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List of contents
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
About the author
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.
Summary
The humanity faces a fundamentally different challenge - that of managing a planet and a global human civilization in ways that will sustain both indefinitely. This book suggests how to think about the future. It explores several possible worlds, each embodying a different vision of the future.
