This year the Parliament of Finland celebrated, in a great variety of ways, its 100-year history as an institution founded on equal and universal suffrage. The Committee for the Future decided that i

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In this paper, the implications of demographic processes for future changes in the demand and access to food are evaluated. Given the fact that population growth is a major influence on the consumpti

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From the abstract of the report: As the availability of important mineral deposits on Earth declines, including nuclear minerals, or as they are consumed at increasing cost, price-competitive resourc

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The paper presents a new approach of scenario technique according to GRIENITZ - especially with the use-cases future foresight and risk assessment. Under consideration of past and present, scenario