Organizations
The World Futures Studies Federation
The Global
Business Network (GBN), a worldwide membership organization that engages in a collaborative exploration of the future.
Most resources are restricted to paying members. However, many of the networks reports
can be downloaded for free (although not reproduced).
Research Institutions
The Millennium
Project at the American Council for the United Nations University.
The scenario page at
Royal Dutch/Shell.
Le Laboratoire dInvestigation en Prospective, Stratégie et Organisation (LIPSOR).
The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA).
The Futures Group, which focuses on health issues.
Miscellaneous Resources
The EUs information
portal for environmental scenarios and prospective studies.
The Society for International Development (SID)s
Future Searches programme.
Richard Slaughters Foresight International.
Sohail Inayatullah and Ivana Milojevics Metafuture.org.
Wendy L. Schultzs
Infinite Futures.
The resources page at Kenya at the Crossroads
Note: Of the many national scenario studies available, this one stands out for its
discussion of process. This
is also a good source on scenarios in general.
Global Multi-Thematic Scenarios
Barry Hughes International Futures (IFs)
The Millennium Institutes Threshold 21
UNEPs
Global Environment Outlook
The
Global Scenario Group and the PoleStar
Project
The Great Transition Initiative
A global network elaborating visions and pathways for the future, including
their paper series, Frontiers of a Great Transition,
RIVMs IMAGE
Allen Hammonds Which World?
Global Thematic Scenarios
The IPCCs
Special Report on Emissions Scenarios
The FAOs
World Agriculture: Toward 2015/2030. An FAO Perspective
The FAOs
Global Fibre Supply Study and other forestry outlook studies
Long-Term Scenarios of Livestock-Crop-Land Use Interactions in Developing Countries, prepared
for the FAO by A.F. Bouwman
Regional Multi-Thematic Scenarios
African Futures - National Long Term Perspectives Studies
NIESs Asian-Pacific Integrated Model (AIM)
Five Scenarios for Europe (Europe 2010) by the Forward Studies Unit of the European Commission
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