1st Edition

Vital Signs 1998-1999 The Environmental Trends That Are Shaping Our Future

By Lester R. Brown Copyright 1999
142 Pages
by Routledge

142 Pages
by Routledge

First Published in 1998. In this seventh annual edition of VITAL SIGNS the team at the Worldwatch Institute bring together an eclectic selection of disparate trends to offer a unique, multifaceted view of our rapidly changing world. This vital resource and reference guide traces the scientific, social, economic and environmental trends that have and continue to shape our world. Among the trends... Read more
Food trends; agricultural resource trends; energy trends; atmospheric trends; economic trnds; transportation trends; communications trends; social trends; military trends; forest frontiers; forest plantations; vertebrate trends; recycling organic wasts; nitrogen levels; urban air pollution; private capital flows; tax shifts; fossil fuel subsidies; paper recycling; cigarette taxes; minerals exploration; environmental markets; female education; sanitation; small arms proliferation. (Part contents.)

Biography

Lester R. Brown, Michael Renner, Christopher Flavin