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SEQ 2021: Rural Futures - The things that typify rural SEQ - agricultural activities, areas of natural beauty and conservation value, water catchments, and many small urban and rural residential communities - are under increasing pressure. The challenge for rural SEQ is to create a future which balances competition for land and natural resources between the needs of rural landholders, rural communities and the overall population of the region. This challenge has been met head on through the Rural Futures project.
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The Australian Foresight Institute - The Australian Foresight Institute (AFI) of Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia is intensively networked around the world with leading futures/foresight organisations and practitioners. AFI aims to set new standards internationally and to facilitate the emergence of a new generation of foresight practitioners in Australia.
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The Building Futures Institute - The Building Futures Institute is a research unit of the College of Architecture and Planning. It engages Ball State faculty, students and industry partners in research in a number of domains: * Open Building * Building Science * Building Industry * Computational Methods * Building Culture * Innovative Practices * Design Theory and Methods
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The Global Future Forum - The global future forum is an independent partnership of futurists, academics and businesspeople, committed to helping organizations extend their strategic planning horizons, and better prepare for the future. It offers business a single point of access to the world's leading future-thinkers, and develops the knowledge-bases and methodologies to enable business to adopt future-thinking as an integral part of their strategic planning process.
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The Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies - One of the oldest and best-known futures-oriented academic research institutes in the world. The HRCFS, enables individuals, communities, government agencies, and business organizations to examine possible and preferred futures and to develop visions, foresight, and strategic plans; to identify future trends and emerging issues, and to understand their potential impacts.
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The Housing Futures Institute: Archives - A research unit in the College of Architecture and Planning at Ball State University. From 1991 until 1999, a number of projects were undertaken, addressing certain aspects of community development and housing design, including studies of manufactured housing, energy, and neighborhood design. These archives document some of the projects.
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The Institute for Futures Research - The Institute for Futures Research is a research organization designed to give graduate students at the University of Houston-Clear Lake an opportunity to practice in futures research while they are still pursuing their studies. The Institute is associated with the Master's program in Studies of the Future at the university, one of only two academic programs training professional futurists in the United States at the present time.
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The Institute for Sustainable Futures - The Institute for Sustainable Futures (ISF) was established by the University of Technology, Sydney in 1996 to work with industry, government and the community to develop sustainable futures through research, consultancy and training. Sustainable futures result from economic and social development that protects and enhances the environment, human well-being and social equity.
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University Of Montana Rural Institute - The Rural Institute: Center for Excellence in Disability Education, Research, and Service is committed to developing solutions to the unique challenges of living, working and recreating with a disability in rural settings. Funded by the Federal Administration on Developmental Disabilities(ADD), the Institute's wide range of grant-funded research, service and training projects blend innovative approaches and techniques with existing community services.
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World Futures Studies Federation - An organization of some 500 individuals and 60 institutions around the world whose mission is to promote futures education and research. The WFSF is a global network of practicing futurists -- researchers, teachers, scholars, policy analysts, activists and others from over 80 countries -- established in 1967.
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