Deep futures
Subtitle: our prospects for survival
By: Doug Cocks
Publisher: University of New South Wales Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Kensington, N.S.W
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780585484853
Subjects: Forecasting; Future Studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE; Electronic books; Twenty-first century; Social evolution; Forecasts
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 304-320) and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Part 1: Futures we have glimpsed; title: Ch. 1. A difficult century; title: Ch. 2. Deep futures; title: Part 2: Understanding the task; title: Ch. 3. What is the question?; title: Ch. 4. Understanding how societies change over time; title: Part 3: Taking charge; title: Ch. 5. A strategy for managing the deep future; title: Ch. 6. Guidelines I: nursing the world through endless change; title: Ch. 7. Guidelines II: learning forever; title: Ch. 8. Guidelines III: working on perennial issues; title: Ch. 9. Stories to live by; title: App. Basic properties of dissipative (energy-degrading) systems.