The establishment of councils and societies for futures studies in Western countries, such as American
Council for the United Nations University, Washington D. C.: Each year, since 2000, the council has published
the books State of the Future (Glenn & Gordon, 2001; 2002; 2003; 2004; 2005; 2006; 2007; 2008) and World
Future Society, Washington D. C. (Cornish, 1977);
(5) Futures studies by Carswell, Thomas, Petre, Price, and Richards (1999), Dean and West (1999),
Friman, Tufvesson, and Woodling (2000), Robson (2001), Vamadore (1991) and Wicklein (1993), and others.