In 2009 we published Strong Sustainability for New Zealand: Principles and Scenarios. In that publication we referred to major global change drivers that are generally agreed in the foresight literature. The purpose of document attached below is to make short summaries of these drivers available to busy people who would not normally read detailed academic articles.

The drivers are:

• population change 
• climate change 
• price increases for hydrocarbons 
• water 
• food 
• toxins 
• geopolitical shifts 
• wide swings in economic activity 
• technological advances

We are aware that these categories are not unrelated to each other, and that there are other ways of classifying global drivers.