Vital Signs, 1993: The Trends That Are Shaping Our Future

Business & Money

Kane, Hal

Ayres, Ed

Brown,Lester R.

Starke, Linda (Ed)

Economics

W.W.Norton& Company, Inc.

Vital Signs 1994: The Trends That Are Shaping Our Future

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

After decades of steady growth, the world's food supply is no longer keeping up with population increases. Production of fish and grain per person has slowed to the point where feeding the 90 million being added each year is possible only by reducing consumption among those already here. These are the findings in this fourth volume in the Worldwatch Environmental Alert series from the Worldwatch Institute.The bottom line, according to Lester Brown and Hal Kane, is that the world's farmers can no longer be counted on to feed adequately the projected additions to our numbers. Achieving a humane balance between food and people now depends more on family planners than on farmers. This issue will increasingly preoccupy national leaders, reorder national priorities, and dominate international affairs.In this volume, the authors propose a global strategy to restore food security and a budget to implement it. Their global food security budget calls for stepped-up expenditures on both sides of the food/population equation. It includes investments not only to provide family planning services to all who want them, but also to eliminate the underlying causes of high fertility, such as female illiteracy. It also includes investments in an extensive reforestation and soil conservation effort, one that will arrest the deterioration of the agricultural resource base.

Full House: Reassessing the Earth's Population Carrying Capacity (Worldwatch Environmental Alert Series)

Industries

Discusses economic, social, and environmental trends

Vital Signs 1996: The Trends That Are Shaping Our Future

Flavin, Christopher

Discusses economic, social, and environmental trends

Roodman, David Malin

Text and graphics illuminate the trends our world is experiencing, including features on grain production, population growth, wind power, global temperature, fish catches, irrigation, bicycle production, women in politics, cigarette taxes, and new infectious diseases. Simultaneous.

Originally published in 1995, after decades of steady growth, this book was written at a time when the world's food supply was no longer keeping up with population increases. This book examines the causes of the imbalance in the food/population equation and suggests ways in which Malthusian checks can be countered. It calls for an international strategy to restore global security, and a budget to implement it, with a massive redirection of the world's financial resources. On one side of the argument the authors advocate increased expenditure on family planning services, education, and women's rights. On the other, they stress the environmental importance of reforestation and soil conservation schemes to halt the deterioration of the agricultural resource base.

Full House (Routledge Library Editions: Demography)

Routledge

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Vital Signs, 1993: The Trends That Are Shaping Our Future

Vital Signs 1994: The Trends That Are Shaping Our Future

Full House: Reassessing the Earth's Population Carrying Capacity (Worldwatch Environmental Alert Series)

Vital Signs 1996: The Trends That Are Shaping Our Future

Vital Signs 1994: The Trends That Are Shaping Our Future

Vital Signs 1996: The Trends That Are Shaping Our Future

Full House (Routledge Library Editions: Demography)