Institute for Global Futures Research (IGFR)

[Institute for Global Futures Research (IGFR)]

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Institute for Global Futures Research (IGFR).
P.O. Box 263E, Earlville, Qld 4870, Australia.
E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
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Dear Colleague,
You have been referred to us as someone who is interested in 
global futures, sustainable development, and social justice.

I am sending you a copy of the Global Futures Bulletin (see 
following e-mail message).  The journal is multidisciplinary and 
succinct.

The Global Futures Bulletin is a publication of the Institute for 
Global Futures Research (IGFR).

Recipient organisations include the World Bank, the US EPA, World 
Futures Studies Federation, Millennium Institute, Intergovernmental 
Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), World Health Organisation, UNDP, 
UNEP, International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), 
International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), Oak Ridge National 
Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Institute for Agriculture 
and Trade Policy, and the United Nations University amongst 36 other 
universities.

We would like to send you SIX successive ISSUES of the Global 
Futures Bulletin FREE OF CHARGE, after which you will be invited 
to take out a membership/subscription.  You are under no obligation 
whatsoever.  (The latest issue will follow within 24 hrs).

The Global Futures Bulletin is published online twice a month.

(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.  However, do let us know if you wish to be deleted from 
the list prior to this).

We have included a background brief on the Institute for Global Futures 
Research (IGFR) along with the latest copy of the Global Futures 
Bulletin (following e-mail).  We hope it is of some use to you.

Regards,
Geoff Holland, Director,
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Institute for Global Futures Research (IGFR).
P.O. Box 263E, Earlville, QLD 4870, Australia.
E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
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INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL FUTURES RESEARCH (IGFR)
BACKGROUND BRIEF

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 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.

The IGFR coordinates an Open Research Program where research 
teams comprising experts and advisers are grouped around 
40 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

FUNDING
The IGFR was initially funded by several private grants, but is 
increasingly becoming financially self-reliant from membership and 
subscription revenue.

Membership fees are the same as subscription fees.

Membership includes subscription to the Global Futures Bulletin 
and additionally means that the subscriber supports the aims and 
work of the IGFR as an independent NGO, but not necessarily the 
views expressed in its publications.

Annual membership/subscription fees
Individual              A$35 / US$26
Concession              A$24 / US$18
Corporate/library       A$68 / US$52

The IGFR is a not-for-profit organisation.

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