INTEGRATION AND INTERCONNECTION
The unfolding of the Global Networked Knowledge Society challenges assumptions about how policy levers work, what effects they produce and the roles of public, private and civil society stakeholders. This challenge applies particularly to the medium-to long-term unsustainability of a Global Networked Knowledge Society that seems increasingly dominated by short-term dynamics. Sustainability discussions and policies limited to one or two of its economic, social, environmental and cultural dimensions or isolated parts of the GNKS cannot meet the challenge: sustainability is a global property of the whole system. This challenge calls for a holistic approach that looks rigorously at specific aspects of the system, combines quantitative and qualitative methods and considers appropriate combinations of policy levers: joined-up thinking to find joined-up solutions. The Integration theme within TERRA takes up the specific issues, scenarios, models and insights from the Human Capital, Inequality and Growth and Information Age Sustainability themes and uses them to build an analysis that focuses on the system as a whole.