AC/UNU Millennium
Project
Special Studies
The Millennium Project provides a context for global thinking
and potential for improved understanding of how humanity could work together to
improve the human condition. In addition to the annual State
of the Future reports, the Project conducts different special studies.
Environmental
Security Studies
- Emerging
Environmental Security Issues - Monthly Reports
The purpose of the study is to assess worldwide environmental-related issues
in order to identify and analyze events that might trigger future international
environmental treaties, conventions, or protocols and/or modifications of
the existing ones.
Updated monthly on the website
and included, along with analysis and a synthesis report, in the annual
State
of the Future reports.
- Environmental
Security: Emerging International Definitions, Perceptions, and Policy Considerations
(shorter version: "Defining Environmental Security: Implications for the
U.S. Army")
by Jerome C. Glenn, Theodore
J. Gordon, and Renat Perelet, 1997-1998, for the U.S. Army Environmental
Policy Institute
(included in the State
of the Future reports published after1998)
- Environmental Security: United
Nations Doctrine for Managing Environmental Issues in Military Actions
by Joe B. Sills, Jerome C. Glenn,
Theodore J. Gordon, Renat Perelet, 1999, for the Army Environmental Policy
Institute
- Environmental
Crimes in Military Actions and the International Criminal Court (ICC) -
UN Perspectives
by Joe Sills, Jerome C. Glenn, Elizabeth Florescu, and Theodore
J. Gordon, 2000, for the U.S. Army Environmental Policy Institute
(included in the State
of the Future reports published after 2001)
- Future International Environmental
Security Issues and Potential Military Requirements
over the period
of 2010 to 2025 (included in the
State of the
Future reports published after 2003)
by Jerome C. Glenn and Theodore J. Gordon, 2002, for the U.S. Army
Environmental Policy Institute
State of
the Future Index
The Millennium Project has began the work on a Global State of the Future Index
in 2000. The study has been initiated and is conducted by Theodore J. Gordon.
The first year’s work, published in 2001, was designed to explore the concept
and applications of such an Index. Since then, each year the work extended the
methodology and explored new approaches by which future developments as well
as time series variables could be included in the Index. Since 2004, national
SOFIs were explored and developed.
The Silicon Valley Node of the Millennium Project is currently developing a
greatly advanced version of the SOFI as a software.
World
Leaders on Global Challenges
by Jerome C. Glenn, Elizabeth Florescu, and Theodore J. Gordon
Analysis of the statements delivered by heads of State or Governmentat
at the UN Millennium Summit, September 6-8, 2000. The full report is included
in the State of the Future
reports (2001 and after).
Factors
Required for Successful Implementation of Futures Research in Decisionmaking
by Jerome C. Glenn and Theodore J. Gordon, in 1998-1999
Examples and case studies when Futures Studies influenced decision
making.
This study was made for the Army Environmental Policy Institute. The full report
is included in the State
of the Future reports.
Free copies of the edited version of the report can be obtained from
the Army Environmental Policy Institute, e-mail: John
Fittipaldi <John.Fittipaldi@hqda.army.mil>
Millennium
3000
by Jerome C. Glenn and Theodore J. Gordon, 1999
Very long-range scenarios and foreseeable factors that might
significantly affect the next 1000 years.
The Scenarios are included in the State
of the Future reports and also available at http://www.acunu.org/millennium/scenarios/index.html.
Futures
Studies Reports and Papers - in Spanish
Prepared by the Centro Latinoamericano
de Globalización y Prospectiva, the Latin American node of the
Millennium Project, this CD-ROM includes the Spanish version of the 1997
and 1998 State of the Future reports, and papers on Corruption, Globalization,
Organized Crime, Political Systems, Roadmaps, Reflections on the Future,
and a lot more.
ISBN: 0-9657362-7-X
Price: $49.50 US dollars
To order, please e-mail: acunu.org (to pay
in US dollars or credit card) or, to order from Argentina, e-mail
Miguel
Angel Gutierrez <eni@sinectis.com.ar>.
Views
from the Millennium Project on the Future of Technology with Implications
for Society and the United Nations System
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Paper prepared by Jerome C. Glenn and Theodore J. Gordon for the conference:
On
the Threshold: The United Nations and Global Governance in the New Millennium,
Jnuary 19-21, 2000, United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan
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For the MsWord version of this paper please e-mail: acunu@igc.org
The World Perceived
by the Heart of Europe
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Published by the Society for Sustainable Living and Palacky University
Olomouk, this book is is a collections of papers on the future prepared
by participants of the Central
European Node of the Millennium Project. To get a free copy e-mail:
Pavel Novacek <nov@rupnw.upol.cz>
in the Czech Republic or acunu@igc.org,
in other parts of the world.
Proposal
for an International Global Warming Breakthrough Initiative
by Jerome C. Glenn
Present trends in technology and in CO2 accumulation suggest
that we will probably be in deep trouble in a few decades, if we
do not take more aggressive action now to address the problem.
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