Resources


A. CONVENINGS -  Click here   
 

B. POWERPOINT - Used in early convenings

PowerPoint A -  Overview and Highlights


C. BACKGROUND MATERIALS

CONTENTS AND INTRODUCTION

I. SCENARIOS OF GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT 

 I.A. Quantitative Scenarios of Global Development

 I.B. Narrative Scenarios of Global Development 

II. EVALUATION OF KEY CONCERNS

II.A. Limits to Growth

 II.A.1. Limits to Growth: Models and Theory 

 II.A.2. Limits to Growth: Biogeophysical Limits 

 II.A.3. Limits to Growth: Technological Change 

 II.A.4. Limits to Growth: Complexity 

II.B. Economic Inequality

 II.B.1. Economic Inequality: The Data 

 II.B.2. Economic Inequality: Inequality and Economic Growth 

 II.B.3. Economic Inequality: Reducing Economic Inequality 

 II.B.4. Economic Inequality: Public Opinion 

II.C. Green Sustainability

 II.C.1 Green Sustainability: Necessity vs Choice 

 II.C.2 Green Sustainability: Public Opinion 

 II.C.3 Green Sustainability: Voluntary Simplicity 

II.D. Globalization and Governance

 II.D.1 Globalization and Governance: Data and Interpretation 

 II.D.2 Globalization and Governance: Institutions and Policy 

 II.D.3 Globalization and Governance: Nation-states, Norms and Values 

II.E. Technological Change

 II.E.1 Technological Change: Projected Trajectories 

 II.E.2 Technological Change: Human Genetic Modification 

 II.E.3 Technological Change: Public Opinion 

 
III. CONCLUDING COMMENTS

 

APPENDICES

1. Cline’s Growth Projections: Closing the Income Gap in 650 Years

2. Model A:  Estimation of Initial Values and Rates of Change

3. The Model A Income Distribution Equations

4. Economic Inequality

5. Definitions of Growth, Well-Being and Related Key Concepts

6. Estimates of Stocks of Energy Resources

7. Calculation of Global Warming Trajectories
 

BIBLIOGRAPHY; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 

 

These BACKGROUND MATERIALS are excerpted and edited sections of the dissertation A Scenario of Economic Well-Being, Ecological Integrity and Social Equity for the 21st Century (Hayes 2004; UC Berkeley).  Excerpted and edited sections of these Background Materials are included in several of the ATTACHMENTS to the Working Paper on the Human Future.