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Sustainable development is introduced in the article as an ethos and post-modern idea of progress, i.e. an ideal for betterment of humankind. A sine qua non for the ideal is that ecological sustainability is made a quality ...

This article considers different approaches of Futures Studies to issues and favours the "vision" approach. It also looks at the role of Futures Studies in social sciences in general. It examines trends in the issue of ...

The study describes a futures-oriented leadership process called visionary management as developed in the Finland Futures Research Centre and experienced successfully with several medium-sized companies in the 1990s. It ...

Why is it that we have started to question the sustainability of consumption, invention and innovation, economy, nation-states, whole systems and even the globe, in short of almost everything? What are the new paradigms, ...

Decomposition approach is a way to analyse a society and its structural changes. It can be applied in the analyses of energy, material, labour and capital use. Linking the decomposition analyses to sustainability remarkably ...

Valtioneuvosto antoi eduskunnalle tulevaisuuselontekonsa kahdessa osassa: Syksyllä 1996 ilmestynyt Suomi ja Euroopan tulevaisuus tarkasteli Euroopan tulevaisuutta ja Suomen asemaa siinä. Keväällä 1997 annettu toinen osa ...

Kirjoitus perustuu ranskalaisen Landrieu-Zémorin tutkimukseen Une méthode d’analyse prospective (Landrieu-Zémor et al.), sekä eräisiin muihin ranskalaisiin kirjoituksiin, joissa kuvataan menettelytapaa, jota käytettiin ...

The Andean region is exceptionally rich in biodiversity, harbouring an important centre of domestication of global food crops, such as potato, quinoa, corn, peanut and tomato. Such biodiversity provides a great potential ...

In the article fundamental principles of sustainable development are discussed first from general points of view. Sustainable development is seen as a late-modern idea of progress, i.e. an ethos for improvement of human ...

The world is in a transient period of development. The term transient in this occasion means that a more or less stable world state or development stage prevailing is been destabilized and fluctuating relatively rapidly ...