A design for future-oriented government

Futures

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 413-431

  Tonn, Bruce ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 0010396742     PISSN: 00163287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0016-3287(96)00017-1     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. A Gore, 'The deadly age of cynicism', The Aspen Institute Quarterly, 6(4), 1994, pages 7-21.
2. E B Weiss, In Fairness to Future Generations: International Law, Common Patrimony and Intergenerational Equity (New York, USA, Transnational Publications Inc, 1989).
3. It is more accurate to say that the ideas represent a retrofit to the current US political system.
4. See 'Principles on General Rights and Obligations', Preparatory Committee for the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, Working Group III, Fourth Session (New York, 2 March-3 April 1992); A/CONF.151PC/WG.III/L.8/Rev.1/ADD2.21 February 1992.
5. These very mimimal requirements were outlined to me by a local politician from East Tennessee.
6. My apologies to politicians who believe they do bring, and in many cases indeed are successful in bringing, wisdom to the political process.
7. The characteristics of wisdom listed here represent a compilation of views taken from R Sternberg (editor), Widsom: Its Nature, Origins, and Development (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1990).
8. T Kheel, 'Future generations and the next 50 years'. Thinking About Future Generations (Kyoto, Japan, Institute for the integrated Study of Future Generations, 1994), pages 161-168.
9. B Tonn and D Feldman, 'Non-spatial government', Futures, 27(1), February 1995, pages 11-36.
10. B Tonn, 'Future generations, environmental ethics, and global environmental change', T C Kim and J Dator (editors), in Creating a New History for Future Generations, (Kyoto, Japan, Institute for the Integrated Studdy of Future Generations, 1994), pages 141-158.
11. B Tonn, 'The court of generations: a proposed amendment to the US constitution', Futures, June 1991, pages 482-498.
12. Ronald Heifetz calls this process adaptive work. See R Heifetz, Leadership Without Easy Answers (Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1994).
13. For a complete discussion of such problems, see D Kahnman, P Slovic, and A Tversky (editors), Judgement Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1982).
14. K Lehrer and C Wagner, Rational Consensus in Science and Society (Dordrecht, D Reidel Publishing Company, 1981).
15. H Sackman, Delphi Critique (Lexington, MA, Lexington Books, 1975).
16. S Brams and P Fishburn, Approval Voting (Boston, MA, Birkhauser, 1983).
17. A Toffler and H Toffler, Creating a New Civilization: The Politics of the Third Wave (Atlanta, GA, Turner Publishing, 1994).
18. B Tonn, 'Future generations, environmental ethics, and global environmental change', T C Kim and J Dator (editors), in Creating a New History for Future Generations, (Kyoto, Japan, Institute for the Integrated Study of Future Generations, 1994), pages 141-158.
19. For a very interesting discussion about the maturation of societies, see Duane Elgin, Awakening Earth: Exploring the Evolution of Human Culture and Consciousness (New York, USA, William Morrow and Co, 1993).
20. B Tonn and D Feldman, 'Non-spatial government', Futures, 27(1), February 1995, pages 11-36.