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Keys to the 21st century/ edited by Jerome Binde.

Contributor(s): Binde, JeromeMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: Paris: UNESCO Publishing, 2001Description: xvi, 395p. ; 24 cmISBN: 9789231036460Subject(s): Social ethics -- Forecasting | Twenty-first century -- Forecasts | Social history -- 21st centuryDDC classification: 303.490905

Contents:

Introduction / Jerome Binde -- Foresight and Uncertainty: What Future for the Future? -- A Plurality of Futures? -- The Arrow of Time and the End of Certainty / Ilya Prigogine -- What Future for the Future? -- The Nature of the Future / Hugues de Jouvenel -- The Rehabilitation of Futurology / Colin Blackman -- An African Fable / Souleymane Bachir Diagne -- An Ethno-technological Analysis of the Interactions between Technology and Society / Thierry Gaudin -- Inventing the Future / Pentti Malaska -- Futurology in Action / Eleonora Masini Barbieri -- The Future in Brief ... / Peter Mettler -- The Determinants of Futurology / Jesus Moneo -- The End of Francis Bacon's Programme? / Francisco Sagasti -- Futurology and Global Dialogue / Tony Stevenson -- Futurology: A Self-Criticism / Kimon Valaskakis -- The Future of the Species and the Future of the Planet: Towards a Natural Contract? -- What Future for the Human Species? -- Stephen Jay Gould -- Edgar Morin -- Population: From Explosion to Implosion? -- Population and Migration Patterns in the Twenty-First Century / Herve Le Bras -- Forecasting the Ageing of Populations: China and International Comparisons / Zeng Yi -- Biotechnologies: Towards a Brave New World? -- Axel Kahn -- M.G.K. Menon -- Jeremy Rifkin -- What Will We Suffer from in the Twenty-First Century? -- Luc Montagnier -- David Heymann -- Chemical Pollution and Invisible Pollution -- Chemical Pollution and Invisible Pollution: Prospects and Possible Responses / Mohamed Larbi Bouguerra.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section	303.490905 BIN/K (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		P13279

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Introduction / Jerome Binde --
Foresight and Uncertainty: What Future for the Future? --
A Plurality of Futures? --
The Arrow of Time and the End of Certainty / Ilya Prigogine --
What Future for the Future? --
The Nature of the Future / Hugues de Jouvenel --
The Rehabilitation of Futurology / Colin Blackman --
An African Fable / Souleymane Bachir Diagne --
An Ethno-technological Analysis of the Interactions between Technology and Society / Thierry Gaudin --
Inventing the Future / Pentti Malaska --
Futurology in Action / Eleonora Masini Barbieri --
The Future in Brief ... / Peter Mettler --
The Determinants of Futurology / Jesus Moneo --
The End of Francis Bacon's Programme? / Francisco Sagasti --
Futurology and Global Dialogue / Tony Stevenson --
Futurology: A Self-Criticism / Kimon Valaskakis --
The Future of the Species and the Future of the Planet: Towards a Natural Contract? --
What Future for the Human Species? --
Stephen Jay Gould --
Edgar Morin --
Population: From Explosion to Implosion? --
Population and Migration Patterns in the Twenty-First Century / Herve Le Bras --
Forecasting the Ageing of Populations: China and International Comparisons / Zeng Yi --
Biotechnologies: Towards a Brave New World? --
Axel Kahn --
M.G.K. Menon --
Jeremy Rifkin --
What Will We Suffer from in the Twenty-First Century? --
Luc Montagnier --
David Heymann --
Chemical Pollution and Invisible Pollution --
Chemical Pollution and Invisible Pollution: Prospects and Possible Responses / Mohamed Larbi Bouguerra.

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