Download or read book La prospectiva estrat gica en la transformaci n de la acci n p blica written by Armando Cortés Galicia and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La prospectiva ha cobrado relevancia en diversos ámbitos durante los últimos años. Cada vez es más frecuente enterarse de la aparición de estudios prospectivos sobre temas como la tecnología, la resolución de conflictos, el desarrollo regional, o la dinámica económica nacional e internacional. Aunque en términos generales estos estudios remiten a pensar en algún tipo de análisis sobre la evolución futura de un tema determinado, es muy común desconocer su contenido y utilidad. En este sentido, la prospectiva se ha convertido en un término de uso corriente en diferentes ámbitos aunque no se sepa con precisión de lo que se trata. Este desconocimiento no es privativo de ambientes extraacadémicos. Durante mis estudios de Maestría nunca pude encontrar una definición satisfactoria de la prospectiva. Este hecho es entendible si consideramos la escasez de textos dedicados al tema. En México y en América Latina sólo podemos destacar los libros de Vladimir Sachs, Diseño de un Futuro para el Futuro, de Tomás Miklos y María Elena Tello, Planeación Prospectiva y de Francisco José Mogica, La Construcción del Futuro. Estos libros, a su vez, no integran muchos de los temas de interés dentro de la prospectiva. El apoyo institucional a la materia no es más numeroso. En América Latina sólo la Escuela de Graduados en Administración Pública y Política Pública (EGAP) del Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) ofrece un postgrado en Prospectiva Estratégica, mientras que la Universidad Externado de Colombia sólo cuenta con un área de especialidad sobre la misma dentro de su Maestría en Administración. Asimismo, la investigación prospectiva en México se limita a los trabajos desarrollados por la Fundación Javier Barros Sierra. Esta realidad fue determinante al momento de elegir mi tema de tesis. Me di cuenta que más que elaborar un estudio específico aplicando las herramientas de la prospectiva estratégica, era necesario llevar a cabo una reflexión teórica sobre la misma. Desarrollar un documento que brindara las directrices suficientes para adentrarse en el complejo y fascinante mundo de la prospectiva. En otras palabras, consideré fundamental abordar una serie de temas selectos sobre prospectiva que esclarecieran los conceptos y alcances de la misma con el fin de brindar un sólido marco de referencia. La prospectiva estratégica, como se verá a lo largo del presente documento, tiene que ver esencialmente con la posibilidad de construir el futuro deseado. En este sentido, puede aplicarse a nivel personal, vislumbrando alternativas de acción individual, o a nivel colectivo, definiendo cursos de acción para alcanzar objetivos comunes. El presente trabajo se enfoca en esta última opción. Considero que abordar el tema desde la perspectiva de la transformación de la acción pública es mucho más enriquecedor que hacerlo desde una óptica individual. No obstante, aquellos que deseen aplicarla en otros ámbitos encontrarán este documento igualmente útil.
Download or read book De la anticipaci n a la acci n written by Michel Godet and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constituye una colección de herramientas y recursos muy valiosos para quienes se dedican a la prospectiva y al análisis estratégico; presenta métodos formales, pero sin caer en el dogmatismo que impide adaptarse a las situaciones cambiantes de la realidad. Describe la transformación de los procesos y estructuras cuando se pasa del análisis a la acción concreta, examinando el aspecto estratégico y aportando gran cantidad de ejemplos e ideas. Al mismo tiempo que enuncia los métodos de la prospectiva, expone los desarrollos matemáticos necesarios para identificar las variables clave del futuro, analiza las estrategias de actores, y construye escenarios para definir las opciones estratégicas. Explica cómo articular la prospectiva y la estrategia mostrando cómo el encuentro y la integración entre los dos enfoques era inevitable. Índice resumido del libro; - La prospectiva, una disciplina intelectual - El método de los escenarios - El análisis estructural - El método MACTOR - El análisis morfológico - Los métodos de expertos y de cuantificación - Articular prospectiva y estrategia - Conceptos principales e instrumentos de la estrategia - El diagnóstico estratégico y prospectivo - Identificar y evaluar las opciones - De la anticipación a la acción por la apropiación.
Download or read book Prospectiva estrat gica y sociedad en cambio written by David Muñoz Condell and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book University and School Collaborations During a Pandemic written by Fernando M. Reimers and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on twenty case studies of universities worldwide, and on a survey administered to leaders in 101 universities, this open access book shows that, amidst the significant challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, universities found ways to engage with schools to support them in sustaining educational opportunity. In doing so, they generated considerable innovation, which reinforced the integration of the research and outreach functions of the university. The evidence suggests that universities are indeed open systems, in interaction with their environment, able to discover changes that can influence them and to change in response to those changes. They are also able, in the success of their efforts to mitigate the educational impact of the pandemic, to create better futures, as the result of the innovations they can generate. This challenges the view of universities as "ivory towers" being isolated from the surrounding environment and detached from local problems. As they reached out to schools, universities not only generated clear and valuable innovations to sustain educational opportunity and to improve it, this process also contributed to transform internal university processes in ways that enhanced their own ability to deliver on the third mission of outreach
Download or read book Cities of Tomorrow written by Peter Hall and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1997-02-18 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities of Tomorrow is a critical history of planning in theory and practice in the twentieth century, as well as of the social and economic problems and opportunities that gave rise to it. Trenchant, perceptive, global in coverage, this book is an unrivalled account of its crucial subject. The third edition of Cities of Tomorrow is comprehensively revised to take account of abundant new literature published since its original appearance, and to view the 1990s in historical perspective. This is the definitive edition, reviewing the development of the modern planning movement over the entire span of the twentieth century.
Download or read book The Demographic Dividend written by David Bloom and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2003-02-13 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is long-standing debate on how population growth affects national economies. A new report from Population Matters examines the history of this debate and synthesizes current research on the topic. The authors, led by Harvard economist David Bloom, conclude that population age structure, more than size or growth per se, affects economic development, and that reducing high fertility can create opportunities for economic growth if the right kinds of educational, health, and labor-market policies are in place. The report also examines specific regions of the world and how their differing policy environments have affected the relationship between population change and economic development.
Download or read book Preventing Ageing Unequally written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-18 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report examines how the two global mega-trends of population ageing and rising inequalities have been developing and interacting, both within and across generations.
Download or read book Pharmaceutical Innovation and Access to Medicines written by OECD and published by Org. for Economic Cooperation & Development. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report reviews the important role of medicines in health sytems, describes recent trends in pharmaceutical expenditure and financing, and summarises the approaches used by OECD countries to determine coverage and pricing.
Download or read book Territory written by David Delaney and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This short introduction conveys the complexities associated with the term "territory" in a clear and accessible manner. It surveys the field and brings theory to ground in the case of Palestine. A clear and accessible introduction to the complexities associated with the term "territory". Provides an interdisciplinary survey of the many strands of research in the field. Addresses specific areas including interpretations of territorial structures; the relationship between territoriality and scale; the validity and fluidity of territory; and the practical, social processes associated with territorial re-configurations. Stresses that our understanding of territory is inseparable from our understanding of power. Uses Israel/Palestine as an extended illustrative case study. The author’s strong legal and geographical background gives the work an authoritative perspective.
Download or read book Making Medicines Affordable written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thanks to remarkable advances in modern health care attributable to science, engineering, and medicine, it is now possible to cure or manage illnesses that were long deemed untreatable. At the same time, however, the United States is facing the vexing challenge of a seemingly uncontrolled rise in the cost of health care. Total medical expenditures are rapidly approaching 20 percent of the gross domestic product and are crowding out other priorities of national importance. The use of increasingly expensive prescription drugs is a significant part of this problem, making the cost of biopharmaceuticals a serious national concern with broad political implications. Especially with the highly visible and very large price increases for prescription drugs that have occurred in recent years, finding a way to make prescription medicinesâ€"and health care at largeâ€"more affordable for everyone has become a socioeconomic imperative. Affordability is a complex function of factors, including not just the prices of the drugs themselves, but also the details of an individual's insurance coverage and the number of medical conditions that an individual or family confronts. Therefore, any solution to the affordability issue will require considering all of these factors together. The current high and increasing costs of prescription drugsâ€"coupled with the broader trends in overall health care costsâ€"is unsustainable to society as a whole. Making Medicines Affordable examines patient access to affordable and effective therapies, with emphasis on drug pricing, inflation in the cost of drugs, and insurance design. This report explores structural and policy factors influencing drug pricing, drug access programs, the emerging role of comparative effectiveness assessments in payment policies, changing finances of medical practice with regard to drug costs and reimbursement, and measures to prevent drug shortages and foster continued innovation in drug development. It makes recommendations for policy actions that could address drug price trends, improve patient access to affordable and effective treatments, and encourage innovations that address significant needs in health care.
Download or read book Hosts and Guests Revisited written by Valene L. Smith and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Epistemologies of the South written by Boaventura de Sousa Santos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the concept of 'cognitive injustice': the failure to recognise the different ways of knowing by which people across the globe run their lives and provide meaning to their existence. Boaventura de Sousa Santos shows why global social justice is not possible without global cognitive justice. Santos argues that Western domination has profoundly marginalised knowledge and wisdom that had been in existence in the global South. She contends that today it is imperative to recover and valorize the epistemological diversity of the world. Epistemologies of the South outlines a new kind of bottom-up cosmopolitanism, in which conviviality, solidarity and life triumph against the logic of market-ridden greed and individualism.
Download or read book The MIT Dictionary of Modern Economics written by David William Pearce and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 1992 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: an up-to-date authoritative reference designed primarily for students of economics but invaluable also to students of business and other social sciences and ideal for anyone who wants a brief explanation of an economic concept or institution
Download or read book Demographic Dynamics of the U S Mexico Border written by John Robert Weeks and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lawsuits and Litigants in Castile 1500 1700 written by Richard L. Kagan and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Architecture in Northern Ghana written by Labelle Prussin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1969.
Download or read book Beyond the City written by Felipe Correa and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the last decade, the South American continent has seen a strong push for transnational integration, initiated by the former Brazilian president Fernando Henrique Cardoso, who (with the endorsement of eleven other nations) spearheaded the Initiative for the Integration of Regional Infrastructure in South America (IIRSA), a comprehensive energy, transport, and communications network. The most aggressive transcontinental integration project ever planned for South America, the initiative systematically deploys ten east-west infrastructural corridors, enhancing economic development but raising important questions about the polarizing effect of pitting regional needs against the colossal processes of resource extraction. Providing much-needed historical contextualization to IIRSA’s agenda, Beyond the City ties together a series of spatial models and offers a survey of regional strategies in five case studies of often overlooked sites built outside the traditional South American urban constructs. Implementing the term “resource extraction urbanism,” the architect and urbanist Felipe Correa takes us from Brazil’s nineteenth-century regional capital city of Belo Horizonte to the experimental, circular, “temporary” city of Vila Piloto in Três Lagoas. In Chile, he surveys the mining town of María Elena. In Venezuela, he explores petrochemical encampments at Judibana and El Tablazo, as well as new industrial frontiers at Ciudad Guayana. The result is both a cautionary tale, bringing to light a history of societies that were “inscribed” and administered, and a perceptive examination of the agency of architecture and urban planning in shaping South American lives.
