@booklet {8993, title = {"Facing the New Atlantic. A Short Story"}, howpublished = {Scotland 2020: Hopeful Stories for a Northern Nation}, year = {2005}, month = {2005}, pages = {56-60}, publisher = {Demos}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Scotland after the Gulf Stream failed. Part climate change dystopia; part high tech eutopia\ with extensive use of virtual reality. The future is unsettled, and everything is presented as in process.\ 

}, keywords = {Male author, Scottish author}, author = {Ken[nth Macrae] MacLeod (b. 1954)}, editor = {Gerry Hassan and Eddie Gibb and Lydia Howland} } @booklet {9502, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Imagineers. A Short Story{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Scotland 2020: Hopeful Stories for a Northern Nation}, year = {2005}, month = {2005}, pages = {61-66}, publisher = {Demos}, address = {London}, abstract = {

A climate change dystopian in which harsh winters have driven people in on themselves, but while the story says, \“There is no happy ever after\” (65), people are creating positive countermeasures.\ 

}, keywords = {Female author, Scottish author}, author = {Julie Bertagna (b. 1962)}, editor = {Gerry Hassan and Eddie Gibb and Lydia Howland} } @booklet {9551, title = {"Intervention"}, howpublished = {Scotland 2020: Hopeful Stories for a Northern Nation}, year = {2005}, month = {2005}, pages = {72-77}, publisher = {Demos}, address = {London}, abstract = {

The story is concerned with changing the mindset of people on disability who have been encouraged to consider themselves sick to reduce the number counted as unemployed. Scotland has developed a program to identify those who can work, the majority, and reintegrate them into the productive economy, even if not in their old jobs.\ 

}, keywords = {Male author, Scottish author}, author = {Ruaridh Nicoll (b. 1969)}, editor = {Gerry Hassan and Eddie Gibb and Lydia Howland} } @booklet {9501, title = {"Scotland the Grave. A Short Story."}, howpublished = {Scotland 2020: Hopeful Stories for a Northern Nation}, year = {2005}, month = {2005}, pages = {67-71}, publisher = {Demos}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Scotland after the oil ran out, which has produced very negative impacts, but Scotland attracts university students because the universities are tuition free, and Scotland is proving an ideal setting for the development of alternative energy resources.\ 

}, keywords = {Female author, Scottish author}, author = {Taylor, Pennie}, editor = {Gerry Hassan and Eddie Gibb and Lydia Howland} } @booklet {9550, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Tartan Initiative{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {Scotland 2020: Hopeful Stories for a Northern Nation}, year = {2005}, month = {2005}, pages = {78-97}, publisher = {London}, address = {Demos}, abstract = {

The story recounts the rise of immigration to Scotland and the loss of the native languages of the immigrant children as well as the loss of Gaelic by the Scots. The Tartan Initiative is a plan, initially by one teacher, to revive both.\ 

}, keywords = {Female author, Scottish author}, author = {Anne Donovan}, editor = {Gerry Hassan and Eddie Gibb and Lydia Howland} }