THIS ARTICLE presents the objectives, methodology and initial findings of a scenario generating effort for the year 2022 for Brazil, and demonstrates the importance and feasibility of using scenarios to plan the country's future. We present Global and Institutional scenarios created by a IEA-USP team within the "Brasil 3 Tempos" project, coordinated by the Strategic Issues Nucleus of the Presidency of the Republic. The results show that it was possible to integrate in a productive manner the views of over 200 experts, creating consistent and plausible future scenarios. Structured visions of the future are fundamental to determining long term strategic actions required to reach desired future states, in the context of the myriad transformations and opportunities in a changing world scene.
Scenarios; Delphi; Future; Development strategy; Forecasting
