... form of very long‐term participative strategic planning. It is impossible to directly link the increasing uncertainties in the global environment and the spread of foresight. However, it is possible to compare the history of foresight in relation to the history of globalization through several main...

...Patrick van der Duin Purpose The purpose of this paper is to illustrate how Dutch society is dealing with its history and why the past is a bad guide to the future. Design/methodology/approach The paper is a desk research based on newspaper articles and other literature...

...Jacques Richardson © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 --> Politics History France A French adage is reculer pour mieux sauter (step back to leap ahead better), and this detailed volume shows how learning from the political past should improve democratic governance...

...Jacques Richardson Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe and explains the development of the evolving mental phenomenon of alternative history. Design/methodology/approach The article analyzes the role of the fiction known as the “What if?” school of speculation about...

... will be (as indeed they have been) fiercely contested. Dombrowsky (2003) summarizes the history and the status of treaty negotiations concerning water rights between Jordan, the Palestinian Authority, and Israel. Diplomacy has produced some marginal water benefits for Jordan, but the payoff to the Palestinians has...

... such phenomena. Although no such law exists, there exist indeed the unwanted effects – and sometimes on a grand scale, too often a bane of humankind. Jacques Richardson can be contacted at: jaq.richard@noos.fr © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Strategic planning History...

... History To be understood, a thing must first be seen as it really is (Sherwin Nuland (2000) , on Leonardo's strategy). There can be no future strategy without first a theory (Thierry de Montbrial [1]). Leonardo was born at Vinci (Italy) in 1452 and died in 1519 at the Clos Lucé, Amboise...

... Publishing Limited 2005 Energy management Nuclear power History For more than 40 years, the nuclear power industry has faced two major obstacles: operating competitively in a hydrocarbon‐dominated energy market and countering anti‐nuclear activist concerns. The nuclear power debate has...

...Daniel Warner As after the Second World War, the USA today plays a dominant role in the world following the end of the Cold War. Since 1989, and up to this day, two main theories of history's unfolding, the circular view and the linear view, clash as far as the future role and position of the USA...

...Irving H. Buchen Megatrends are historical nexuses which gather and focus both obvious and subtle sub‐trends as a contribution to the history of future ideas. A substantive candidate of the twenty‐first century is “convergence”. That pursuit of “the unity of all knowledge” involves the integration...

...Herbert I. London Popular fearmongers never let the facts ruin a good story, even though, this article reflects, history has proven the pessimists wrong. Pessimistic predictions in a range of areas including land, population, energy, economy and technology are deflated and a lively selection...

... to the values of the hunting and food‐gathering society, and companies good at this will be successful. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Information industry History Development Camford foresight/ vol.01, no.03, jun.99 th e jou rn al of futu res stu dies, strateg ic th inkin g an d p olicy © 1999 Cam ford...

... the time frame, and the concept of history, sustainability mandates that human intelligence not abdicate its responsibilities by attempting to defer to a static, mythic, external force. What is important in a world where a clock “ticks” once a century, or where a diorama in the museum of the future has...

..., resulting in positive social transformations. Change Ephemera History © MCB UP Limited 1999 Camford foresight/ vol.01, no.02, apr.99 th e jou rn al of futu res stu dies, strateg ic th inkin g an d p olicy © 1999 Cam ford Publishing Ltd .143 14 63 -6 68 9/ 99 /0 20 14 3 -11 article: the zone...