The Next Three Futures
Author: W. Warren Wagar
Publisher:
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 165
ISBN-13: 9780744900439
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: W. Warren Wagar
Publisher:
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 165
ISBN-13: 9780744900439
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: David Hicks
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 074942236X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: L. Simón
Publisher: IOS Press
Published: 2022-11
Total Pages: 82
ISBN-13: 1643683292
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The global balance of power has been shifting throughout the past decade and, faced with a changing security landscape, more countries across the NATO alliance and around the world have been compelled to reassess their defense and security strategies. This book, NATO and the South: A Tale of Three Futures, presents a report based on a study conducted in the framework of a NATO SPS Multi-Year Project and designed to assess and explore key variables likely to impact the political environment of NATO’s southern neighborhood over the coming years. The book reiterates the importance of a ‘consistent, clear and coherent’ approach to the South with the aim of ensuring that NATO remains ready, strong, and united for a new era of increased global competition. It outlines possible sources of change and introduces additional perspectives, exploring ways in which the Alliance can continue to adapt. Conflict spillover from fragile or failing states, instability and terrorism in the Sahel and Iraq, transnational terrorist groups such as Daesh and Al Qaeda and illegal trafficking of small arms and light weapons are all covered, as are the deteriorating security situation in the Sahel, the growing terrorist threat, and the instability of several countries in the area which constitute serious concerns for the alliance. The book and its recommendations provide a timely contribution to the reflection surrounding the development of the new NATO Strategic Concept in the context of preparations for the Madrid Summit, providing a useful basis to inform decision-makers from NATO member and partner countries.
Author: Wendell Bell
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-28
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 1351519409
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Futures studies is a new field of inquiry involving systematic and explicit thinking about alternative futures. Wendell Bell's two-volume work Foundations of Futures Studies is widely acknowledged as the fundamental work on the subject. In Volume 2, Bell goes beyond possible and probable futures to the study of preferable futures. He shows that concern with ethics, morality, and human values follows directly from the futurist purposes of discovering or inventing, examining, and proposing desirable futures. He examines moral judgments as an inescapable aspect of all decision-making and conscious action, even in the everyday lives of ordinary people.Now available in paperback with a new preface from the author, Volume 2 of Foundations of Futures Studies moves beyond cultural relativism to critical evaluation. Bell compares depictions of the good society by utopian writers, describes objective methods of moral judgment, assesses religion and law as sources of what is morally right, documents the existence of universal human values, and shows that if human beings are to thrive in the global society of the future, some human values must be changed.
Author: Wendell Bell
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published:
Total Pages: 406
ISBN-13: 141282379X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Futures studies is a new field of inquiry involving systematic and explicit thinking about alternative futures. It aims to demystify the future, make possibilities for the future more known to us, and increase human control over the future. Author Wendell Bell brings together futurist intellectual tools, describing and explaining not only the methods, but also the nature, concepts, theories, and exemplars of the field. Now available in paperback with a new preface from the author, Foundations of Future Studies is the fundamental work on the subject. Bell illustrates how this sphere of intellectual activity offers hope for the future of humanity and concrete ways of realizing that hope in the real world of everyday life. His book will appeal to all interested in futures studies, sociology, economics, political science, and history.
Author: Richard Slaughter
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780415302708
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →How can dystopian futures help provide the motivation to change the ways we operate day to day? This book raises and tackles a number of important questions about the future and the lessons we can learn for the present.
Author: Jose Valciukas
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 507
ISBN-13: 1351519425
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Futures studies is a new field of inquiry involving systematic and explicit thinking about alternative futures. It aims to demystify the future, make possibilities for the future more known to us, and increase human control over the future. This book summarizes and expands contributions of futurists to the envisioning power and well-being of humanity. Bell brings together futurist intellectual tools, describing and explaining not only the methods, but also the nature, concepts, theories, and exemplars of the field.Foundations of Futures Studies fulfills Bell's five main purposes for writing this two-volume effort: (1) to show that futures studies, like other fields from anthropology to zoology, exists as an identifiable sphere of intellectual activity; (2) to create a teaching instrument that can be used as a basic text for core courses in futures studies; (3) to futurize the thinking of specialists in other disciplines; (4) to contribute to the further development and improvement of futures studies; and (5) to provide tools to empower both ordinary people and leaders to act in ways that create better futures for themselves and their societies. Bell maintains that despite its sometimes doomsday rhetorical style and widespread use by special interests, futures studies offers hope for the future of humanity and concrete ways of realizing that hope in the real world of our everyday lives. It will appeal to all interested in futures studies, as well as sociologists, economists, political scientists, and historians.
Author: David Hicks
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 165
ISBN-13: 0415276721
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Lessons for the Future, Davis Hicks provides an insight into, and an argument for, futures education. He discusses the latest innovative teaching and research in the field and looks at young people's attitudes to the future.
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2008-01-01
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9087905130
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“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: Michael Marien
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 1993-01-30
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780930242435
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