Trends Scenarios Regions Trends and Scenarios start with global overviews, looking at the world as a whole and at regional comparisons. Regions allows you to focus immediately on one or more regions, exploring trends and scenarios for a particular part of the world. Analysis of critical trends and projections of persistent trends into the future and can give some insight into where we are headed. Yet trends are not destiny.
Unexpected events occur.
Social attitudes or political consensus can shift suddenly. Scenarios offer one way to take such factors into account, and they also can help us consider alternative futures and visualize abstract trends in more concrete and human terms. And regions vary enormously in their political systems and their economic and social development.