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Vision 2050

Author : Hiroshi Komiyama
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 4431094318
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Vision 2050 written by Hiroshi Komiyama and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-08-07 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hiroshi Komiyama's "Vision 2050" is a plan for paving a road to global sustainability. It lays out a path to a sustainable future for humanity that could realistically be achieved by 2050 through the application of science and technology. A prominent Japanese academic and leader in global sustainability, Komiyama draws upon realistic assumptions and solid scientific concepts to create a vision that makes the living standards enjoyed by developed countries today possible for all people by 2050. "Vision 2050" is built upon three fundamental principles – increased energy efficiency, recycling, and development of renewable energy sources – and the book argues for the technological potential of all three. Specifically, Komiyama envisions a three-fold increase in overall energy efficiency and a doubling of renewable energy resources by 2050. "Vision 2050: Roadmap for a Sustainable Earth" is written to address the concerned citizen as well as to inspire an exchange of ideas among experts, policy makers, industrial leaders, and the general public.

New Vision 2050

Author : Hiroshi Komiyama
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 4431566236
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book New Vision 2050 written by Hiroshi Komiyama and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the "New Vision 2050," which adds the concept of the “platinum society” to the “Vision 2050”. The 20th century was a century in which energy led the development of material civilization, resulting in deletion of resources, global warming and climate change. What form should sustainable material and energy take to protect the Earth? The "Vision 2050" was established 20 years ago as a model that we should pursue for the next half century. Fortunately, the world is on course for the Vision 2050. The 21st century will be a century in which we seek qualitative richness, with the Vision 2050 as the material basis. That is, a “platinum society” that has resource self-sufficiency and resource symbiosis, and where people remain active throughout their lives and have a wide range of choices and opportunities for free participation. Since the author presented the concept of "Vision 2050" in 1999, the idea has been introduced in two books entitled Vision 2050: Roadmap for a Sustainable Earth (2008) and Beyond the Limits to Growth: New Ideas for Sustainability from Japan (2014). The latter includes a chapter that sheds light on the concept of a “platinum society”. In this publication, the author presents the "New Vision 2050" in more detail.

Visions of 2050

Author : Roger Bourke White Jr.
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1504934067
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Visions of 2050 written by Roger Bourke White Jr. and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to 2050what the real 2050 could be like. This book is about what life will be like when cyber is prolific, self-aware, and in full control of large scale industry, service, and transportation. There will be fascinating changes in how humans live and what they think about. Some changes you will read about are the following: Cyber muses: Behind every great man . . . er, person, there is a good wom . . . er, cyber muse! Wearables and surveillance: These mean fast fixing of problems in both machines and people. Privacy? Third fiddle to fast fix and inspiring body and mind altering. Total entitlement state: Necessities fully covered! Now how about human wants and feelings? The chapters in this book are of two styles: Essays describing what changes will be happening Stories that put a deeply human twist on the ramifications of these changes In this much-changed world, what will people be experiencing, what will they be thinking about, and what will they be aspiring for? These are the questions being asked and answered in Visions of 2050.

New Vision 2050

Author : Hiroshi Komiyama
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781013269738
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (697 download)

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Download or read book New Vision 2050 written by Hiroshi Komiyama and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-08 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the "New Vision 2050," which adds the concept of the "platinum society" to the "Vision 2050".The 20th century was a century in which energy led the development of material civilization, resulting in deletion of resources, global warming and climate change. What form should sustainable material and energy take to protect the Earth? The "Vision 2050" was established 20 years ago as a model that we should pursue for the next half century. Fortunately, the world is on course for the Vision 2050.The 21st century will be a century in which we seek qualitative richness, with the Vision 2050 as the material basis. That is, a "platinum society" that has resource self-sufficiency and resource symbiosis, and where people remain active throughout their lives and have a wide range of choices and opportunities for free participation. Since the author presented the concept of "Vision 2050" in 1999, the idea has been introduced in two books entitled Vision 2050: Roadmap for a Sustainable Earth (2008) and Beyond the Limits to Growth: New Ideas for Sustainability from Japan (2014). The latter includes a chapter that sheds light on the concept of a "platinum society". In this publication, the author presents the "New Vision 2050" in more detail. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.

Vision 2050

Author :
Publisher : World Business Council for
ISBN 13 : 9783940388568
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (885 download)

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Download or read book Vision 2050 written by and published by World Business Council for. This book was released on 2010 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Beyond the Limits to Growth

Author : Hiroshi Komiyama
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 443154559X
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Limits to Growth written by Hiroshi Komiyama and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-02-18 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when contemporary challenges seem to many to be insurmountable, this book offers an optimistic view of the future and provides a road map for societies to get there. Drawing upon extensive research and many years as a thought leader in environmental and sustainability issues in Japan and internationally, Hiroshi Komiyama analyzes the most pressing challenges to the attainment of sustainability of economically advanced nations and argues forcefully for Japan to lead them out of the present dilemma through active promotion of creative consumer and societal demand. He shows how an active industry–government–academic partnership can provide the environment needed to promote such new creative demand and illustrates its potential through presentation of a Platinum Society Network that was launched on a regional basis in Japan in 2010 to facilitate the solution of common issues through the exchange of information and ideas. What is perhaps most surprising about the text is its unwavering optimism supported by hard evidence, history, and insightful observation. Problems arising from new paradigms of the 21st century (what the author refers to as “exploding knowledge, limited Earth resources, and aging societies“) thwart sustainable development in advanced and developing countries alike. All countries will struggle with issues that evolve from these paradigms including diminishing resources, expanding budget deficits, and growing global environmental problems. This window on potential practical pathways and solutions should be of interest to all those engaged in seeking ways to meet these contemporary challenges.

Thinking

Author : Marilyne Andersen
Publisher : Park Publishing (WI)
ISBN 13 : 9783038601319
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Thinking written by Marilyne Andersen and published by Park Publishing (WI). This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The product of an innovative research project realized in cooperation between three Swiss universities--École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne's School of Architecture, the College of Architecture and Technology in Fribourg, and the University of Fribourg--the smart living lab is a research and development center for the built environment of the future. This high-tech structure also serves as an emblem of the cooperative's aim to translate academic research into actual buildings. A new series of books entitled Towards 2050 will showcase the ambitious undertaking at various stages. The inaugural volume in the series, Thinking highlights preliminary research from the smart living lab and considers visions for sustainable buildings. Featuring interviews with leading experts, the book lays out the myriad challenges and opportunities the project is likely to face, as well as its considerable potential to drive change.

2050

Author : Chris Luebkeman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118914848
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (189 download)

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Download or read book 2050 written by Chris Luebkeman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-08-28 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Envisioning a positive future through design 2050: Designing Our Tomorrow describes the ways in which architecture and design can engage with the key drivers of change and provide affirmative aspirations for a not-so distant future. With a focal date of 2050, this issue of AD asks when and how the design community can, should, and must be taking action. The discussion centres on shifts in the urban environment and an established way of life in a world of depleted natural resources and climate change. Featuring interviews with Paola Antonelli of MoMA and Tim Brown of IDEO, it includes contributions from thought leaders, such as Janine Benyus, Thomas Fisher, Daniel Kraft, Alex McDowell, Franz Oswold, and Mark Watts. High-profile designers like FutureCitiesLab, SHoP, and UrbanThinkTank, are featured as examples of forward thinking and innovation in the field, highlighting the need for — and possibility of — a shift in the global perspective. The discussion includes the challenges we face in creating a positive tomorrow, and the solutions that architecture and design can bring to the table. Despite the proliferation of global crises possibly threatening human survival, our current moment provides the opportunity to write a new, positive story about our future. 2050: Designing Our Tomorrow describes how the design community can contribute to that vision by asserting positive aspirations for the worlds we create ourselves. See how architects and designers inspire global positive change Consider architecture's role in shaping cultural outlook Learn the key drivers of change for the built environment Explore the perspectives of leading experts and designers Architects and planners over the centuries have put a stamp upon the planet through the physical manifestations of their belief structures. Today's design community faces a rising wealth gap, climate change, shifting paradigms of nationalism, and myriad other challenges. 2050: Designing Our Tomorrow phrases global issues as a design problem, and describes how architects and designers can rise to the challenge of creating a more positive future.

Geofusion: Mapping Of The 21st Century

Author : Norbert Csizmadia
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9811214670
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Geofusion: Mapping Of The 21st Century written by Norbert Csizmadia and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2020-03-26 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geofusion is an exciting journey around the main issues of the 21st century.This is a book with roadmaps that show the complexity of our world, the interconnections between places, people, schools of thoughts, and disciplines. Starting with a geographical frame of reference, readers are taken through the global geo-economic trends and likely future scenarios as well as the driving forces of the new world economy. The book points to the importance of cities as the power centers for the multidimensional global network of the 21st century. Geofusion is a thought-provoking guidebook to our interconnected world.

2050 China

Author : Angang Hu
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811598339
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (115 download)

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Download or read book 2050 China written by Angang Hu and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. This book is arranged and developed around the theme of “2050 China,” it analyzes the factors and advantages of the Chinese road to socialist modernization, explores and summarizes the development goal and the basic logic of the socialist modernization of China, and further shows the general basis of the primary stage of socialism. According to the report delivered at the 19th Party Congress, and according to the “two-stage” strategic plan, this book looks ahead in detail to the overarching objective and sub-objectives of essentially achieving socialist modernization by 2035, discusses the building of a great modern socialist country in all respects from the perspective of the Party’s six-sphere integrated plan of economic, political, cultural, social, ecological civilization, and national defense construction, and provides policy proposals. This book also analyzes the influence and the effect of the socialist modernization with Chinese characteristics on the world and it further presents the third centenary goal. In conclusion, this book is an elaboration of the work of the Institute for Contemporary China Studies, Tsinghua University. It reflects the intellectual innovation in the authors’ research on contemporary China, as well as the authors’ foresight and predictions about China’s future development.

The Future We Choose

Author : Christiana Figueres
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 052565836X
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (256 download)

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Download or read book The Future We Choose written by Christiana Figueres and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cautionary but optimistic book about the world’s changing climate and the fate of humanity, from Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac—who led negotiations for the United Nations during the historic Paris Agreement of 2015. The authors outline two possible scenarios for our planet. In one, they describe what life on Earth will be like by 2050 if we fail to meet the Paris Agreement’s climate targets. In the other, they lay out what it will be like to live in a regenerative world that has net-zero emissions. They argue for confronting the climate crisis head-on, with determination and optimism. The Future We Choose presents our options and tells us what governments, corporations, and each of us can, and must, do to fend off disaster.

Technological Visions

Author : Marita Sturken
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781592132270
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (322 download)

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Download or read book Technological Visions written by Marita Sturken and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For as long as people have developed new technologies, there has been debate over the purposes, shape, and potential for their use. In this exciting collection, a range of contributors, including Sherry Turkle, Lynn Spigel, John Perry Barlow, Langdon Winner, David Nye, and Lord Asa Briggs, discuss the visions that have shaped "new" technologies and the cultural implications of technological adaptation. Focusing on issues such as the nature of prediction, community, citizenship, consumption, and the nation, as well as the metaphors that have shaped public debates about technology, the authors examine innovations past and present, from the telegraph and the portable television to the Internet, to better understand how our visions and imagination have shaped the meaning and use of technology. Author note: Marita Sturken is Associate Professor in the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California and the author of Tangled Memories: The Vietnam War, the AIDS Epidemic, and the Politics of Remembering and Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture (with Lisa Cartwright). Douglas Thomas is Associate Professor in the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. He is author of three books, most recently Hacker Culture. Sandra Ball-Rokeach is a Professor and Director of the Communication Technology and Community Program in the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. She is author of several books, including Theories of Mass Communication (with M. L. De Fleur).

Sustainable Intensification

Author : Jules N. Pretty
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136529276
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)

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Download or read book Sustainable Intensification written by Jules N. Pretty and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-06-25 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continued population growth, rapidly changing consumption patterns and the impacts of climate change and environmental degradation are driving limited resources of food, energy, water and materials towards critical thresholds worldwide. These pressures are likely to be substantial across Africa, where countries will have to find innovative ways to boost crop and livestock production to avoid becoming more reliant on imports and food aid. Sustainable agricultural intensification - producing more output from the same area of land while reducing the negative environmental impacts - represents a solution for millions of African farmers. This volume presents the lessons learned from 40 sustainable agricultural intensification programmes in 20 countries across Africa, commissioned as part of the UK Government's Foresight project. Through detailed case studies, the authors of each chapter examine how to develop productive and sustainable agricultural systems and how to scale up these systems to reach many more millions of people in the future. Themes covered include crop improvements, agroforestry and soil conservation, conservation agriculture, integrated pest management, horticulture, livestock and fodder crops, aquaculture, and novel policies and partnerships.

Global Renewables Outlook: Energy Transformation 2050

Author : International Renewable Energy Agency IRENA
Publisher : International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)
ISBN 13 : 9292602500
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book Global Renewables Outlook: Energy Transformation 2050 written by International Renewable Energy Agency IRENA and published by International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This outlook highlights climate-safe investment options until 2050, policies for transition and specific regional challenges. It also explores options to eventually cut emissions to zero.

The New Agenda for Business - 2050 Vision

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book The New Agenda for Business - 2050 Vision written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given the megatrends of climate change, global population growth and urbanization, and given the best efforts of business, governments and society, Vision 2050 is a picture of the best possible outcome for the human population and the planet it lives on over the next four decades. [...] We would like to thank our colleagues in the member companies who worked so hard and skillfully in producing this report, and to thank the members of the WBCSD secretariat and the many consultants, experts and regional contributors who supported and advised us. [...] The difference is that the new solutions will be based on a global and local market place with "true values and costs", the "truth" being established by the limits of the planet and what it takes to live well and within them. [...] Turbulent Teens: Understanding and encouraging change through cooperation Must haves: • New measures of success and well-being at international, national and individual levels • A deeper understanding of the environmental realities of the world, leading to changes in how people relate to the planet and one another, and how they define successful and desirable lifestyles • The application of insigh. [...] Policy-makers and businesses create new policies, products and services based on a better understanding of the varieties of human behavior and the range of tools and messages needed to influence and drive lifestyle changes.

Africa 2050

Author : Theodore H. Ahlers
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780199450404
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book Africa 2050 written by Theodore H. Ahlers and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The findings and recommendations of the report are solely the responsibility of the Centennial Group International"--Title page verso.

Urban Futures

Author : Timothy J. Dixon
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447336305
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book Urban Futures written by Timothy J. Dixon and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2022 Urban Affairs Association Best Book Award. City visions represent shared, and often desirable, expectations about our urban futures. This book explores the history and evolution of city visions, placing them in the wider context of art, culture, science, foresight and urban theory. It highlights and critically reviews examples of city visions from around the world, contrasting their development and outlining the key benefits and challenges in planning such visions. The authors show how important it is to think about the future of cities in objective and strategic ways, engaging with a range of stakeholders – something more important than ever as we look to visions of a sustainable future beyond the COVID-19 crisis.