Toward governance for future generations: how do we change course?

Futures

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 277-292

  Dahle, Kjell ^a  

^a Ideas Bank Foundation   (Norway)

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MAN-ENVIRONMENT RELATIONS; SOCIAL CHANGE; SUSTAINABILITY;

EID: 0032076825     PISSN: 00163287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-3287(98)00036-6     Document Type: Article

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2. This Commission was headed by the then Swedish Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson and former Secretary General of the British Commonwealth Sir Shridath Ramphal. The Commission was appointed as a result of talks between leading members of earlier UN commissions, among others Willy Brandt, Gro Harlem Brundtland and Julius Nyerere.
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4. The symposium was organized by Future Generations Alliance Foundation, Kyoto, and the Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. A book based on the symposium, edited by Jim Dator and Kim Tae-Chang, will be published soon by Adamantine, London.
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8. The paper is mainly based on chapter 2 of my new Norwegian book (op cit), of which the title means 'Experiments for Societal Change?'. The book was the result of a co-project between ProSus (Project for Research and Documentation for a Sustainable Society) and Ideas Bank Foundation. Both institutions arose out of the no longer existing Alternative Future Project (1985-95).
9. James Robertson (see Grassroots Fighters) has more faith in today's British establishment than was the case a decade or two ago. Today he fits into the 'Multifaceted Radicals' category (personal communication). On the other hand, authors like Erik Dammann and Rajni Kothari (see Multifaceted Radicals) have become more pessimistic over the years. Globalisation has created a setting they see as very difficult to change from within. As a result of this, their thoughts are now closer to the categories of 'Grassroots Fighters' and 'Patient Revolutionaries' than was the fact when they wrote their main strategic works (Dammann, E., Er den nødvendige endring mulig? In Ikke bare si det men gjøre det. Om bærekraftig utvikling, eds N. C. Stenseth and K. Hertzberg. Universitetsforlaget/Alternativ Framtid, Oslo, 1992;
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40. Thoughtful Multifaceted Radicals also include the late German philosopher Robert Havemann (Havemann, R., Morgen. Die Industrigesellschaft am Scheideweg. Kritik und reale Utopie. Halle/Leipzig, Munich, 1980, Mitteldeutscher Verlag, 1990) as well as the Norwegian teacher Hartvig Sætra (Sætra, H., Den okopolitiske sosialismen. Pax, Oslo, 1973).
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