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.
Publication types
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Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
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Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
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Review
MeSH terms
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Agriculture / trends
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Animals
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Commerce / trends
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Conservation of Natural Resources / statistics & numerical data
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Conservation of Natural Resources / trends*
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Ecosystem
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Emigration and Immigration
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Environment
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Environmental Pollution
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Greenhouse Effect
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Human Rights / trends
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Humans
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Income / trends
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Life Expectancy / trends
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Oceans and Seas
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Population Dynamics
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Poverty / trends
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Social Change
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Technology / trends
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Trees
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Warfare
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Water Supply