Title Deep futures : our prospects for survival / Doug Cocks

Published Kensington, N.S.W. : University of New South Wales Press, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 332 pages) Contents Part 1: Futures we have glimpsed -- Ch. 1. A difficult century -- Ch. 2. Deep futures -- Part 2: Understanding the task -- Ch. 3. What is the question? -- Ch. 4. Understanding how societies change over time -- Part 3: Taking charge -- Ch. 5. A strategy for managing the deep future -- Ch. 6. Guidelines I: nursing the world through endless change -- Ch. 7. Guidelines II: learning forever -- Ch. 8. Guidelines III: working on perennial issues -- Ch. 9. Stories to live by -- App. Basic properties of dissipative (energy-degrading) systems Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 304-320) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Social evolution. Forecasting. Twenty-first century -- Forecasts. Cultural Evolution Forecasting SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Future Studies. Forecasting Social evolution Twenty-first century Genre/Form Forecasts Form Electronic book ISBN 0585484856 9780585484853

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