Bruce E Tonn
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 199676 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Bruce E Tonn |
| NOMBRES | Bruce E |
| APELLIDO | Tonn |
| FIRMA | TONN B E |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Tennessee at Knoxville |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 29 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 106 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1985 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Capturing the expanding research areas of the future of humanity within the field of futures studies
Anticipation, Sustainability, Futures and Human Extinction
This book considers the philosophical underpinnings, policy foundations, institutional innovations, and deep cultural changes needed to ensure that humanity has the best chance of surviving and flourishing into the very distant future. Anticipation of threats to the sustainability of human civilization needs to encompass time periods that span not just decades but millennia. All existential risks need to be jointly assessed, as opposed to address…
Philosophical, institutional, and decision making frameworks for meeting obligations to future generations
Confronting future catastrophic threats to humanity
Intervention in countries with unsustainable energy policies
Obligations to future generations and acceptable risks of human extinction
Thinking About the Future
In this paper, the relationships between three endogenous variables – thinking about, worrying about, and imagining the future – and the relationships between these variables and a rich set of exogenous variables were explored. Data were collected via a web-based survey using a sample of convenience; 572 individuals from 24 different countries completed the survey. The results suggest that respondents think about the near-term future frequently a…
Futures sustainability
Using Scenarios to Assess the Impact of Air Pollution in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
This article addresses tropospheric ozone, created by privately owned vehicles, that may be observed in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in the year 2025, if current trends continue. The uniqueness of our research is twofold: (a) it considers the potential of human settlement patterns in a study region based on existing activities (including sprawl) and (b) it develops a personal trip-making framework to estimate vehicle miles traveled (VM…
Impacts of the Use of E-Mail and the Internet on Personal Trip-Making Behavior
This article presents the results of a web survey of 118 residents in the Knoxville, Tennessee, metropolitan region to explore the impacts of the use of e-mail and the Internet on personal trip-making behavior. Respondents were required to be active drivers and users of e-mail and/or the Internet. Approximately 40% reported that their use of these information technologies has led to less driving overall, and 18% reported less rush hour driving. A…
Research society
Integrated 1000-year planning
Using Informants' Judgments to Infer Attributes in Dynamic Domains
This article describes a methodology, called the Product Attribute Characterization Technique (PACT), which is designed to elicit from informants information to group and describe products. The methodology was developed for use by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in price-indexing efforts. Informants are required to complete three tasks: provide a list of products that fall into the area of analysis, group these products on the basis of similarity,…
What futures for social science
Community Networks or Networked Communities
The article provides an overview of the state of the art in community networks. Forty community networks were reviewed. A protocol was developed to guide the evaluation of each site. The protocol covered the types of information currently provided and whether the network contributes to the social capital of the community. It was found that communities are now served by several types of Web sites: nonprofit community networks, those administered b…
Technology for a Sustainable Environmentm
Although there is debate about its precise definition, the concept of sustainability will certainly be a priority for both human and technological development in the future. Broad social trends indicate that people want more control over their lives and will apply pressure through democratic institutions to achieve a more sustainable, reenvironmentalized society. Public works officials will be deeply involved in meeting the demands of this evolut…
An Introduction to the Focus Issue on National Laboratories and Public Works
Ensuring the future
Revisiting the ‘Court of Generations’ Amendment
Everyday life's constraints on citizenship in the United States
Global Society and Information Technology
Information technology will greatly influence the quality of life in the 21st century. The challenge is to use the technology to help overcome numerous global, regional, and local problems that threaten the quality of life. These problems include global overpopulation, intense and potentially socioeconomically destructive global economic competition, continued pressures on the global environment, increasing levels of regionalized armed conflicts,…
Summary of CSS'95
Sustainable societies in the information age
Non-spatial government
Using the National Information Infrastructure for Social Science, Education, and Informed Decision Making
The United States has aggressively embarked on the challenging task of building a National Information Infrastructure (NII). This infrastructure will have many levels, extending from the building-block capital stock that composes the telecommunications system to the multitude of higher tier applications hardware and software tied to this system. This "white paper" presents a vision for a second- and third-tier national information infrastructure …
The court of generations
Obligations to future generations and acceptable risks of human extinction
Non-spatial government
Futures sustainability
Everyday life's constraints on citizenship in the United States
Philosophical, institutional, and decision making frameworks for meeting obligations to future generations
Integrated 1000-year planning
Impacts of the Use of E-Mail and the Internet on Personal Trip-Making Behavior
This article presents the results of a web survey of 118 residents in the Knoxville, Tennessee, metropolitan region to explore the impacts of the use of e-mail and the Internet on personal trip-making behavior. Respondents were required to be active drivers and users of e-mail and/or the Internet. Approximately 40% reported that their use of these information technologies has led to less driving overall, and 18% reported less rush hour driving. A…
Research society
Community Networks or Networked Communities
The article provides an overview of the state of the art in community networks. Forty community networks were reviewed. A protocol was developed to guide the evaluation of each site. The protocol covered the types of information currently provided and whether the network contributes to the social capital of the community. It was found that communities are now served by several types of Web sites: nonprofit community networks, those administered b…
Confronting future catastrophic threats to humanity
Using the National Information Infrastructure for Social Science, Education, and Informed Decision Making
The United States has aggressively embarked on the challenging task of building a National Information Infrastructure (NII). This infrastructure will have many levels, extending from the building-block capital stock that composes the telecommunications system to the multitude of higher tier applications hardware and software tied to this system. This "white paper" presents a vision for a second- and third-tier national information infrastructure …
Intervention in countries with unsustainable energy policies
Using possibility functions for long-term environmental planning
Information technology and society
Advances in computer hardware and software have allowed information technology to penetrate into and firmly establish itself within our society. The technology affects the performance of our organizations, how we perform our jobs, and how we conduct our everyday lives. Beyond our borders, the. technology has debatable value to developing countries and has most certainly aroused conflicts between nations with respect to trade and broadcasting. Thi…
Using possibility functions for long-term environmental planning
The court of generations
An Object-based Interviewing System
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has developed an object-based interviewing system (OBIS). The key design feature is that each survey question is a function, which is treated as an independent object. The Survey Manager (SM) module maintains a stack of questions and calls each question function when directed. Each question, when called, calls the Interaction Facility (IF) to set up the appropriate screen. This modular approach to automated su…
Using the National Information Infrastructure for Social Science, Education, and Informed Decision Making
The United States has aggressively embarked on the challenging task of building a National Information Infrastructure (NII). This infrastructure will have many levels, extending from the building-block capital stock that composes the telecommunications system to the multitude of higher tier applications hardware and software tied to this system. This "white paper" presents a vision for a second- and third-tier national information infrastructure …
Non-spatial government
Global Society and Information Technology
Information technology will greatly influence the quality of life in the 21st century. The challenge is to use the technology to help overcome numerous global, regional, and local problems that threaten the quality of life. These problems include global overpopulation, intense and potentially socioeconomically destructive global economic competition, continued pressures on the global environment, increasing levels of regionalized armed conflicts,…
Summary of CSS'95
Sustainable societies in the information age
Revisiting the ‘Court of Generations’ Amendment
Everyday life's constraints on citizenship in the United States
Technology for a Sustainable Environmentm
Although there is debate about its precise definition, the concept of sustainability will certainly be a priority for both human and technological development in the future. Broad social trends indicate that people want more control over their lives and will apply pressure through democratic institutions to achieve a more sustainable, reenvironmentalized society. Public works officials will be deeply involved in meeting the demands of this evolut…
An Introduction to the Focus Issue on National Laboratories and Public Works
Ensuring the future
Community Networks or Networked Communities
The article provides an overview of the state of the art in community networks. Forty community networks were reviewed. A protocol was developed to guide the evaluation of each site. The protocol covered the types of information currently provided and whether the network contributes to the social capital of the community. It was found that communities are now served by several types of Web sites: nonprofit community networks, those administered b…
Using Informants' Judgments to Infer Attributes in Dynamic Domains
This article describes a methodology, called the Product Attribute Characterization Technique (PACT), which is designed to elicit from informants information to group and describe products. The methodology was developed for use by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in price-indexing efforts. Informants are required to complete three tasks: provide a list of products that fall into the area of analysis, group these products on the basis of similarity,…
What futures for social science
Impacts of the Use of E-Mail and the Internet on Personal Trip-Making Behavior
This article presents the results of a web survey of 118 residents in the Knoxville, Tennessee, metropolitan region to explore the impacts of the use of e-mail and the Internet on personal trip-making behavior. Respondents were required to be active drivers and users of e-mail and/or the Internet. Approximately 40% reported that their use of these information technologies has led to less driving overall, and 18% reported less rush hour driving. A…
Research society
Integrated 1000-year planning
Using Scenarios to Assess the Impact of Air Pollution in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
This article addresses tropospheric ozone, created by privately owned vehicles, that may be observed in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in the year 2025, if current trends continue. The uniqueness of our research is twofold: (a) it considers the potential of human settlement patterns in a study region based on existing activities (including sprawl) and (b) it develops a personal trip-making framework to estimate vehicle miles traveled (VM…
Thinking About the Future
In this paper, the relationships between three endogenous variables – thinking about, worrying about, and imagining the future – and the relationships between these variables and a rich set of exogenous variables were explored. Data were collected via a web-based survey using a sample of convenience; 572 individuals from 24 different countries completed the survey. The results suggest that respondents think about the near-term future frequently a…
Futures sustainability
Obligations to future generations and acceptable risks of human extinction
Intervention in countries with unsustainable energy policies
Political science (18 obras) · Business (13 obras) · Sociology (13 obras) · Economics (12 obras) · Engineering (12 obras) · Computer Science (11 obras) · Law (11 obras) · Law (11 obras) · Futures contract (8 obras) · Public relations (7 obras)