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Alternative Futures for Changing Landscapes

Author : Carl Steinitz
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 9781559632249
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (322 download)

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Download or read book Alternative Futures for Changing Landscapes written by Carl Steinitz and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading landscape architect and planner Carl Steinitz has developed an innovative GIS-based simulation modeling strategy that considers the demographic, economic, physical, and environmental processes of an area and projects the consequences to that area of various land-use planning and management decisions. The results of such projections, and the approach itself, are known as "alternative futures." Alternative Futures for Changing Landscapes presents for the first time in book form a detailed case study of one alternative futures project—an analysis of development and conservation options for the Upper San Pedro River Basin in Arizona and Sonora, Mexico. The area is internationally recognized for its high levels of biodiversity, and like many regions, it is facing increased pressures from nearby population centers, agriculture, and mining interests. Local officials and others planning for the future of the region are seeking to balance the needs of the natural environment with those of local human communities. The book describes how the research team, working with local stakeholders, developed a set of scenarios which encompassed public opinion on the major issues facing the area. They then simulated an array of possible patterns of land uses and assessed the resultant impacts on biodiversity and related environmental factors including vegetation, hydrology, and visual preference. The book gives a comprehensive overview of how the study was conducted, along with descriptions and analysis of the alternative futures that resulted. It includes more than 30 charts and graphs and more than 150 color figures. Scenario-based studies of alternative futures offer communities a powerful tool for making better-informed decisions today, which can help lead to an improved future. Alternative Futures for Changing Landscapes presents an important look at this promising approach and how it works for planners, landscape architects, local officials, and anyone involved with making land use decisions on local and regional scales.

Third International Conference on System Science in Health Care

Author : W. van Eimeren
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642699391
Total Pages : 1444 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Third International Conference on System Science in Health Care written by W. van Eimeren and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 1444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early stages of planning the Third International Conference in System Science in Health Care, the steering committee members, most of whom had participated in the first conference in Paris (1976) and the second in Montreal (1980), made some basic decisions about organization of subject matter. The earlier meetings had been very successful in bringing together specialists from the health professions and the traditional sciences. In addition to physicians and nurses, these were representatives of the disciplines of the behavioral sciences, system theory, economics, engineering, and the emergency fields of management science and informatics -all concerned with the development of health resources in a broad system context. The reported research and experience of the many disciplines represented had dealt with one or more of three concerns: 1) a major health problem, such as cardiovascular disease, or an important popUlation at risk, such as the elderly or children or workers; 2) some generic aspect of organization and decision making, including trial and evaluation ofinnovative health strategies; and 3) the methodology of research and analysis in system of health service. The challenge to the conference organizers lay in the eliciting and arranging of experiences in such a way that the health services could be seen as purposeful,living, evolving systems.

Methods In Futures Studies

Author : Brita Schwarz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 042971680X
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book Methods In Futures Studies written by Brita Schwarz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-04 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents three examples of futures research that illustrate the problems of applying knowledge during the course of a futures research project, the ways in which different methodologies interact, and various means of combining and adapting methodological tools and techniques.

Gentrification, Displacement, and Alternative Futures

Author : Erualdo González Romero
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000585700
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Book Synopsis Gentrification, Displacement, and Alternative Futures by : Erualdo González Romero

Download or read book Gentrification, Displacement, and Alternative Futures written by Erualdo González Romero and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-05-05 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gentrification is one of the most debilitating—and least understood—issues in American cities today. Scholars and community activists adjoin in Gentrification, Displacement, and Alternative Futures to engage directly and critically with the issue of gentrification and to address its impacts on marginalized, materially exploited, and displaced communities. Authors in this collection begin to unpack and explore the forces that underlie these significant changes in an area’s social character and spatial landscape. Central in their analyses is an emphasis on racial formations and class relations, as they each look to find the essence of the urban condition through processes of demographic change, economic restructuring, and gentrification. Their original findings locate gentrification within a carefully integrated theoretical and political framework and challenge readers to look critically at the present and future of gentrification studies. Gentrification, Displacement, and Alternative Futures is a vital read for scholars and researchers, as well as planners and organizers hoping to understand the contemporary changes happening in our urban areas.

Working Papers in Alternative Futures and Environmental Quality

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Working Papers in Alternative Futures and Environmental Quality written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

ExtrACTION

Author : Kirk Jalbert
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351847309
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book ExtrACTION written by Kirk Jalbert and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-06-26 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely volume examines resistance to natural resource extraction from a critical ethnographic perspective. Using a range of case studies from North, Central and South America, Australia, and Central Asia, the contributors explore how and why resistance movements seek to change extraction policies, evaluating their similarities, differences, successes and failures. A range of ongoing debates concerning environmental justice, risk and disaster, sacrifice zones, and the economic cycles of boom and bust are considered, and the roles of governments, free markets and civil society groups re-examined. Incorporating contributions from authors in the fields of anthropology, public policy, environmental health, and community-based advocacy, ExtrACTION offers a robustly argued case for change. It will make engaging reading for academics and students in the fields of critical anthropology, public policy, and politics, as well as activists and other interested citizens.

Alternative Futures

Author : K J Joy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789387280090
Total Pages : 710 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Alternative Futures written by K J Joy and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remarkable, first-ever collection of 35 essays on India's future, by a diverse set of authors - activists, researchers, media practitioners, those who have influenced policies and those working at the grassroots. This book brings together scenarios of an India that is politically and socially egalitarian, radically democratic, economically sustainable and equitable, and socio-culturally diverse and harmonious. Alternative Futures: India Unshackled covers a wide range of issues, organized under four sections. It explores ecological futures including environmental governance, biodiversity conservation, water and energy. Next, it envisions political futures including those of democracy and power, law, ideology, and India's role in the globe. A number of essays then look at economic futures, including agriculture, pastoralism, industry, crafts, villages and cities, localization, markets, transportation and technology. Finally, it explores socio-cultural futures, encompassing languages, learning and education, knowledge, health, sexuality and gender, and marginalized sections like dalits, adivasis, and religious minorities. Introductory and concluding essays tie these diverse visions together. Most essays include both futuristic scenarios and present initiatives that demonstrate the possibility of such futures. At a time when India faces increasing polarization along parochial, physical and mental boundaries, these essays provide a breath of fresh air and hope in the grounded possibilities for an alternative, decentralized, eco-culturally centred future. The essays range from the dreamy-eyed to the hard-headed, from the provocative to the gently persuasive. This book would hold appeal for a wide range of readers - youth, academics, development professionals, policy makers, government officials, activists, people's movements, media persons, business persons - concerned about the current state of India and the world, and willing to engage critically in the collective search for a better future.

Planning Alternative World Futures

Author : Louis René Beres
Publisher : Praeger Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Planning Alternative World Futures written by Louis René Beres and published by Praeger Publishers. This book was released on 1975 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Addresses ... the concept and design of alternative futures for such urgent world problems as international and national security systems, populations, diminishing natural resources, environmental deterioration, and the widening gap between rich and poor"--Cover 4.

Foundations of Futures Studies

Author : Wendell Bell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351519395
Total Pages : 579 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Foundations of Futures Studies written by Wendell Bell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Alternative Futures and Educational Policy

Author : Educational Policy Research Center (Stanford Research Institute)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Alternative Futures and Educational Policy written by Educational Policy Research Center (Stanford Research Institute) and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

New Thinking for a New Millennium

Author : Richard A. Slaughter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134793901
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book New Thinking for a New Millennium written by Richard A. Slaughter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Richard Slaughter draws on the relatively new but rapidly developing field of futures studies to illustrate how our thinking must change in order to deal with the challenges presented by the new millennium. In doing so he brings together the latest work from some of the leading international names in futures thinking. Part One considers the foundations of futures thinking in history, literature and ideas. Part Two explores some of the ways that futures studies have been and are being applied in different educational contexts around the world, from pre-school to postgraduate levels. Part Three takes the crucial step from institutional learning to social learning, and explores how futures provides us with insights which can help guide our society into the new millennium, together with suggestions for the development of the field itself. This book is essential reading for teachers, students and anyone interested in the perils and promise of the twenty-first century.

Alternative Futures and Educational Policy

Author : Educational Policy Research Center (Stanford Research Institute)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alternative Futures and Educational Policy written by Educational Policy Research Center (Stanford Research Institute) and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Working Papers in Alternative Futures and Environmental Quality, Etc

Author : United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Environmental Studies Division
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book Working Papers in Alternative Futures and Environmental Quality, Etc written by United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Environmental Studies Division and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Alternative Futures for the Department of Energy National Laboratories

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Energy Research and Development
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alternative Futures for the Department of Energy National Laboratories written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Energy Research and Development and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Foundations of Futures Studies

Author : Jose Valciukas
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351519425
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Foundations of Futures Studies written by Jose Valciukas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Futures Research

Author : Hawaii Research Center for Futures Study
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Futures Research written by Hawaii Research Center for Futures Study and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No. 1. Barber, R.J. Future food. [1971]--no. 2. Paige, G.D. From development administration to futures administration: toward a school of Pacific futures. [1971?]--no. 3. Dator, J.A. Comments on the Hawaii Senate's seminar "on planning.' [1973?].

Rescuing All Our Futures

Author : Ziauddin Sardar
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 : 0275965597
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (759 download)

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Download or read book Rescuing All Our Futures written by Ziauddin Sardar and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1999-03-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that 'futures studies' has abandoned its goal of exploring diverse and alternative futures. Its over-emphasis on forecasting and prediction, its over-preoccupation with technology and its neglect of non-western cultures and concerns have all transformed it into an instrument for the colonisation of the future.