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Future generations: widespread changes in our living-together

01 Décembre

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Articles scientifiques

Available online 30 November 2012
Publication year: 2012
Source:Futures

When highlighting the needs of the future and of the present, sustainable development concepts often neglect how these needs are born: the relationship between future and present generations. This special issue contributes to this discussion with linking papers on futures generations in different interpretations and dimensions: emerging generations of futures theories, youth surveys, education and emerging powers.

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► In modern futures studies there are several emerging issues and areas of interests related to different generations–in a wide sense: ► New generations of futures studies in an overall aspect, where emerging paradigms of futures theories, their relations and organizations receive focus. ► Generations in time. This is the classical approach to generations where social layers by age and values create the basis of discussion. ► Relations in time. Intergenerational relations, like education, between ages and values are core issues of a historic era and the transition out of it. ► Generations in space. Visions and views of new generations from non-dominant societies are welcome.

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Health systems futures: The challenges of technology, prevention and insurance

01 Décembre

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Articles scientifiques

September 2012
Publication year: 2012
Source:Futures, Volume 44, Issue 7

This article argues that the futures of health systems depend on how countries address three wider challenges that include: (a) the adoption of health innovations and quality improvements, (b) responses to new non-communicable and preventable global diseases, as well as (c) adjusting financial models to current insurance constraints. Future trends point towards an increasing dependence on productive quality improvements, the personalisation of health care and the organisation of delivery and finance to take advantage of existing knowledge. Prevention, and disease avoidance, particularly that of non-communicable diseases, will aim to reduce pressure on “care components” of the health system whilst global control of communicable risks will become apparent. Finally, trends suggest an increase in patient participation and personalisation of insurance contracts will help to realign risk sharing with cost containment and financial sustainability. Other potential challenges such as ageing are regarded as second order issues to be addressed through these aforementioned future trends.

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Welfare futures: Balancing progress with sustainability

01 Décembre

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Articles scientifiques

September 2012
Publication year: 2012
Source:Futures, Volume 44, Issue 7

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Degrowth, the past, the future, and the human nature

01 Décembre

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Articles scientifiques

August 2012
Publication year: 2012
Source:Futures, Volume 44, Issue 6

In the last years, different sources point to a same message: industrial civilization has entered an overshoot mode, the natural limits to growth have been already surpassed. This frontier does not wait for us in the future; it already belongs to our past. If population and the economy are truly beyond the limits, then current visions and theories of social change would be deeply perturbed. If the development era is approaching its end, then many sociological theories on current societies will share the same destiny, sustainable development doctrines between them. It is worth to examine theories that explicitly look at the social world this way or that – at least – are not incompatible with it. Differences between these theories depend on sociological, psychological and anthropological questions; or, in other words, they depend on the human nature. Exploring the relationship between degrowth and the human nature gives rise to debates about selective pressures under conditions of scarcity (human evolution), historical and anthropological evidence, philosophy, and sociology (institutional resilience, utopies as whole society experiments…). As its conclusion, the argument accepts that an evolutionary perspective supports that there are some potentials for conscious social change even in a way-down era, but it does not justify the belief in a particular only line of history. This conclusion does not satisfy the desire of knowing the future; nevertheless it may be the only one possible. The future is not written. Neither in history nor in evolution; not even in the mixture of history and evolution that conforms us as inhabitants of the Earth.

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