Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere is an organization originated at

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which focuses on the creation of a new paradigm by the use o
foresight intelligence
to systematically examine likely and possible futures so as to determine what behavioral and institutional changes are necessary to ensure a sustainable and equitable future for all. Strategically, MAHB is aiming to bridge the gap between scientific knowledge and policy action so as to alter public perception of these issues as well as to understand why desperate conservation needs are barely responded to.

Process

Emphasis is focused upon

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and increasing consumption by the already well off as well as economic, racial and gender inequality. It aims to bring together civil society groups and related organizations to build networks, share information and act together.Ceballos, G.; Ehrlich, A. H.; Ehrlich, P. R. (2015). ''The Annihilation of Nature: Human Extinction of Birds and Mammals''. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 174 – via Open Edition.

History

At the beginning of the 21st century when the MAHB was born, it was known as the Millennium Assessment of Human Behavior, making the point that it was following the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MEA) but focusing on human behavior and collective actions leading to global collapse. But that name led to considerable confusion, especially because another global behavioral assessment was underway, and because MAHB activities range from research related to how behavioral, cultural, and institutional change toward a sustainable path can be accomplished to generating fora to discuss and illuminate that path. Thus it was decided to retain the well-known acronym and re-focus the name to a more accurate description: the Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere. In April 2014 a chapter detailing the MAHB's scientific approach and research agenda for sustainability was included in the boo
''Understanding Society and Natural Resources: Forging new strands of integration across the social sciences''
(ed. Michael J. Manfredo, Jerry J. Vaske, Andreas Techkemmer, and Esther A. Duke, Springer). The chapter,
Millenniuam Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere (MAHB): Integrating Social Science and the Humanities into Solving sustainability Challenges"
was co-authored by Ilan Kelman, Eugene A. Rosa,

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, Paul Ehrlich, Joan M. Diamond, Nora Machado, Donald Kennedy, and

Lennart Olsson Lennart Olsson, born 1961, is a Swedish zoologist and embryologist, professor of comparative zoology at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany. Olsson focuses his research primarily on the embryological development of the vertebrate h ...

References

* Stanford University Sustainability organizations Futures studies organizations {{future-stub