The document outlines components of global environmental analysis, including environmental monitoring, forecasting, and assessment, aimed at providing strategic intelligence on significant environmental changes. It tracks current environmental trends and alerts planners to various forces affecting them, categorized into economic, social, political, technological, and competitive factors. The ultimate goal is to facilitate adaptive planning in response to these trends before they fully develop.

2.  is one component of the global
environmental analysis. Environmental
monitoring,
environmental forecasting and
environmental assessment complete the
global environmental analysis

3.  To provide strategic intelligence by
evaluating potentially significant
environmental changes
 Conveys both current environmental status
and how it is changing trends
 Alerts planners to trends that are
converging, diverging, interacting,
accelerating, or decelerating
 Ideal end-goal: allows for adaptive
planning before these trends occur or fully
develop

4.  Five (5) broad categories:
 Economic forces
 Social, cultural, demographic, &
environmental forces
 Political, governmental, and legal forces
 Technological factors
 Competitive forces

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