political
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Publications
All Change
The latest edition of Arup’s publication A2 is themed “Getting More With Less”. Foresight helped put together some searching questions that Arup put to UK-based experts and leaders in five industry sectors.
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Research
A global land-grab: is food the strongest currency?
Increasing populations and environmental degradation are placing a huge strain upon global food supplies. Many countries have developed a new strategy to secure their food stocks – leasing or buying agricultural land abroad.
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Research
Fighting for resources: a new type of conflict?
Many of the Earth’s natural resources will not last forever. Countries are now willing to go to war to secure their natural resource supplies to ensure their future security. How is resource scarcity influencing the political and social agenda?
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Workshops
ICE Future of UK Aviation Industry
The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) wanted to instigate a national debate about the future development of UK airport infrastructure. In 2009, they commissioned Arup’s Foresight team to design and lead a collaborative process to build a set of plausible scenarios for the future of UK aviation.
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Publications
drivers of change: 2009
This new set of 175 cards investigates leading drivers in greater depth that have particular relevance to the work of Arup. They include energy, waste, climate change, water, demographics, urbanisation and poverty.
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Tools
drivers of change voting application
The Drivers of Change voting application is a cloud based tool for digitally storing and re-presenting the issues that groups of people feel are important.
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Publications
drivers of change: 2006
What will our world be like in 2050? This is the earliest set of 50 Drivers of Change cards (now out-of-print) dealing with leading macro-issues that were the result of talks and workshops carried out worldwide between 2002 and 2005.
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Research
drivers of change
Since our first set of Drivers of Change cards, printed in 2006, we have been producing an ongoing series of publications that deal with key issues affecting the future of the built environment.
