Update to The Sigma Scan

Published in: The Sigma Scan, 2011

Posted on RAND.org on January 01, 2011

by Stephanie Diepeveen, Barbara Janta, Harun Dogo, James Forsaith, Mihaly Fazekas, Simo Goshev, Tony G. Thompson-Starkey, Anais Reding, Ohid Yaqub, Deirdre May Culley, et al.

This external publication is an online database of short Horizon Scanning Centre think-pieces. RAND Europe updated 25% of the papers on this database, to incorporate more recent policy issues, evidence, and developments. The Sigma Scan is a searchable set of brief papers exploring potential future issues and trends over the next 50 years which may have an impact on UK public policy. The papers cover a wide range of subjects, from climate science to social science, space exploration, economics and human rights.

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