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1992-93 ISBN 9780195062304
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Widely recognized as a unique, authoritative assessment of the world's natural resource base, World Resources offers a comprehensive guide to the global environment. The new 1992-93 edition--sure to be the crucial background document for understanding the issues of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, which will rely on the World Resources Institute to set its agenda--provides a focus on human development and growth worldwide. It examines opportunities for improved technologies and better policies that could assist in achieving more sustainable economic growth, sets priorities for solving the twin problems of poverty and natural resource degradation, and examines recent trends in human development and environmental progress. The new edition includes a special focus on children's health, covering major causes of mortality, new initiatives to improve child survival, and issues in financing child health care. Other chapters cover environmental decline in Eastern Europe, sustainable agriculture in the developed world, forests and rangelands, energy and wastes, freshwater, oceans and coasts, and atmosphere and climate conditions and trends. With a complete set of data tables and maps, World Resources 1992-93 remains an essential resource for all concerned with the future of the environment.
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1994-95 ISBN 9780195210446
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An annually updated reference work which provides an authoritative assessment of the world's natural resources.
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1994-95 : pbk ISBN 9780195210453
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The latest edition of an internationally acclaimed assessment of the world's natural resource base. Featured topics in this edition are rapid population growth in developing countries, the voracious consumption of natural resources in industrialized countries, and the role of women in sustainable economic growth in developing countries. Updated figures in the book's unique data tables on economic, population, environmental, and natural resource conditions. World Resources 1994-5 is the sixth edition in an award-winning series that is an authoritative assessment of the world's resource base. This edition features chapters on the voracious consumption of resources in industrialized countries, the rapid growth of populations in developing countries, the importance of women in sustaining economic growth in developing countries, and on china and India. The unique and valuable data tables in previous editions have been updated for 153 countries. Also updated are summaries of global conditions and trends for more than a dozen key topics, including population and health, food and agriculture, oceans and coasts, energy, wildlife and habitat, and forests and rangelands.
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1996-97 ISBN 9780195211603
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This annually updated reference work reviews a range of environmental issues, such as population, human settlements, food and agriculture, forests and rangelands, wildlife, energy, oceans and coasts, the atmosphere, global systems and cycles, and policies and institutions.
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1996-97 : pbk ISBN 9780195211610
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New edition of the authoritative assessment of the world's natural resource base.
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1998-99 ISBN 9780195214079
内容説明
This is the 8th edition in a series which provides an authoritative assessment of the world's natural resource base. This edition focuses on the relationship between environmental change and human health. Drawing on the latest scientific data, it explores how environmental conditions contribute to death and disease around the world, and how that may change in the coming decades. The book examines several trends that have the potential to influence human health by changing the physical environment, such as the intensification of agriculture, industrialization and the rising use of energy. As in previous editions, "World Resources 1998-99" looks at the current state of the environment as it relates to population, human well-being, resources at risk, and consumption and waste. The book also contains the latest core data from 157 countries and new information on poverty, inequality and food security. It is intended for economists, environmentalists and college courses (undergraduate and graduate) in the environment.
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1998-99 : pbk ISBN 9780195214086
内容説明
This is the 8th edition in a series which provides an authoritative assessment of the world's natural resource base. This edition focuses on the relationship between environmental change and human health. Drawing on the latest scientific data, it explores how environmental conditions contribute to death and disease around the world, and how that may change in the coming decades. The book examines several trends that have the potential to influence human health by changing the physical environment, such as the intensification of agriculture, industrialization and the rising use of energy. As in previous editions, "World Resources 1998-99" looks at the current state of the environment as it relates to population, human well-being, resources at risk, and consumption and waste. The book also contains the latest core data from 157 countries and new information on poverty, inequality and food security. It is intended for economists, environmentalists and college courses (undergraduate and graduate) in the environment.
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