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Sense making and acting for descent futures: human and cultural pathways

July 16, 2015
16Jul
Floyd, Joshua. 2014. “Sense-making and acting for descent futures: human and cultural pathways.” Foresight 16(6):587-607. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/FS-11-2013-0061. Article for special issue of Foresight titled Descent pathways. Download the full article pdf. Purpose – The article makes the case for continued opportunity for high levels of human well-being under descent conditions characterised by declining economic throughput and socio-political complexity. Design/methodology/approach – Relationships between assumptions about human well-being formed within a modern industrial context, the guiding narratives attending these, and the broader cultural [...]
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Descent pathways: guest editorial

July 16, 2015
16Jul
Floyd, J. and Slaughter, R., 2014, Descent pathways, Foresight vol. 16, no. 6, pp. 485-495. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/FS-07-2014-0049. Guest editorial for special issue of Foresight titled Descent pathways. Download the full article pdf. Purpose – The special issue has two main purposes. The first is to highlight the need for wider understanding of the ‘civilisational challenge’ facing humanity as it encounters and then exceeds significant limits to growth. The second is to present material that provides grounds for developing effective responses. [...]
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Managing complexity in Australian urban water governance: Transitioning Sydney to a water sensitive city

Tagged With: City Planning, Complexity, Sustainability, Water
July 2, 2014
02Jul
Floyd, J., Iaquinto, B., Ison, R., & Collins, K., 2014, Managing complexity in Australian urban water governance: Transitioning Sydney to a water sensitive city, Futures, Volume 61, 2014, Pages 1-12. Abstract Recognising Australia’s need for water management that better supports urban populations facing increasing socio-ecological challenges, the study on which this article is based brought together professionals from Sydney’s water sector to understand what they believe is entailed in transitioning Sydney to a water sensitive city. Participants called for new institutional arrangements requiring collaboration [...]
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Energy, complexity and interior development in civilisational renewal

Tagged With: Complexity, Energy, Sustainability
August 18, 2013
18Aug
Floyd, J., 2013, Energy, complexity and interior development in civilisational renewal, On The Horizon, vol. 21, no. 3, Special Issue: Overshoot and Collapse: A Wake Up Call, Guest Edited by Dennis R. Morgan. Visit the publisher’s site for the article. Purpose – Slaughter has proposed futures in which interior human development matches that of technological development as the best prospect for avoiding catastrophic collapse through overshoot of the Earth’s carrying capacity. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the importance of the [...]
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Transforming Global Governance for a Socially Sustainable World

Tagged With: Global Governance, Sustainability
August 17, 2013
17Aug
Kelleher, A., 2012, Transforming Global Governance for a Socially Sustainable World, Social Alternatives, 31(4)13-17. ABSTRACT The cover design concept for this issue theme, ‘The Sustainability Prism: Exploration in sustainability and language’, is the prism. The design utilizes chroma-depth printing technologies to produce a 3D space using colours of the prism. This printing method offsets red (the longest wavelength) to the forefront and violet light (the shortest wavelength) to the background. This makes red objects appear to float in the air whilst blue and [...]
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How Can Everyone Have Sufficient Clean Water Without Conflict?

Tagged With: Sustainability, Water
August 17, 2013
17Aug
Kelleher, A., 2012, How Can Everyone Have Sufficient Clean Water Without Conflict? Journal of Futures Studies 16(4): 3-20.  Abstract This article provides a statistical update of Australia’s water situation including data on usage, consumption, and volume supplied, and some recent developments in water policy, science and technology that might assist in managing the nation’s future water supply challenges. The prevailing 20th century water paradigm is then contrasted with some emerging perspectives that might herald a shift in Australian thinking about water, a shift that could [...]
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Towards a Planetary Conversation?

Tagged With: Complexity, Global Governance
August 17, 2013
17Aug
Kelleher, A., 2011, Towards a Planetary Conversation? Journal of Futures Studies 16(2):107-110. I congratulate Halal and Marien for initiating this symposium: self-confessed ‘two white American men’ with similar worldviews. As the conversation extends outwards from its original two authors I look forward to seeing greater diversity in the literature reviewed; a planetary conversation on the Megacrisis. The Butterflies of Global Transformation Halal and Marien have emphasised the interconnectedness of the challenges that face humanity in the 21st century. A ‘Perfect Storm’ of ‘Wicked Complexity’. I [...]
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Global Governance: from Neoliberalism to a Planetary Civilisation

Tagged With: Global Governance
August 17, 2013
17Aug
Kelleher, A., 2009, Global Governance: from Neoliberalism to a Planetary Civilisation, Social Alternatives, 28(2):42-47.   ABSTRACT In 2009 the global economic crisis and the looming threat of climate change demonstrate how much we live in an era of global crises that require global action. States can no longer isolate themselves. Actions taken in one state regularly affect many others. Throughout 2009 the newly anointed G20 group of leaders and the International Monetary Fund have sought solutions to the global economic crisis that spread [...]
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