Late benefits from early actions

[volkery]

Dear Gep-Ed readers,

some of you might know the work the European Environment Agency has been
doing on "Late lessons from early warnings". We are currently playing
around with the idea of reversing the analytical focus, i.e. a booklet
that might be called "Late Benefits from Early Actions" which would be
devoted to the social history of decisions made a longer time ago (even
more than 100 years) that have proved on balance to be highly beneficial.
The idea would be to provide a vivid picture of long term thinking and
also to examine the conditions in which such decisions are made and the
thought processes which led to them. We would be happy to get some input
and ideas, especially as regards for:

1 How to get candidate case histories?
2 How to see if they already have been written up in the proper way?
3 How the could be summarized in an engaging way or done de novo?

Best regards
Axel

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Dr. Axel Volkery
Policy and Scenario Analysis
European Environment Agency
Kongens Nytorv 6
1050 Copenhagen K
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www.eea.europa.eu