July 27-29, 2012 • Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel
Preconference Courses: July 26-27, 2012 • Professional Members’ Forum: July 30, 2012
Communities of the Future
Stephen Aguilar-Millan is director of research at the European Futures Observatory; member of the World Future Society Global Advisory Council; former board member of the Association of Professional Futurists; and president of the WFS Europe Chapter, Ipswich, Suffolk, United Kingdom
In the decade after this one, many believe that the impacts of peak oil and climate change will start to be felt. Global population growth will also have an effect, stretching our food and water resources towards their limits. We have it in our capacity to prepare for this future and to mitigate some of the possible negative effects.
That is the theme of this session, whose purpose is to outline how a community based in rural England might respond to these challenges and to highlight some of the policy decisions that could be implemented today to give us a better tomorrow.
Drawing upon the WFS Europe Chapter’s 2011-12 program, this session will outline a broad sketch of how things might develop to 2030, how the impacts of change were mapped out in a set of scenarios, and what actions are currently being taken in order to foster resilience for tomorrow.
Highlights
Participants will leave the session with an understanding of how to put current events into longer-term perspective to see how events might unfold over the next two decades.
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