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“You cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do is be like a farmer, create the conditions under which it will begin to flourish."
Ken Robinson - Author, speaker, and international advisor on education in the arts to government, non-profits, education, and arts bodies.
In January, Foresight For Development turns the spotlight on human development futures.
Featured in Bibliozone this month is a collection of publications related to Human Development, Humanity, Human Evolution / Evolutionary development, Human Well-being, Sustainable Lifestyles, Existential risks, Society, Demography. The selection of documents is partial and based on accessible material. Therefore, we would like to invite everyone to supplement our library with additional materials.
From our FFD library:
Here are the publications available in our library:
- Human Development
- Humanity
- Human Evolution / Evolutionary development
- Human Well-being
- Sustainable Lifestyles
- Existential Risks
- Society
- Demography
- Also see...
Human Development
- 2015 and Beyond: Perspectives on Global Development
- Africa Human Development Report 2012: Towards a Food Secure Future
- Egypt Human Development Report 2010: Youth in Egypt
- Emerging Demographic Patterns across the Mediterranean and their Implications for Migration through 2030
- Demography and Human Development: Education and Population Projections
- Development-Oriented Policies and Alternative Human Development Paths
- Ghana Human Development Report 2007: Towards a More Inclusive Society
- Human Development assessment through the Human-Scale Development approach: integrating different perspectives in the contribution to a Sustainable Human Development Theory
- Human Development in Africa: A Long-Run Perspective
- Human Development Indicators and Thematic Tables
- Human Development Report 2013 - The Rise of the South: Human Progress in a Diverse World
- Human Development Report 2011 - Sustainability and Equity: A Better Future for All
- Human Development Report 2010 - The Real Wealth of Nations: Pathways to Human Development
- Human Development Report 2009 - Overcoming barriers: Human mobility and development
- Human Development Report 2007/8 - Fighting climate change: Human solidarity in a divided world
- Human Development Report 2006 - Beyond scarcity: Power, poverty and the global water crisis
- Human Development Report 2005 - International cooperation at a crossroads: Aid, trade and security in an unequal world
- Joburg Human Development Strategy: Joburg's commitment to the poor
- Kenya Human Development Report 2009: Youth and Human Development: Tapping the Untapped Resource
- Liberia National Human Development Report 2010
- Linking Present and Future Choices: Sustainability and the measurement of human development
- Modelling human development and disease: The role of animals, stem cells, and future perspectives
- Mozambique Human Development Report 2008: The Role of Information Communication Technologies in Achieving the Millenium Development Goals
- Nigeria Human Development Report 2008-2009: Achieving growth with equity
- Patterns of Potential Human Progress (PPHP)
- Regional Integration and Human Development: A Pathway for Africa
- Rwanda Human Development Report 2007: Turning Vision 2020 into Reality
- Sierra Leone Human Development Report 2007: Empowering Local Government for Sustainable Development and Poverty Reduction
- Somalia Human Development Report 2012: Empowering Youth for Peace and Development
- Some Trends and Perspectives on Globalization, Economic Growth, Equality, and Development
- Swaziland Human Development Report 2008: HIV and AIDS and Culture
- The Bioecological Model of Human Development
- The Future Can't Wait: Over-the-Horizon Views on Development
- The Future is Not Good Enough: Business As Usual After 2015
- Uganda Human Development Report 2007: Rediscovering Agriculture for Human Development
- Zambia Human Development Report 2011: Service Delivery for Sustainable Human Development
Humanity
- 7 Best-Case Scenarios for the Future of Humanity
- 8 Exponential Trends That Will Shape Humanity: Century of the City State
- 8 Exponential Trends That Will Shape Humanity Part 2 - Drop Out Now: The Economics of Unschooling
- 8 Exponential Trends That Will Shape Humanity Part 3 - Hacking Healthcare: The Rise of the Citizen Doctor
- 8 Exponential Trends That Will Shape Humanity Part 4 - Prepare for Hyper-Local Manufacturing: The Rise of 3D Printing
- 8 Exponential Trends That Will Shape Humanity Part 5 - Stronger, Faster, Better, Smarter: Quantified Everywhere
- 8 Exponential Trends That Will Shape Humanity Part 6 - Conscious Brands: How Businesses Can Make the World a Better Place
- 8 Exponential Trends That Will Shape Humanity Part 7 - Time to Get Dirty: Why the Ancient Wisdom of Microbes is the Future of Health
- A Future Timeline of Humanity and the Universe
- Contours of the Possible: Global Scenarios and Great Transitions
- Great Transition: The Promise and Lure of the Times Ahead
- Great Transition Values: Present Attitudes, Future Changes
- Humanity 2211: amazing future predicted for next 200 years
- Humanity's Future
- Human Extinction: Not the Worst Case Scenario
- Human Knowledge: Foundations and Limits
- Millennium 3000 Scenarios - The future of humanity in the next 1000 years
- Natural-Born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies, and the Future of Human Intelligence
- Our Biopolitical Future: Four Scenarios
- The Future of Humanity
- The Great Transition Today: A Report from the Future
- The Role of Well-being in a Great Transition
- Triple Threats for the Human Future: Will Civilization Arrive?
- What Future Expects Humanity After the Demographic Transition Time?
- Where Will We Be in 2050? Scenario I: A World in Ruins
- Where Will We Be in 2050? Scenario II: Beauty and Harmony
Human Evolution / Evolutionary development
- Articles on The Future of Human Evolution
- Degrowth, the past, the future, and the human nature
- Evolutionary Genetics: Evolution with Foresight
- Evolution of the Human Lifespan, Past, Present, and Future: Phases in the Evolution of Human Life Expectancy in Relation to the Inflammatory Load
- Foresight in cultural evolution
- Future Evolution of the Human Brain
- FUTURE HUMANS: Four Ways We May, or May Not, Evolve
- Human Evolution: Retrodictions and Predictions
- The Wisdom of Nature: An Evolutionary Heuristic for Human Enhancement
- The Evolution of Human Ultra-sociality
- The Future of Human Evolution
- The Future of Human Evolution
- The Future of Human Evolution - Presentation
- The Future of Human Evolution Website
- The Human Race Will Come To An End. What's Next?
- Thoughts on the future of human evolution
Human Well-being
- Human Health, Well-Being, and Global Ecological Scenarios
- Human Well-being across Scenarios
- Linking Future Ecosystem Services and Future Human Well-being
- Resilience and Pluralism: Ecosystems and Society in a Great Transition
- Scenarios of sustainable well-being
Sustainable Lifestyles
- 2052: A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years
- Scenarios for Sustainable Lifestyles 2050: From Global Champions to Local Loops
- Sustainable Communities and the Great Transition
Existential Risks
- Existential Risks: Analyzing Human Extinction Scenarios and Related Hazards
- Existential Risk Prevention as Global Priority
Society
- Dawn of the Cosmopolitan: The Hope of a Global Citizens Movement
- Sustainable Society Index SSI-2012
- Sustainable Society Index SSI-2010
- What Will Our Society Look Like in 2050?
- World Lines: Pathways, Pivots and the Global Future
Demography
- Africa's Demographic Trends
- How Demographic Trends Will Change the World Through 2050
- Population Control and Reproductive Rights: Mutual Coercion, Decreased Consumption, Women’s Empowerment, or Human Extinction?
- Population Dynamics and Human Development Indices in Selected African Countries: Trends and Levels
- The Human Core of the SSPs: Population Scenarios by Age, Sex and Level of Education for all Countries to 2100
- World Population to 2300
Also see...
- Futures studies and the human sciences: the case for normative scenarios
- Human-Centred Design: sustainable ideas and scenarios for the development of projects and products based on knowledge and human abilities
- Intellectual Property and Human Development - Current Trends and Future Scenarios
- The Future of Human Nature: A symposium on the promises and challenges of the revolutions in genomics and computer science
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