Long-term trends and a sustainability transition.

Kates, Robert W; Parris, Thomas M · Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A · 2003

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Abstract

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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