Sustainable futures: Policies for global development in a global knowledge society

Hughes, B. B., & Johnston, P. D. (2005). Sustainable futures: Policies for global development in a global knowledge society. Futures, 37(8), 813–831. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2005.01.017

Global sustainable development is the overarching challenge for social and economic policy today. The paper elaborates the concept of sustainable development, identifies some of the levers and policies that might help attain it, describes a modeling system used for analysis, and presents the results of evaluating the impacts of policies and an integrated scenario built upon them.