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

State of the Future Index

Global Scenarios

Other Studies

Presentations

• 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.
  For an organization of the items by cathegory, please download the MsWord document ES-scanning-07.doc --items identified between August 2002 and June 2007, or ES-2006-07.pdf for items identified between July 2006-June 2007.
   
• 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
  • Vol. I   United Nations Doctrine for Managing Environmental Issues in Military Actions
  • Vol. II  International Treaties, Conventions and Protocols that address environmental related issues
    Selected International Organizations relevant to Environmental Security
    (included in the State of the Future reports published after 1999)
• 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
  by Jerome C. Glenn and Theodore J. Gordon, 2002, for the U.S. Army Environmental Policy Institute

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.

OTHER STUDIES

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.millennium-project.org/millennium/scenarios/index.html.

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.

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

For the MsWord version of this paper please e-mail: acunu@igc.org

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.

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.

"Building Balanced and Adoptive Sectoral Innovation System in Nanotechnology to Accelerate Scientific & Technological Breakthroughs and Improve Human Conditions"
by Dr. Nadezhda Gaponenko, Head of Department, Centre of Science Development Study, Russian Node co-Chair

Presentations
(this section will soon be completed with more presentation)

Frontiers of Futures Research by Ted Gordon, at the Inauguration of the Graduate Diploma on Foresight and Strategy, Simon Bolivar University, January 25, 2008

Seminar on Futures Research Methodologies for the United Nations. Organized by the World Federation of United Nations Associations in partnership with the NGO-Section/DESA, Thursday 27 March 2008, United Nations Headquarters, New York (email jglenn@igc.org for the presentation )