The Council on the Future of Vermont  and St. Michael's Center for Social Science Research are proud to release Vermont in Transition: A Summary of Social, Economic and Environmental Trends. This book covers the major changes in fourteen public policy issues areas in Vermont over the past two decades. St. Michael's College researchers worked in a team with state, federal, non-profit and business data analysts to compile all the data and trendlines available in this book. The book is based on the major topics raised in the CFV public forums, as well as the expertise of St Michael's research team. To write this report, authors spoke with hundreds of data analysts and experts across the state; together they have identified 160 key trends and have included over 300 supporting graphs and charts. This research component is one of the inputs that the Council on the Future of Vermont will take into deliberation as it writes its final products.

This work is available in an easy to use format. You can download the entire book (8.17MB) as well as all of the appendices (2.46MB) or you can choose one chapter at a time to download and view.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Introduction (274kb)
   
2. Section I: The Vermont Context
3. Chapter 1: Population (2.74MB)
4. Chapter 2: Environment and Climate (2.1MB)
5. Chapter 3: Land Use (1.98MB)
6. Section II: The Vermont Economy
7. Chapter 4: Economy (2.84MB)
8. Chapter 5: Affordability (1.95MB)
9. Chapter 6: Agriculture (1.81MB)
10. Chapter 7: Forestry (1.74MB)
11. Chapter 8: Creative Economy (1.06MB)
12. Section III: Infrastructure
13. Chapter 9: Physical and Electronic Infrastructure (1.77MB)
14. Chapter 10: Energy (2.65MB)
15. Chapter 11: Education (3.47MB)
16. Section IV: The Institutions
17. Chapter 12: Health and Health Care (1.83MB)
18. Chapter 13: Crime and Corrections (1.08MB)
19. Chapter 14: Governance, Civic Engagement and Quality of Life (2.32MB)