Author : Michael Marien
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 30,40 MB
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780930242350
BMW Z-cars have carved a huge reputation for themselves in a very short time. From the revolutionary and innovative Z1 of the late 1980s to the beautiful and exclusive Z8 of more recent times, via the popular Z3 and its controversial replacement, the Z4, the family has made BMW's name in the increasingly competitive sports-car market.
Author : Lewis D. Hopkins
Publisher : Lincoln Inst of Land Policy
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 20,73 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9781558441705
Engaging the future successfully will require the active participation of planners, community leaders, and many individuals, as well as the contributions of students and scholars of planning. To shape any number of possible futures, we must imagine them in advance and understand how they might emerge. Forecasts, scenarios, plans, and projects are four ways of representing, manipulating, and assessing ideas about the future. The chapters in this richly illustrated volume offer a variety of tools and examples to help planners advocate for a new kind of planning--one that allows communities to face uncertain and malleable futures with continuous and deliberative planning activities.
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Page : 360 pages
File Size : 32,90 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Policy sciences
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File Size : 37,71 MB
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Author : Asian Development Bank
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 46,20 MB
Release : 2020-04-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9292621823
Futures thinking and foresight is a powerful planning approach that can help Asia and the Pacific countries meet economic, political, social, and environmental and climate change challenges. This publication shows how the Asian Development Bank (ADB) piloted this approach to understand entry points to support transformational change in the region. It compiles lessons from an ADB initiative to apply futures and foresight tools in Armenia, Cambodia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, the People's Republic of China, the Philippines, and Timor-Leste. Futures terminology is introduced as are specific tools such as emerging issues analysis, scenario planning, and backcasting. It also describes how futures and foresight tools were applied in the countries.
Author : Robert Rosen
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 32,47 MB
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 1483286274
The first detailed study of this most important class of systems which contain internal predictive models of themselves and/or of their environments and whose predictions are utilized for purposes of present control. This book develops the basic concept of a predictive model, and shows how it can be embedded into a system of feedforward control. Includes many examples and stresses analogies between wired-in anticipatory control and processes of learning and adaption, at both individual and social levels. Shows how the basic theory of such systems throws a new light both on analytic problems (understanding what is going on in an organism or a social system) and synthetic ones (developing forecasting methods for making individual or collective decisions).
Author : Margaret Mead
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 39,52 MB
Release : 2005-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1789206006
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.
Author : P. Bishop
Publisher : Springer
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 24,29 MB
Release : 2012-06-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1137020709
The faculty at the University of Houston's program in Futures Studies share their comprehensive, integrated approach to preparing foresight professionals and assisting others doing foresight projects. Provides an essential guide to developing classes on the future or even establishing whole degree programs.
Author : W. Warren Wagar
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 20,22 MB
Release : 1999-08
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780226869032
Narrated by a far-future historian, Peter Jensen leaves an account of the world from the 1990s to the opening of the 23rd century as a gift to his granddaughter. A combination of fiction and scholarship, this third edition of Wagar's speculative history of the future alternates between descriptions of world events and intimate glimpses of this historian's family into the first centuries of the new millennium.
Author : Zoé A. Hamstead
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 41,63 MB
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 3030631311
This open access book addresses the way in which urban and urbanizing regions profoundly impact and are impacted by climate change. The editors and authors show why cities must wage simultaneous battles to curb global climate change trends while adapting and transforming to address local climate impacts. This book addresses how cities develop anticipatory and long-range planning capacities for more resilient futures, earnest collaboration across disciplines, and radical reconfigurations of the power regimes that have institutionalized the disenfranchisement of minority groups. Although planning processes consider visions for the future, the editors highlight a more ambitious long-term positive visioning approach that accounts for unpredictability, system dynamics and equity in decision-making. This volume brings the science of urban transformation together with practices of professionals who govern and manage our social, ecological and technological systems to design processes by which cities may achieve resilient urban futures in the face of climate change.
