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AIDS in Africa: Three scenarios to 2025
“This book is about AIDS and Africa, and the world’s response to both, and presents three stories describing possible futures. If, by 2025, millions of African people are still becoming infected with

Author: UN AIDS project
Organisation: UN AIDS project
Publish Date: 2005
All Possible Wars? Toward a Consensus View of the Future Security Environment, 2001–2025
Assesses the future security environment to the year 2025. This was pursued by surveying the available literature to identify areas of consensus and debate. The goal was to conduct an assessment that

Author: Sam J. Tangredi
Organisation: Institute for National Strategic Studies National Defense University
Publish Date: 2000
Alternative projections of mortality and disability by cause 1990–2020: Global Burden of Disease Study
“Plausible projections of future mortality and disability are a useful aid in decisions on priorities for health research, capital investment, and training. Rates and patterns of ill health are deter

Author: Christopher J. L. Murray, Alan D. Lopez
Organisation: Lancet 1997; 349: 1498–1504
Publish Date: May 1997
Alternative Scenarios of Urban Water Infrastructure Systems
Urban Water Infrastructure Systems (UIWS) are complex (technical, socio-economic, judicial, and institutional) systems with a large number of actors / stakeholders involved. Existing conventional UWI

Author: Dr.-Ing. Harald Hiessl Fraunhofer
Organisation: ISI
Publish Date: Nov 2007
An Enhanced Algorithm to Predict a Future Crime using Data Mining
The main aim of this research work consist of developing analytical data mining methods that can systematically address the complex problem related to various forms of crime.

Author: Malathi, A. S. and Santhosh Baboo
Organisation: Government Arts College, India; D.G Vaishnav College, India
Publish Date: 2011
An inter regional water resources planning model
Increasing competition for the Republic of South Africa’s (RSA) scarce and unevenly distributed water resources necessitates a planning strategy to cope with inter regional water scarcity. The RSA Na

Author: C.B. Schultz, M.D. Watson, I. Taviv
Organisation: 1st WARFSA/WaterNet Symposium: Sustainable Use of Water Resources; Maputo
Publish Date: November 2000
Analyzing Urban Poverty: A Summary of Methods and Approaches
In recent years an extensive body of literature has emerged on the definition, measurement and analysis of poverty. Much of this literature focuses on analyzing poverty at the national level, or spat

Author: Judy Baker and Nina Schuler
Organisation: The World Bank
Publish Date: September 2004
Anti-obesity drugs: past, present and future
To succeed in developing drugs that control body weight to the extent seen following surgical intervention, it seems obvious that a new paradigm is needed. In other therapeutic arenas, such as diabet

Author: R. John Rodgers, Matthias H. Tschöp and John P. H. Wilding
Organisation: University of Leeds, Munich and Technical University, University Hospital Aintree, Liverpool
Publish Date: 2012
Anticipating the Future: A Political Agenda for Global Economic Governance
In the next fifty years, world population will increase by fifty percent from the 6 billion people currently to 9 billion, leveling off after 2050. All the population increase will come from poor cou

Author: Colin I. Bradford, Jr.
Organisation: The Brookings Institution
Publish Date: June 2004
Anticipatory Democracy and Aspirational Futures
Anticipatory democracy is Alvin Toffler's prescription for humanity's response to the challenges of the future in his 1970 bestselling book, Future Shock. A few years after Future Shock was published

Author: Clement Bezold
Organisation: Institute for Alternative Futures, USA
Publish Date: November 2010
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