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Month: June 2015

Nicholas Stern on ‘why are we waiting?’ and the barriers to greater climate change action

June 20, 2015 / Leave a Comment

The question of ‘why are we waiting?’ is one which Nicholas Stern addresses in his recent book Why Are We Waiting? The Logic, Urgency and Promise of Tackling Climate Change. It is a ridiculously big question for which there can be no single definitive answer, but the question is still worth asking and exploring. The … [Read more…]

Posted in: Climate change, PhD research Tagged: climate change

On the too little considered, but crucial, politics of prospective exercises

June 6, 2015 / Leave a Comment

This aim of this post is to develop an initial outline of some of the politics of prospective exercises – both ‘small p’ politics such as the exercising of power to influence such studies, the findings, and use of the outputs; and broader Politics related to how such activities are often conducted and used in … [Read more…]

Posted in: Anticipatory action, Futures practices, PhD research Tagged: Politics, prospective practices

The Population Bomb revisited – again

June 2, 2015 / Leave a Comment

It’s a bit too soon, arguably, to do a full postmortem on the book The Population Bomb and especially on related debates – given the global population continues to rapidly rise and is heading towards 9 or 9.5 billion by mid-century – but lately I spotted some interesting revisiting of the book, its impacts, and … [Read more…]

Posted in: Anticipatory action, PhD research, Sustainability science Tagged: Paul Erhlich, Scenarios, worst case scenarios

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