Research

Finland Futures Research Center
Based at the Turku School of Economics and Business Administration; studies emerging issues of change, scenarios, and long-range strategies for local, national, regional and global organizations; offers on-line futures research training; stresses sustainable development.
http://www.tse.fi/EN/units/specialunits/ffrc/Pages/default.aspx

Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies
One of the oldest US futures research centers, affiliated with a graduate futures program: research activities, papers, course descriptions, alumni lists and links, and the Manoa Journal of Fried and Half Fried Ideas (about the Future) [12 volumes].
http://www.futures.hawaii.edu/

Institute for Futures Research (University of Stellenbosch)
Academic research center specializing in business and technology foresight, demographic, economic, and energy forecasting, and long-term systems-science-based studies of sociopolitical structures; publication list and newsletter synopses.
http://www.ifr.sun.ac.za/

Institute for the Future
Based in Menlo Park, this non-profit research center specializes in long-term forecasting, and quantitative futures research methods.
http://www.iftf.org

The Pelican Web
Interdisciplinary resources for futures research on solidarity, sustainability, non-violence, human development, gender equality in secular and religious institutions, and the U.N. Millennium Development Goals. By Luis T. Gutierrez.
http://pelicanweb.org