The IFF World Model maps the factors essential for diagnosing interdependencies, based on some guiding principles:

• The factors are recognisable as relevant at all levels from individuals through communities to the global level;
• They cover key factors in environment and society that range from the living biosphere to the worldviews of people;
• They both highlight existing global/local issues as well as providing a framework for anticipating future issues;
• They avoid the usual categories like environment, economy, technology, politics and so on to help provoke fresh thinking.

Each factor is an umbrella for a cluster of related factors explained in detail in scanning section of this site. The factors can be divided into four broad categories:

• Planetary Viability
  • Biosphere
  • Climate
  • Water
    
• Resource Balance
  • Energy
  • Food
  • Trade
    
• Human Stewardship
  • Governance
  • Wealth
  • Habitat
    
• Human Quality
  • Community
  • Wellbeing
  • Worldview

Structure

Discontinuities

Interconnections

Three Horizons

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