This article identifies major challenges to the utility and use of foresight by policymakers and decision-makers and suggests ways forward to overcome them. The key elements thus underlined could then be used as benchmarks to constructively estimate the relevance of specific foresight efforts to...

No aspect of the global supply chain is untouched by environmental concerns and none more so than the security, broadly writ, of the supply chain itself. From the extraction and exploitation of natural resources, to the production of goods and their movement around the world all the way to...

By examining the background and trends in cyber-crimes, and detailing what is presently known about terrorist uses of information technologies and the Internet, a surprising picture emerges: terrorists use information technologies but, at least for now, not as weapons. Nonetheless, the incessant...

This is four-part work providing an international view of climate change which is designed to complement the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Second Assessment report. The complete work is a benchmark document summarising current understanding of of the contributions of the social...