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Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 1998-09-25
Total Pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9264163530
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book reviews the extraordinary promise of technological advances over the next twenty years or so, and assesses some of the key issues -- economic, social, environmental, ethical -- that decision-makers in government, business and society will face in the decades ahead.
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2001-04-27
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 926418936X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores some of the opportunities and risks - economic, social and technological - that decision-makers will have to address, and outlines what needs to be done to foster society's capacity to manage its future more flexibly and with broader participation of its citizens.
Author: Huijiong Wang
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-03-28
Total Pages: 728
ISBN-13: 9811070407
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book integrates the basic theories (GST and Parson’s AGIL framework), applying them to the components of social systems, state-run and business firms. China’s development experience offers a valuable case study that can provide readers deeper insights into this comparatively young discipline, and into China. Though the discipline of systems engineering and its application to hardware engineering system are well established, social systems engineering is an emerging discipline still being explored. This book may be the first English-language publication on this promising subject.
Author: Miller, Riel
Publisher: UNESCO Publishing
Published: 2018-07-09
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9231002686
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPeople are using the future to search for better ways to achieve sustainability, inclusiveness, prosperity, well-being and peace. In addition, the way the future is understood and used is changing in almost all domains, from social science to daily life. This book presents the results of significant research undertaken by UNESCO with a number of partners to detect and define the theory and practice of anticipation around the world today. It uses the concept of 'Futures Literacy' as a tool to define the understanding of anticipatory systems and processes - also known as the Discipline of Anticipation. This innovative title explores: " new topics such as Futures Literacy and the Discipline of Anticipation; " the evidence collected from over 30 Futures Literacy Laboratories and presented in 14 full case studies; " the need and opportunity for significant innovation in human decision-making systems. This book will be of great interest to scholars, researchers, policy-makers and students, as well as activists working on sustainability issues and innovation, future studies and anticipation studies.
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2003-04-24
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9789264101227
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the implications of newly developing risks such as hugely damaging hurricanes, new diseases, terrorist attacks, and disruptions to critical infrastructures.
Author: Riel Miller
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-04-27
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 1351047981
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPeople are using the future to search for better ways to achieve sustainability, inclusiveness, prosperity, well-being and peace. In addition, the way the future is understood and used is changing in almost all domains, from social science to daily life. This book presents the results of significant research undertaken by UNESCO with a number of partners to detect and define the theory and practice of anticipation around the world today. It uses the concept of ‘Futures Literacy’ as a tool to define the understanding of anticipatory systems and processes – also known as the Discipline of Anticipation. This innovative title explores: • new topics such as Futures Literacy and the Discipline of Anticipation; • the evidence collected from over 30 Futures Literacy Laboratories and presented in 14 full case studies; • the need and opportunity for significant innovation in human decision-making systems. This book will be of great interest to scholars, researchers, policy-makers and students, as well as activists working on sustainability issues and innovation, future studies and anticipation studies. The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781351047999, has been made available under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 IGO (CC-BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO) license.
Author: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Publisher: OECD
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9789264170292
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChapters include: "The emerging global knowledge economy" and "Working for world ecological sustainability".
Author: Nikos Passas
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 683
ISBN-13: 1351538500
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFinancial crime affects virtually all areas of public policy and is increasingly transnational. The essays in this volume address both the theoretical and policy issues arising from financial crime and feature a wide variety of case studies, and cover topics such as state revenue collection, criminal enterprises, money laundering, the use of new technologies and methods in financial crime, corruption, terrorism, proliferation of WMD, sanctions, third-world debt, procurement, telecommunications, cyberspace, the defense industry and intellectual property. Taken together, these essays form a must-read collection for scholars and students in law, finance and criminology.
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2000-08-11
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9264182470
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book asks some hard questions about our changing world, and examines the policy opportunities that need to be grasped if we are to foster sustainable social foundations for the 21st century.
Author: Francisco R. Sagasti
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2005-01-01
Total Pages: 171
ISBN-13: 1843769808
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSagasti, director of the think tank Agenda:PER in Lima, compares building science and technology capabilities in unindustrialized countries to the eternally futile task of Sisyphus in the Greek myth.
