Centre for Australian Foresight

A Review of Government Foresight

Tagged With: Government Foresight, Social Foresight

August 17, 2013

17Aug

Conway, M., and Stewart, C.C., 2004, Creating and Sustaining Social Foresight in Australia: A Review of Government Foresight, Australian Foresight Institute, Swinburne University, Melbourne Australia. Introduction The use of futures approaches in government is not new. Governments around the world have been using a range of approaches since the mid 20th century. Most of this work has, however, been focused around science and technology foresight, rather than social foresight. Long-term societal well-being – that is, recognising responsibility for future generations – has not generally [...]

Sense-making and acting for des(c)ent futures

Tagged With: Descent Futures, Worldviews

August 17, 2013

17Aug

Floyd, J., 2012, Sense-making and acting for des(c)ent futures: Human and cultural pathways, Asia Pacific Foresight Conference 2012 closing keynote, Perth Australia. Introduction In the most straightforward terms, descent is the outcome when a given level of social complexity becomes too costly to maintain. Amongst those who study the historical wax and wane of human societies closely, in the more nuanced accounts it’s the process by which this descent outcome unfolds that is typically described as collapse. Unfortunately, collapse gets a bad rap in the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The Dynamics of Global Water Futures: Driving Forces 2011-2050

Tagged With: Scenarios, Sustainability, UNESCO, Water

August 17, 2013

17Aug

Kelleher, A., (various) in Cosgrove, C.E., and Cosgrove, W.J., 2012, Ethics, Society and Culture, The Dynamics of Global Water Futures: Driving Forces 2011-2050, Report on the findings of Phase One of the UNESCO-WWAP water scenarios project to 2050: 23-25, 37-38, 60-61, 68-75, 87-89 (synthese en Francaise), UNESCO Paris. Overview Because water is central to socio-economic development, insight into water futures (resource availability, reliability, and the evolution of demand in response to external pressures) provides a valuable tool for decisionmakers traditionally perceived as being outside [...]

Australia’s report to the Millennium Project on global challenges

Tagged With: Australian Futures, Millennium Project

August 17, 2013

17Aug

Kelleher, A., and Stewart, C., 2011 (eds), Australia’s report to the Millennium Project on global challenges, 2011 State of the Future Report, The Millennium Project, Washington DC. Executive Summary Over the past decade the Australasian Node of the Millennium Project has regularly made submissions to the annual State of The Future Report. In recent years, however, the professional futurist community in Australia in particular has become more vocal about the need for renewal in how we individually and collectively approach the future. The [...]

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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