Allen Hammond

Which World

Global Destinies, Regional Choices - Scenarios for the 21st Century

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 626g
• ISBN-13: 9781853835827
• ISBN-10: 185383582X
• Artikelnr.: 37192378

Autorenporträt

Allen Hammond is a senior scientist and director of strategic analysis at the World Resources Institute, a non-partisan policy research center based in Washington, DC. He received his PhD in applied mathematics from Harvard University, and he has published nine books and many scientific articles, as well as numerous articles and columns in newspapers and popular magazines.

Inhaltsangabe

PART I. LOOKING AHEAD Chapter 1 Thinking About the Future Chapter 2 The
Power of Scenarios PART II. THREE WORLD VIEWS Chapter 3 Market World: A New
Golden Age of Prosperity? Chapter 4 Fortress World: Instability and
Violence? Chapter 5 Transformed World: Changing the Human Endeavor? PART
III. TRENDS THAT SHAPE OUR FUTURE Chapter 6 Critical Trends: Demographic,
Economic, and Technological Chapter 7 Critical Environmental Trends Chapter
8 Critical Security Trends Chapter 9 Critical Social and Political Trends
PART IV. REGIONAL CHOICES Chapter 10 Latin America: Equitable Growth or
Instability? Chapter 11 China and Southeast Asia: Can the Asian Miracle
Continue? Chapter 12 India: A Second Independence? Chapter 13 Sub-Saharan
Africa: Transformation or Tragedy? Chapter 14 North Africa and the Middle
East: Autocracy Forever? Chapter 15 Russia and Eastern Europe: Transition
to What? Chapter 16 North America, Europe, and Japan: Leadership or
Stagnation? PART V. GLOBAL DESTINIES Chapter 17 Choosing Our Future Which
World? On-line: A Hyper-Forum on the Future