Featuring charts and tables, the latest reference book in an annual series analyzes current global environmental problems and trends, offers possible solutions, and traces the enormous changes of the last century and the challenges to come. Simultaneous.

State of the World 1999: A Worldwatch Institute Report on Progress Toward a Sustainable Society

Business & Money

Flavin, Christopher

French, Hilary F.

Brown,Lester R.

Economics

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

State of the World 2000 shines an intense light on the great challenge our civilization faces: how to use our political systems to manage the difficult and complex relationships between the global economy and the Earth’s ecosystems. The newest volume in the annual series that has become the bible of the global environmental movement--and indispensable for anyone concerned with the future of our world. State of the World 2000 provides national leaders and concerned citizens with a comprehensive framework for the global debate about our future in the new century. This annual survey by the award-winning Worldwatch Institute has become an invaluable analysis of negative environmental trends and a guide to emerging solutions. The book shows how our current fossil-fueled, auto-centered, throwaway economy is steadily destroying the very ecosystems that form the foundations of our lives. The great challenge we face in the next century is making the transition to a sustainable economy that reuses and recycles materials, is powered by renewable energy sources, and has a stable population. The authors argue that meeting this challenge will offer some of the greatest investment opportunities in history. Written in clear and concise language, with easy-to-read charts and tables, State of the World 2000 presents a view of our changing world that we, and our leaders, cannot afford to ignore.

State of the World 2000: A Worldwatch Institute Report on Progress Towards a Sustainable Society (State of the World (Paperback))

Postel, Sandra

The Worldwatch Institute

W.W.Norton&Company

A look at the profound implications of accelerating globalization for our planet's health, and a prescription for the action necessary to cope with this challenge.Our world is shrinking fast: goods, money, microbes, pollution, people, and ideas are crossing borders with growing ease. National governments are ill-suited for tackling the problems that result, from climate change, to the soaring trade in limited resource commodities like timber, to the management of regional water supplies. Hilary French argues that the only long-term solution to our environmental problems is a worldwide commitment to strengthening the international treaties and institutions essential for integrating ecological considerations into the still-nascent rules of global commerce. More than two hundred international environmental treaties already exist, but few of them stipulate stringent commitments and effective enforcement; and institutions such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Trade Organization continue to view environmental protection as a peripheral concern. But at the same time, new communications technologies are making it possible for nongovernmental organizations to mobilize powerful coalitions of private citizens to press for change, and some forward-thinking businesses have begun to support environmental codes of conduct and other international standards. Vanishing Borders provides people concerned about the future of the planet with a clear plan of action for ensuring environmental stability in the wake of globalization. Charts, tables and graphs

Vanishing Borders: Protecting the Planet in the Age of Globalization

Green revolutions: Environmental reconstruction in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union (Worldwatch paper)

Worldwatch Institute

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