Maintains that the answer to terrorism lies not in higher fences, laser weapons, or expanded commando forces, but in improved understanding of the linkages between U.S. foreign policy and anti-American terrorism. Reviews geopolitical developments, including international law, and concludes that U.S. safety from terrorism will depend upon our…

College students identified air quality, world hunger, and war technology as the most important of 12 global problems (presented to them during a survey) and indicated that problems will become worse by the year 2000. Implications of findings for curriculum and instruction are addressed. (JN)

This report seeks to expand the understanding of poverty and its causes and sets out actions to create to create a world free of poverty in all its dimensions. The report both builds on past thinking and strategy and substantially broadens and deepens what is judged to be necessary to meet the challenge of reducing poverty. It argues that major…

In January, 1972, in three days of plenary sessions and two of workshops, in Denmark, this association proposed various schemes for world education. Participants who felt world education and the world movement for social change must be intricately tied together were few, indicating the program is indeed new. (Author/JB)

This is the text of the Damon lecture which the author presented as the keynote address on the theme of the 1970 NSTA Annual Meeting. The great world problems of over-population, hunger, environmental pollution, and war and peace are discussed. The relationships between science, technology, and society are reviewed. The author asserts that…

Discusses the biological and social effects of the disease on society. States that a crucial issue is protection from discrimination. Explains that infection can be stemmed by education and altered behavior patterns. (RT)

Article provided a brief overview of the immediate practical problem of how Americans, both individually and collectively, should respond to the uncertainties of a changing world. (Author/RK)

Describes the nuclear fuel cycle and the environmental and social problems which might result from United States or world dependence on nuclear power. (This is a continuation of SE 514 938.) (LS)

At a recent Paris meeting of science ministers and their counterparts from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development member countries, the conferees examined social issues related to the sciences, such as natural resources management and a greater public awareness of science. (Author/MLH)

This paper examines ways in which interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary analysis of global policy studies can increase understanding of complex global problems. Until recently, social science has been the discipline most often turned to for techniques and methodology to analyze social problems and behaviors. However, because social science…

This unit will be available September 1, 1970. See TE 499 864, above.

This unit will be available September 1, 1970. See TE 499 864, above.

To solve societal problems, both local and global, a global approach is needed. Serious diseases that are crippling present-day problem solving and planning are discussed, and the characteristics of a healthy, effective planning approach are described. (RM)

The book titles suggested are merely an introduction to the vast realm of future studies. The novice reader should get started with several overviews and introductions, focus on reading one or more works by leading futurists, become familiar with both visions of "post-industrial society," and explore special problem areas. (RM)