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This book contains a collection of projects and scenarios dealing with new risks from emerging technologies, future peace keeping operations, and water distribution issues by combining analysis with dialogue. Special attention is paid to the methodology of narrative scenarios, and the role of imagination in the generation of these scenarios. Appearing as short stories, narrative scenarios include a great amount of explicit and implicit knowledge and they need story telling skills to become consistent, coherent as well as compelling and convincing pictures of the future.
As scientists and policymakers try to come to grips with problems such as climate change and risks to biodiversity, they turn more and more frequently to the method of scenario analysis to better understand the future of these problems. Over the last few years scenario analysis has become one of the key tools for bridging environmental science and policy. This is the first book to sum up the current practice of environmental scenario analysis and to propose directions for improving its quality and effectiveness. Chapters are written by an international group of distinguished scenario experts and provide an excellent starting basis for first-time scenario practitioners, as well as a collection of new ideas on improving scenario practice for experienced scenario analysts.* Comprehensive coverage and overview on environmental scenario analysis from a team of international experts* First book to address key contemporary issues involved with environmental scenario analysis* Gives guidelines for best practicesBenefits:* Excellent starting base for first-time scenario practitioners* Helps the reader to interpret scenarios and to place them into the correct context
Shane is hearing and seeing things that can't be real. He's sure no one will understand, and that has turned him into a recluse. Until John comes along. John, his next door neighbor, is everything Shane isn't. He's positive and outgoing, not to mention tall, blond and muscular. He's also a good, caring guy and that only makes Shane want to avoid him. But when John notices that his neighbor is in bad shape, he can't just ignore his distress. John isn't lacking in confidence, but he doesn't know how to deal with the strange things happening to Shane or how to handle the strong feelings his troubled neighbor stirs up in him. While John wants to save him, protect him, above all, he wants to make Shane his.