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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Alternative Futures: Where are we going?
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Three Keys to the Future: What Might We Find There?
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A Choice of Paths: How Do We Get There?
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Back Matter
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About this book
During the middle and late 1960s, concern about the way the world might be going began to move out of the arena of academic debate amongst specialists, and became a topic of almost everyday interest to millions of people. Concern about mankind's disruption of the natural balance of 'the environment' brought the term 'ecology' into widespread use, though not always with the meaning to be found in the dictionary, and fears that world population might be growing so rapidly that very soon we would run out of food, resulting in mass starvation and a disastrous collapse of civilisation, helped to make books such as The Limits to Growth best sellers in the early 1970s. Today, quite rightly, decisions on long-term policy with widespread repercussions - most notably, those concerning nuclear energy planning - are a subject of equally widespread public discussion. But all too often such debate focuses on specific issues without the prob lems ever being related effectively to an overall vision of where the world is going and how it is going to get there. At the Science Policy Res~arch Unit, University of Sussex, a group working on studies of social and tech nological alternatives for the future has been contributing to 'the futures debate' for several years, cautiously (perhaps, in a sense, almost too cautiously!) developing a secure foundation for forecasting the way the world may develop.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Future Worlds
Authors: John Gribbin
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4007-2
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: The Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex, and John Gribbin 1979
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4684-4009-6Published: 19 March 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4684-4007-2Published: 06 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: 224
Topics: Ecology