Realistic Hope

Facing Global Challenges
Herausgeber: Wilkinson, Angela; Flowers, Betty Sue

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Produktbeschreibung

Realistic Hope is written by an international and influential collection of future shapers. It is aimed at anyone who is interested in learning to use open futures thinking to refresh the present, forge new, common ground, and redesign destiny.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 433g
• ISBN-13: 9789462987241
• ISBN-10: 9462987246
• Artikelnr.: 53844278

Autorenporträt

Angela Wilkinson, PhD (Physics), is Associate Fellow, Said Business School, University of Oxford and former Director of Foresight for the OECD. She is a recognised and respected global leading scholar and practitioner in scenario planning and foresight. She spent a decade in Shell's global scenario team. Betty Sue Flowers, PhD (Literature), is Professor Emeritus at UT-Austin and former Director of the Johnson Presidential Library. She has served as a moderator for executive seminars at the Aspen Institute, consultant for NASA, CIA, and the Secretary of the Navy, and scenario writer for organizations including Shell, the OAS, Eskom, IPIECA, and the WBCSD.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword: Realising Hope Ged R. Davis
former Managing Director
World Economic Forum (Davos) and co-author
Catalytic Governance Introduction: Building Better Futures 1. Making Globalisation Work Carl Dahlman
former Head of Research
Development Centre
OECD 2. Energy: A Better Life with a Healthy Planet Jeremy Bentham
Vice President
Global Business Environment and Head of Shell Scenarios
Royal Dutch Shell 3. Are Major Wars More Likely in the Future? Joëlle Jenny
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
Harvard University and former Director for Security Policy and Conflict Prevention
EU External Action Service Alyssa Stalsberg Canelli
Assistant Director
Experiential Learning and Teaching
Brandeis University 4. The Future of Work Peter Schwartz Senior Vice President Strategic Planning
Salesforce.com and author of Inevitable Surprises. 5. Digital Technologies: Every Cloud has a Silver Lining Claire Naughtin
Research Scientist
Strategic Foresight
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation's Data61 Stefan Hajkowicz
Principal Scientist
Strategic Foresight
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation's Data61 and author
Making Globalisation Work 6. Cities to the Rescue: A New Scale for Dealing with Climate Change Tim O'Riordan
Emeritus Professor of Environmental Sciences
University of East Anglia and head of the sustainability policy programme for the British Academy Viviana M. Jiménez
researcher
UN Environment Programme and the University of Oxford Keith Clarke
CBE
Chair of Future Cities Catapult and Chair of Forum for the Future 7. The Future of Global Poverty Claudia Juech
Executive Director
Cloudera Foundation and former Managing Director of Strategic Insights
Rockefeller Foundation Chukwudi Onike
Program Associate for Strategic Insights
Rockefeller Foundation 8. Transcending Boundaries - the Realistic Hope for Water Alejandro Litovsky
Chief Executive
Earth Security Group 9. Health Systems: Doomed to Fail or about to be Saved by a Copernican Shift? Kristel Van der Elst
CEO of The Global Foresight Group and former Head of Strategic Foresight
World Economic Forum (Davos) Rudi Pauwels
Founder and President
Praesens Foundation
and co-founder
Biocartis
Tibotec
Virco
and Galapagos Genomics 10. Seeding the Future: Challenges to Global Food Systems Ariella Helfgott
Copernicus Institute
Utrecht University and Senior Researcher
Environmental Change Institute
University of Oxford Joost Vervoort
Copernicus Institute
Utrecht University and Senior Researcher
Environmental Change Institute
University of Oxford 11. The Great Livestock Trade-off: Food Production
Poverty Alleviation
and Climate Change Luke York
PhD
School of Agriculture
Policy
and Development
University of Reading Claire Heffernan
Director
London's International Development Centre 12. Rethinking Economics for Global Challenges Christian Kastrop
Program Director
Bertelsmann Foundation and former Director
Policy Studies Branch
OECD 13. Leadership and the Future of Democratic Societies Martin Mayer
co-founder
YouMeO Verena Ringler
Stiftung Mercator 14. Prototyping the Future: A New Approach to Whole-of-Society Visioning Alenka Smerkolj
minister responsible for strategic planning and development
Government of Slovenia Timotej ¿oö
National Development Strategy Lead
Government of Slovenia Five Principles of Realistic Hope Angela Wilkinson and Betty Sue Flowers Epilogue: From the Eclipse of Utopia to the Restoration of Hope Jay Ogilvy
Co-founder
Global Business Network
Acknowledgements
Index