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Humanitarian Futures Challenges and Opportunities.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kent, R. C.
- Series:
- Routledge humanitarian studies series
- Routledge Humanitarian Studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Humanitarian intervention.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (253 p.).
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2024.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Information
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: Cassandra's Challenge and the Helenus Alternative
- The Copernican Vision
- Cassandra's Challenge and the Helenus Alternative
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 1 An Odyssey
- Defining the Nature
- Types, Dimensions and Dynamics
- of Crisis Threats
- Crises From Organisational Perspectives
- The Politicisation Process and Humanitarian Implications
- Confronting Complexity in Humanitarian Contexts
- Who Is the Humanitarian and Where Is the Action?
- In Search of Innovation and Innovative Practices
- Leaving 'The Field'
- 2 The Changing Dimensions of Human Agency
- Human Agency in Context
- The Weird and the Wonderful: Upsides and Downsides
- R-Evolutionary Dynamics
- Human Agency and Human Space
- Human Engagement
- Human Needs
- Contextualising Human Agency
- 3 Governance and Resource Prioritisation: From a Futures Perspective
- The Boundaries of Governance and the Dynamics of Resource Distribution
- Evolving Governance Constructs
- Governance Paradigms in an Historical Context
- Disintegration, Fragmentation and Reconfiguration
- The Evolving Nature of State: From Geographical Boundaries to Virtual
- Global Architecture and the Entanglement Nexus
- Governance and the Dynamics of Decision-Making
- The Resource Distribution Process in a 2050 Context
- The Nature of Resources
- Owners and Occupiers
- Controllers and the Controlled
- Resource Distribution and Emerging Disparities
- Conclusion: The Prioritisation Process
- 4 Towards the Brink
- Portraits and Their Purpose
- Future Humanitarian Crises: Types, Dynamics and Dimensions
- Portraits of Vulnerability
- A Typology of Crisis Drivers
- Technological Hazards
- Structural Fragmentation
- Systems Collapse
- Natural Hazards
- Dimensions and Dynamics of Crisis Threats
- Interacting Nature of Crisis Drivers
- Cascading Risks From a Futures Perspective
- Simultaneous Crises
- Drawing Back From the Brink
- 5 The Entanglement Nexus
- Introduction
- The Entanglement Nexus
- Evolving Patterns of Entanglements
- The Entanglement Paradox
- Entanglement and Mutual Self-Interest
- Entanglement, Mutual Self-Interest and Humanitarian Motives
- Mutual Self-Interest Versus Compassion
- We're All Humanitarians Now
- 6 Managing Humanitarian Threats in a Polylateral World
- Exploring Systems, Alliances, Coalitions, Networks and Social Movements
- Persistent Weaknesses
- Fluctuating Strengths
- New Perspectives
- Three Metaphors: Clusters, Webs, Swarms in a Polylateral Context
- Clusters: Concept and Creation
- The Concept
- Cluster Creation
- Towards Webs of Interests
- Defining Webs
- Fostering Webs
- Building Upon Recognised Mutual Self-Interests
- Facilitating Swarms
- The Dynamics
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Platforms for Facilitation
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Kent, Randolph C. Humanitarian Futures
- ISBN:
- 9781040128350
- 1040128351
- Publisher Number:
- 90101324858
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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