“…The potential value of futures approaches gained serious recognition in the early 1980s (Godet, 1987(Godet, , 1991Lindstone, 1989), and since then scores of futures studies have been carried out at the national level in countries around the world (Garrett, 1990). Several dozen such endeavours were described in a volume entitled Studies for the 21st Century, which was published by UNESCO (Garrett et al, 1991).…”