Long-Term Trends and a Sustainability Transition

How do long-term global trends affect a transition to sustainability? We emphasize the "multitrend" nature of 10 classes of trends, which makes them complex, contradictory, and often poorly understood. Each class includes trends that make a sustainability transition more feasible as well a...

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Published inProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS Vol. 100; no. 14; pp. 8062 - 8067
Main Authors Kates, Robert W., Parris, Thomas M.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States National Academy of Sciences 08.07.2003
National Acad Sciences
SeriesScience and Technology for Sustainable Development Special Feature
Subjects
Agriculture - trends
Animals
Biological Sciences
Commerce - trends
Conservation of Natural Resources - statistics & numerical data
Conservation of Natural Resources - trends
Consumer economics
Developed countries
Ecological sustainability
Ecosystem
Emigration and Immigration
Environment
Environmental Pollution
Globalization
Greenhouse Effect
Human Rights - trends
Humans
Income - trends
Initiatives
Life Expectancy - trends
Oceans and Seas
Population Dynamics
Population growth
Poverty - trends
Renewable energy
Science
Science and Technology for Sustainable Development Special Feature
Social Change
Social Sciences
Sustainability science
Sustainable consumption
Sustainable development
Sustainable urbanism
Technology - trends
Trees
Trends
Warfare
Water Supply
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Summary:How do long-term global trends affect a transition to sustainability? We emphasize the "multitrend" nature of 10 classes of trends, which makes them complex, contradictory, and often poorly understood. Each class includes trends that make a sustainability transition more feasible as well as trends that make it more difficult. Taken in their entirety, they serve as a checklist for the consideration of global trends that impact place-based sustainability studies.
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Communicated by Susan Hanson, Clark University, Worcester, MA, March 7, 2003
ISSN:0027-8424
1091-6490
DOI:10.1073/pnas.1231331100