title: Long-term trends and a sustainability transition.
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.
authors.affiliation: rkates@acadia.net
authors.forename: Robert W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Kates
authors.forename: Thomas M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Parris
mesh_terms: D000383:Agriculture / Q000639:trends; D000818:Animals; D003132:Commerce / Q000639:trends; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources / Q000706:statistics & numerical data / Q000639:trends*; D017753:Ecosystem; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D004777:Environment; D004787:Environmental Pollution; D017752:Greenhouse Effect; D006806:Human Rights / Q000639:trends; D006801:Humans; D007182:Income / Q000639:trends; D008017:Life Expectancy / Q000639:trends; D009792:Oceans and Seas; D011157:Population Dynamics; D011203:Poverty / Q000639:trends; D012922:Social Change; D013672:Technology / Q000639:trends; D014197:Trees; D014857:Warfare; D014881:Water Supply