Shaping the next one hundred years

"The checkered history of predicting the future--e.g., "Man will never fly"--Has dissuaded policymakers from considering the long-term effects of decisions. New analytic methods, enabled by modern computers, transform our ability to reason about the future. The authors here demonstrate a quantitative approach to long-term policy analysis (LTPA). Robust methods enable decisionmakers to examine a vast range of futures and design adaptive strategies to be robust across them. Using sustainable development as an example, the authors discuss how these methods apply to LTPA and a wide range of decisionmaking under conditions of deep uncertainty."

First sentence: Our world confronts rapid and potentially profound transitions driven by social, economic, environmental, and technological change.

Year

2003

Language

English

Publisher

RAND Corporation

Editions

1

Pages

186

ISBN

9780833032751

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