This webliography features online resources that document future trends and issues. Website and Busse library materials reflect a portion of available information.
Gateways to Trend Information -- Reports -- Business and Economics -- Demographics -- Education -- Health -- Leisure, The Arts, and Culture -- Science and Medicine -- Technology -- Busse Library Resources
- ForecastCenter.com
- Hudson Institute -- public policy research group that forecasts trends
- UNESCO -- Survey 2003
- Consumer Price Indexes: U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Economic Growth Research: The World Bank Group
- Economic Policy Institute (EPI)
- Economic Statistics Briefing Room: The White House
- Economist.com -- online version of magazine
- EIU: Economist Intelligence Unit -- offers business and economic data for 180 nations
- National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
- U.S. Census Bureau: Economic Briefing Room
- World Trade Organization (WTO)
- 6 Billion Human Beings: National Museum of Natural History, France -- interactive study of world population growth
- Population Reference Bureau: 2003 World Population Data Sheet -- data for all UN nations with 150,000+ in population
- UN Population Information Network (POPIN) -- projections for all nations
- U.S. Census Bureau: Population Projections
- World Bank Group: Poverty in Africa
- About.com: Distance Learning
- About.com: Homeschooling
- National Education Association (NEA): The Future of Higher Education
- Open Campus
- Project 2061: Science Literacy for a Changing Future : American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) -- reforming K-12 American science education
- "Trends to Watch in Higher Education." Society for College and University Planning (SCUP)
- U.S. Charter Schools
- EC/UNFPA Initiative for Reproductive Health in Asia -- sponsored by the German Foundation for World Population (DSW)
- HHRAA: Health and Human Resources Analysis for Africa: USAID
- Health Canada Online
- Health, United States, 2003: National Center for Health Statistics -- includes full text with trend tables
- Healthy People 2010: U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- UNAIDS: The Joint UN Program on HIV/AIDS
- The UNDP South East Asia HIV and Development Program
- WHO/Europe: World Health Organization, Regional Office for Europe -- detailed reports and trends for area
- World Health Organization (WHO) Statistical Information System (WHOSIS)
Leisure, The Arts, and Culture
- Division of Science Resource Studies: Issue Briefs and Reports: National Science Foundation (NSF) -- latest r&d information
- Energy Research and Development: Global Trends in Policy and Investment: Pacific NW National Laboratory (PNL): U.S. Department of Energy
- Molecular Medicine 2020: A Vision for the Future of Medical Research and Human Health
- R&D Magazine Online -- features annual 100 newest and best products
- Science Magazine: Pathways to Discovery -- breakthrough changes in science
- The U.S. Human Genome Project Information
- George Washington University (GW) Forecast: A Virtual Think-Tank for Tracking the Technology Revolution
- Microsoft Research (MSR)
- Redherring.com: Top Ten Trends 2004
- Wired Magazine: Technology -- offers latest product development news
- Andreopoulos, George J. Human rights education for the twenty-first century / c1997. JC571 .H769442 1997
- Brown, Lester Russell. The World watch reader on global environmental issues / 1991. TD174 .W68 1991
- Bundy, Robert. Images of the future : the twenty-first century and beyond / 1976. CB161 .I43
- Chertow, Marian R. Thinking ecologically: the next generation of environmental / c1997. HC79.E5 T476 1997
- Franklin, John Hope. The color line: legacy for the twenty-first century / c1993. E185.615 .F69 1993
- Gordon, Florence. Statistics for the twenty-first century / c1992. HA35 .S72 1992
- Heilbroner, Robert L. 21st century capitalism / 1993. HB501 .H395 1993
- Human Rights Watch. Human Rights Watch World Report / c1991-. JC571 .H785
- Kennedy, Paul M. Preparing for the twenty-first century / c1993. CB161 .K44 1993
- National Research Council. The aging population in the twenty-first century : statistics / 1988. RA408.A3 N37 1988
- Western, David. Conservation for the twenty-first century / 1989. QH75 .C663 1989
- Wolfe, John R. The coming health crisis : who will pay for care for the aged / c1993. HD7102.U4 W63 1993
- Worldwatch Institute. State of the world: a Worldwatch Institute report on progress / c1984-. QH75 .S7x Ref.
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