris
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2015-08-06
The World Scientific Handbook Of Futures Markets written by Anastasios G Malliaris and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-06 with Business & Economics categories.
The World Scientific Handbook of Futures Markets serves as a definitive source for comprehensive and accessible information in futures markets. The emphasis is on the unique characteristics of futures markets that make them worthy of a special volume. In our judgment, futures markets are currently undergoing remarkable changes as trading is shifting from open outcry to electronic and as the traditional functions of hedging and speculation are extended to include futures as an alternative investment vehicle in traditional portfolios. The unique feature of this volume is the selection of five classic papers that lay the foundations of the futures markets and the invitation to the leading academics who do work in the area to write critical surveys in a dozen important topics.