Zedníčková, Zdeňka Němcová
Published in
Architecture Papers of the Faculty of Architecture and Design STU
The article describes the role of thinking about the future and its importance in architectural and urban education. The first part deals with the scientific discipline of futurology and the possibilities of its use in architectural and urban practice. It covers topics that futurology makes available to architecture and their influence on the urban...
Lambraki, Irene Anna Cousins, Melanie Graells, Tiscar Léger, Anaïs Abdelrahman, Sara Desbois, Andrew P. Gallagher, Rose Staaf Larsson, Birgitta Mattson, Bengt Henriksson, Patrik
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Published in
Frontiers in Public Health
Background Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a growing global crisis with long-term and unpredictable health, social and economic impacts, with which climate change is likely to interact. Understanding how to govern AMR amidst evolving climatic changes is critical. Scenario planning offers a suitable approach. By envisioning alternative futures, st...
Boissonneault, Michaël Wieke de Jong, Petra
Published in
Frontiers in Human Dynamics
Scenario planning has been gaining popularity during the last decade as a tool for exploring how international migration flows might be affected by changing future circumstances. Using this technique, scholars have developed narratives that describe how flows might change depending on different developments in two of their most impactful and uncert...
Derbyshire, James Feduzi, Alberto Runde, Jochen
Funder: SAMS/BAM Research and Capacity Building Grant Scheme / Funder: Society for the Advancement of Management Studies (SAMS) / Funder: British Academy of Management (BAM); Id: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100012682 / Scenario planning is a tool used to formulate contingent but potentially impactful futures to aid strategic decision‐making. A cruci...
gaspars-wieloch, helena
Goal programming (GP) is applied to the discrete and continuous version of multi-criteria optimization. Recently, some essential analogies between multi-criteria decision making under certainty (M-DMC) and scenario-based one-criterion decision making under uncertainty (1-DMU) have been revealed in the literature. The aforementioned similarities all...
Jafari, H. Sheikhbardsiri, H. Mohammadi, M.
Published in
Annals of Burns and Fire Disasters
Fire disasters are one of the most common technological disasters in Iran. These disasters have killed many people and resulted in significant economic loss. The “Plasco” building fire in 2017 is one example of these catastrophic disasters, when most of Iran was affected by its tragic news. Regarding the increasing number of risk factors for fire d...
Derbyshire, James
Published in
Risk analysis : an official publication of the Society for Risk Analysis
A striking feature of COVID-19 is many countries' low level of preparedness for it, despite pandemics being a known threat. This raises a question as to the reasons for this underpreparedness. While preparedness should have better reflected pandemics' long-run inevitability and potentially catastrophic impact, government-planning horizons are short...
Bremner, Duncan James Ansari, Imran Shafique MacDougall, Jennifer Hussain, Sajjad Ma, Mingda Ponciano, Joao Liu, Xingang Gamage, Kelum A. A. Abbas, Hasan Imran, Muhammad Ali
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Frontiers in Education
This paper takes a retrospective view of the year 2020, with a focus on how Higher Education policy development was undertaken on a Transnational Education (TNE) program between the University of Glasgow (UofG) and the University of Electronics, Science and Technology in Chengdu (UESTC), China in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It explores the a...
Lüchau, Carlos (author)
The lack of effective place-making strategies to transform industrial urban areas into mixed-use areas, and the limited knowledge of how manufacturers interact with other actors, have exposed the vulnerability to future challenges of these redevelopment processes. Therefore, this research aims to identify directions of place-making strategies to ov...
Chiappe, Fabrizio (author)
At present, almost two years after the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the detrimental effects that this situation created on economic and social environments of cities are still fresh and far from being over. As these issues had a particular impact on tourism around the world, government and businesses in tourist-driven cities lost their main ...
