03766cam a22005538i 4500 9781003471004 FlBoTFG 20251030122251.0 m o d cr ||||||||||| 240522s2025 enk ob 001 0 eng OCoLC-P eng rda OCoLC-P 9781003471004 (ebook) 1003471005 9781040128374 (electronic bk. : EPUB) 1040128378 (electronic bk. : EPUB) 9781040128350 (electronic bk. : PDF) 1040128351 (electronic bk. : PDF) 9781032748016 (hardback) 9781032747996 (paperback) 10.4324/9781003471004 doi (OCoLC)1440044146 (OCoLC-P)1440044146 HV553 MED 003010 bisacsh REF 031000 bisacsh SOC 016000 bisacsh GTJ bicssc Kent, R. C., author. 94940 Humanitarian futures : challenges and opportunities / Randolph C. Kent. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2025. 1 online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Routledge humanitarian studies An Odyssey -- The Changing Dimensions of Human Agency -- Governance and Resource Prioritisation from a Futures Perspective -- Towards the Brink -- The Entanglement Nexus -- Managing Humanitarian Threats in a Polylateral World -- The Humanitarian Organisation for the Future -- The Helenus Alternative -- Planning from the Future. "Humanitarian Futures: Challenges and Opportunities explores the increasing types, dimensions and dynamics of crises threatening the world in the twenty-first century, and argues that those with humanitarian roles and responsibilities can only meet such challenges if their approaches to strategic and operational planning undergo fundamental paradigmatic shifts. Strategically and operationally, such shifts must begin by planning from the future, for the future. Author Randolph Kent, the UN's first Humanitarian Coordinator, with experience in some of the most complex crises of modern times, including Rwanda, Ethiopia, Kosovo, Sudan and Somalia, provides a blueprint for dealing with ever greater complexity on planet Earth and beyond. That blueprint is not about upgrading existing tools or relying upon tried precedence. Rather, it points to a new paradigm for meeting crises. It begins by looking at the changing nature of humanness and governance, and then turns to plausible future crises based on such changes, before concluding with practical steps for dealing with ever more complex humanitarian threats, now and in the future. This book will be an essential read for humanitarian policymakers and practitioners as well as for humanitarian and global studies researchers and students who are and want to be engaged in understanding and preparing for ever more complex and unpredictable humanitarian challenges"-- Provided by publisher. OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record. Humanitarian assistance. 61893 Disaster relief. 60223 MEDICAL / Allied Health Services / Emergency Medical Services bisacsh 94941 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services bisacsh 61223 Taylor & Francis https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003471004 OCLC metadata license agreement http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf E-Books 67930 67930