Author: Wassily Leontief
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN: MINN:31951D02361185B
Category: Economic assistance
Page: 110
View: 818
The Future of the World
The Future of the World is devoted to the intriguing field of study which emerged after World War Two, futurism or futurology.
Author: Jenny Andersson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780192545510
Category: History
Page: 288
View: 457
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.Latin America in the Future World
Saint Louis the Future Great City of the World
World Grain Trade Implications for the Future 1975 1985
0181 U.S. grain transportation network needs system perspective to meet future
world needs : report / by the Comptroller General of the United States . (
Washington , D.C. ) U.S. General Accounting Office 1981. Cover title ~ " CED - 81
-59 .
Author: Mary E. Lassanyi
Publisher:
ISBN: MINN:31951002939612C
Category: Grain trade
Page: 18
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Japanese Public Opinion on the U S as a Future World Power
rmin ONLINE OnntAINT LUST GENERAL OPTIMISM - PESSIMISM ABOUT THE
FUTURE The Japanese public has a predominantly optimistic outlook regarding
life on this planet . By about a 3 to 1 margin Japanese agree that the world is a ...
Author: United States Information Agency. Office of Research
Publisher:
ISBN: IND:30000126547136
Category: United States
Page: 23
View: 445
Prospects for Future World Coal Trade
In this report , the U.S. participation in future world steam coal trade , during the
1985-2000 period , is analyzed using low- , mid- , and high - demand scenarios .
Since the United States , historically , has been a major supplier of metallurgical ...
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: UCSD:31822028964245
Category: Coal trade
Page: 35
View: 367
A Future World in which mankind shall survive their mortal durations demonstrated by Rational Evidence from Natural and Moral Arguments against the Atheist s Pretentions
... and especially upon the Prospect of the promiscuous usage of the Good and
Evil in this World , nothing could so solve the difficulties of such Observations ,
but that they were necessicated to admit the acknowledgment of a Future World ,
I ...
Author: William SMITH (D.D., Prebendary of Norwich.)
Publisher:
ISBN: BL:A0020301498
Category: Immortality
Page: 444
View: 384
The future world of energy
Based on the Universe of Energy exhibit at Walt Disney's EPCOT Center, discusses the history and the future of energy sources.
Author: John Douglas
Publisher: Grolier, Inc.
ISBN: 071728140X
Category: Juvenile Nonfiction
Page: 112
View: 149
Based on the Universe of Energy exhibit at Walt Disney's EPCOT Center, discusses the history and the future of energy sources.An Evaluation of Future World Oil Prices
In OMS, the feedback elasticities are defined as the expected percent reduction
in GNP that would be caused by a one percent increase in the world oil price.
The elastic it ies for the United States that were obtained in the high domestic ...
Author: Kenneth L. Kincel
Publisher:
ISBN: UCSD:31822028929008
Category: Gasoline
Page: 77
View: 331
New Forces Old Forces and the Future of World Politics
This is an argument for reform of the traditional norms and structures of international relations.
Author: Seyom Brown
Publisher: Harpercollins College Division
ISBN: WISC:89071890404
Category: Political Science
Page: 280
View: 545
This is an argument for reform of the traditional norms and structures of international relations. Brown's argument in this book, maintains that world politics is in a crisis of incongruence between the world's traditional structure of governance (the nation-state system) and the most important interactions of people. Symptoms of this systematic crisis include: the epidemic of violent inter-ethnic conflicts; secessionist and self-determination movements; waves of international terrorism; contraband in weapons and drugs and ecological threats to the health of living organisms. This text's analysis probes beneath the surface of these events to determine their underlying causes and to find new policies and institutions conducive to a more safe and just world order.The World Ahead
This volume collects, for the first time, her writings on the future of humanity and how humans can shape that future through purposeful action. For Mead, the study of the future was born out of her lifelong interest in processes of change.
Author: Margaret Mead
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1571818170
Category: Social Science
Page: 348
View: 520
Born in the first year of the 20th century, it is fitting that Margaret Mead should have been one of the first anthropologists to use anthropological analysis to study the future course of human civilization. This volume collects, for the first time, her writings on the future of humanity and how humans can shape that future through purposeful action. For Mead, the study of the future was born out of her lifelong interest in processes of change. Many of these papers were originally published as conference proceedings or in limited-circulation journals, testimony before government bodies and chapters in works edited by others. They show Mead's wisdom, prescience and concern for the future of humanity.The Future of the world economy
The Future of the World s Forests
Forest products trade issues have come before the World Trade Organization (
WTO) and international consultations in the United Nations Forum on Forests (
UNFF) and the International Tropical Timber Organization. Voluntary certification
of ...
Author: Jim Douglas
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9048195829
Category: Technology & Engineering
Page: 214
View: 916
At the landmark 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (Earth Summit), solemn resolutions were made both to protect the world’s biodiversity and to co-operate on managing natural forests in a sustainable and ecologically responsible way. If anything, given recent developments in issues such as climate change and poverty, the problem of protecting and sustaining forests should logically have become more important globally. Yet public interest in, and development support for, forest activities have declined and rates of forest loss remain stubbornly high. Why has this happened? This book seeks answers to this question. It examines the often dysfunctional relationships between various members of the international forest constituency, which have so often prevented the formation of consensus. It also explores the tendency to pursue technical and politically convenient ‘fixes’ focused on the internal workings of the forest sector, while ignoring the overwhelming influence of external forces on the fate of forests. The result, all too often, has been programs which benefit a few powerful players and fail to provide real solutions. The book provides a new examination of and perspective on the international forest policy debate. It clarifies the reasons for global forest conflicts and provides insight for future policy development. Including examples from both the developed and developing world, it provides an invaluable resource for researchers and graduate students in forest policy and international relations, as well as a useful reference for policymakers and professionals in the forest sector, the development community and conservationists. With significant global attention now focused on reducing carbon emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD), the authors examine the promise and the potential problems that apply to this initiative.Footsteps Into the Future
Futuring
Introduction The need to conduct a comprehensive study of the reality of the
Islamic world is all the more important that there is an increasingly urgent
necessity to foresee the future and intensity the ways and means to control future
...
Author: تويجري، عبد العزيز بن عثمان
Publisher:
ISBN: UOM:39015038398973
Category: Islamic countries
Page: 95
View: 660
Feeding the Future
Outlines practical solutions to global food supply problems in the twenty-first century, suggesting relevant ways to address key issues related to food safety, conservation, global trade, and more. Original.
Author: Andrew Heintzman
Publisher: House of Anansi
ISBN: 0887847447
Category: Social Science
Page: 317
View: 280
Outlines practical solutions to global food supply problems in the twenty-first century, suggesting relevant ways to address key issues related to food safety, conservation, global trade, and more. Original.Navigating the Future of the World Heritage Marine Programme
This report summarizes the conclusions and recommended actions from the first
meeting of World Heritage marine site managers held in Honolulu, Hawaii (
United States), from 1 to 3 December 2010. The World Heritage Marine
Programme ...
Author: Ehler, Charles
Publisher: UNESCO
ISBN: 9789231042065
Category:
Page: 74
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The Future of the World s Climate
Extreme and catastrophic events in Earth's climate history illuminate the future of
climate thresholds and sensitivity to disturbances. Human activities might
fundamentally alter the dynamics of the climate system, switching it out of its
recent ...
Author: Ann Henderson-Sellers
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 9780123869173
Category: Science
Page: 650
View: 804
The study of climate today seems to be dominated by global warming, but these predictions of climatic models must be placed in their geological, paleo-climatic, and astronomical context to create a complete picture of the Earth's future climate. The Future of the World's Climate presents that perspective with data and projections that have emerged from more technologically advanced and accurate climate modeling. The book is comprised of 18 new and revised chapters that feature reviews of current climate science. The authors are drawn from all over the world and from the highest regarded peer-reviewed groups. Each chapter has undergone major revisions and new content has been added throughout. Authored by the world's leading climate scientists, most of whom are also contributing authors to the IPCC Assessment Reports. More than 200 tables, diagrams, illustrations, and photographs Climate modeling technology is more advanced and precise than it was 15 years ago-a major implication featured in this new edition.