Issue 6 Part 1
In This Issue
Brief history of academies is presented, and the current role of academies is outlined. Contemporary world is global, interdependent and rapidly changing. These features are occurring for the first time in human history. All of these features are science and technology generated. Present time can be best described by Charles Dickens’ opening sentence of his novel ...
Lead Articles
Brief history of academies is presented, and the current role of academies is outlined. Contemporary world is global, interdependent and rapidly changing. These features are occurring for the first time in human history. All of these features are science and technology generated. ...
Institutional and Cultural Inertia
Today we are faced with multiple interrelated crises, for example the threat of catastrophic climate change or equally catastrophic thermonuclear war, and the threat of widespread famine ...
Priming Political Leaders for Fateful Choices
This paper presents nine propositions: (1) humanity is cascading through a rupture in its history into an epoch of “anthropo-transmutation”; ...
This article is based on a keynote address that the author gave in Montgomery, Alabama, last year, celebrating the anniversary of the famous Civil rights ...
Donato Kiniger-Passigli & Anna Biondi
A people-centred, preventive approach to disaster risk
As natural disasters increase and intensify around the world, their consequences are felt most acutely in those countries less equipped to cope with them ...