date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 09:55:35 +0100 (GMT Daylight Time) from: Julie Burgess subject: IGFR and Global Futures Bulletin to: cru.all@uea.ac.uk Is this of interest to anyone? Julie --- Begin Forwarded Message --- Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 15:54:15 +0800 From: "Institute for Global Futures Research (IGFR)" Subject: IGFR and Global Futures Bulletin Sender: "Institute for Global Futures Research (IGFR)" To: - Invalid Address - Reply-To: "Institute for Global Futures Research (IGFR)" Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20000906155415.00847220@mail.mpx.com.au> ----------------------------------------------------------------- Institute for Global Futures Research (IGFR). P.O. Box 263E, Earlville, Qld 4870, Australia. E-mail: . ----------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Colleague, You have been referred to us as someone who is interested in global futures, sustainable development, and social justice issues. If you have been sent this message in error, please accept our apologies. (Please let us know so we can adjust our records). The Institute for Global Futures Research (IGFR) arose out of a series of meetings held during the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, 1992. The IGFR was established in 1995 as an independent research centre to explore urgent global issues and longterm future options. The brief of the IGFR is to build a macro interdisciplinary perspective by researching pivotal issues in the areas of peace and social justice, the global environment and climate change, poverty and Third World development, human rights and democracy, population, resources, international relations, the global economy, science and technology, urban planning, and comparative culture, to mention but some of the key areas. The IGFR coordinates an Open Research Program where research teams comprising experts and advisers are grouped around 43 interest areas. Using futures and other methodologies as well as non-methodological (intuitive) approaches, we draw results together from different disciplines to identify major trends, global parameters, continuities and discontinuities, and use this understanding to generate options for the future. GENERAL AREAS OF RESEARCH 1. development issues, theory and paradigms 2. peace and conflict resolution. 3. climate change 4. energy 5. evolving world order 6. biodiversity and habitat 7. emancipation of women 8. megatrends in technology 9. comparative society 10. implications of globalisation 11. ethnic relations and multicivilisations 12. food and sustainable agriculture 13. international governance 14. Agenda 21 15. quality of life indicators 16. population issues 17. toxic waste 18. urban development 19. global finance 20. transport 21. future generations - ethics 22. water 23. global parameters, scenarios, new dimensions 24. disaster 25. futures studies methodologies 26. history of the future 27. longwaves and macrohistory 28. industry trends, industrial ecology 29. new economics 30. corporate citizenship 31. alternative communities and lifestyles 32. cyberspace revolution 33. global conventions and international law 34. world summits 35. Gaia theory 36. world health 37. world systems theory 38. equity 39. spirituality and religion 40. community development 41. ecopsychology 42. space 43. deep futures The IGFR produces a twice-monthly journal (Global Futures Bulletin) disseminated via e-mail to all its members and subscribers. Members and subscribers include students and community leaders, members of various religious affiliations and non-government activist organisations, scientific research centres, university academics, and senior officials in the corporate sector, government policy makers and multilateral organisations, in 76 countries. We will shortly be sending you a copy of the Global Futures Bulletin. The journal is multidisciplinary and succinct. Recipient organisations include: World Bank, World Futures Studies Federation (WFSF), United Nations Commission for Human Settlement (UNCHS), United Nations Organisation, UNDP, Tellus Institute, Stockholm Environment Institute, Millennium Institute, International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP), Institute for Alternative Futures, Ford Foundation, Finland Futures Research Centre, FAO, EPA (US), EPA (Australia), Applied Futures, numerous government agencies, and researchers in 52 universities including Cornell, Harvard, Cambridge and Oxford. We would like to send you six successive issues of the Global Futures Bulletin free of charge, after which you will be invited to become a member or subscriber. You are under no obligation whatsoever. (If you find it is of no use to you, you need not respond and you will be automatically deleted from the recipient list at the end of the free trial period. Let us know if you prefer not to receive any bulletins prior to this). The IGFR is funded by membership and subscription revenue. The Institute for Global Futures Research (IGFR) is a not-for-profit organisation. The latest copy of the Global Futures Bulletin will be sent shortly. We hope it is of some use to you. Sincerely, Geoff Holland, Director, ----------------------------------------------------------------- Institute for Global Futures Research (IGFR). P.O. Box 263E, Earlville, QLD 4870, Australia. E-mail: . ----------------------------------------------------------------- --- End Forwarded Message --- ******************************************************** Julie Burgess Climatic Research Unit University of East Anglia Norwich NR4 7TJ Tel. +44 (0)1603 592722 Fax. +44 (0) 1603 507784 CRU web site: http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/