Resetting Our Future Smart Futures for a Flourishing World : A Paradigm Shift for Achieving Global Sustainability

Has the COVID-19 pandemic derailed the global community’s commitment to achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals by 2030? Are we heading for environmental collapse? Can we avert a climate catastrophe and enable peace, justice, and shared futures for humanity? These questions call for transformational change. This book explores the root causes of today’s failures and lays out a plan for real-world innovation labs using a SMART future design paradigm to achieve the UN’s 17 sustainability goals and 169 targets. SMART futures is a ‘systems literacy’ approach to problem solving that allows us to address challenges of our VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous) world as an integrated whole. This new paradigm shifts us from silo thinking to systems thinking. With lively storytelling and thought-provoking analysis, Dr. Claire Nelson opens a doorway to the future, and a vision of what success might look like. Her stories from the future present worldviews of the feminine and from the global South, which are often absent from contemporary global futures discourse. Titles published in the series; Resetting Our Future: A Chicken Can’t Lay A Duck How Covid 19 can solve the climate crisis: Graeme Maxton and Bernice Maxton-Lee Resetting Our Future: A Global Playbook for the Next Pandemic Anne Kabagambe Resetting Our Future: Cut Super Climate Pollutants Now The Ozone Treaty’s Urgent Lessons for Speeding Up Climate Action: Alan Miller, Durwood Zaelke and Stephen O. Andersen Resetting Our Future: Empowering Climate Action in the United States Deb Morrison and Tom Bowman Resetting Our Future: Impact ED How Community College Entrepreneurship Creates Equity and Prosperity: Rebecca A. Corbin and Mary Beth Kerly Resetting Our Future: Learning From Tomorrow Using Strategic Foresight to Prepare for the Next Big Disruption: Bart Edes Resetting Our Future: Long Haul COVID: A Survivor’s Guide Transform Your Pain & Find Your Way Forward: Julie Luongo and Joseph J. Trunzo Resetting Our Future: Power Switch How We Can Reverse Extreme Inequality: Paul O’Brien Resetting Our Future: SMART Futures for a Flourishing World A Paradigm Shift for Achieving Global Sustainability: Claire A. Nelson Resetting Our Future: What If Solving the Climate Crisis Is Simple? Tom Bowman Resetting Our Future: Zero Waste Living, The 80/20 Way The Busy Person’s Guide to a Lighter Footprint: Stephanie J. Miller Forthcoming titles: Resetting Our Future: Provocateurs not Philanthropists Turning Good Intentions to Global Impact: Maiden Manzanal-Frank Resetting Our Future: Rebalance Charting Our Path to Lead, Parent, Partner and Thrive: Monica Brand Engel and Lisa Neuberger Fernandez Resetting Our Future: Reconstructing Blackness Charles Lattimore Howard Resetting Our Future: Resetting Our Table Michelle Auerbach and Nicole Civita