Realistic Hope : : Facing Global Challenges /

Realistic Hope : : Facing Global Challenges / / ed. by Betty Sue Flowers, Angela Wilkinson.

We are running out of water, robots will take our jobs, we are eating ourselves to an early death, old age pension and health systems are bankrupting governments, and an immigration crisis is unravelling the European integration project. A growing number of nightmares, perfect storms, and global cat...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package 2016-2018
MitwirkendeR:
Bentham, Jeremy,
Clarke, Keith,
Dahlman, Carl J.,
Davis, Ged R.,
Flowers, Betty Sue,
Hajkowicz, Stefan,
Heffernan, Claire,
Helfgott, Ariella,
Jenny, Joëlle,
Jiménez, Viviana,
Juech, Claudia,
Kastrop, Christian,
Litovsky, Alejandro,
Mayer, Martin,
Naughtin, Claire,
Ogilvy, Jay,
Onike, Chukwudi,
O'Riordan, Tim,
Pauwels, Rudi,
Ringler, Verena,
Schwartz, Peter,
Smerkolj, Alenka,
Stalsberg Canelli, Alyssa,
Van der Elst, Kristel,
Vervoort, Joost,
Wilkinson, Angela,
York, Luke,
Šooš, Timotej,
HerausgeberIn:
Flowers, Betty Sue,
Wilkinson, Angela,
Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2018]
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword: Realising Hope
  • Introduction: Building Better Futures
  • 1. Making Globalisation Work
  • 2. Energy: A Better Life with a Healthy Planet
  • 3. Are Major Wars More Likely in the Future?
  • 4. The Future of Work
  • 5. Digital Technologies: Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining
  • 6. Cities to the Rescue: A New Scale for Dealing with Climate Change
  • 7. The Future of Global Poverty
  • 8. Transcending Boundaries: The Realistic Hope for Water
  • 9. Health Systems: Doomed to Fail or About to Be Saved by a Copernican Shift?
  • 10. Seeding the Future: Challenges to Global Food Systems
  • 11. The Great Livestock Trade-off : Food Production, Poverty Alleviation, and Climate Change
  • 12. Rethinking Economics for Global Challenges
  • 13. Leadership and the Future of Democratic Societies
  • 14. Prototyping the Future: A New Approach to Whole-of-Society Visioning
  • Five Principles of Realistic Hope
  • Epilogue: From the Eclipse of Utopia to the Restoration of Hope
  • Acknowledgements
  • Name Index
  • Subject Index
  • Endorsements for Realistic Hope

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