Vital Signs 1999

Author : Lester Russell Brown
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393318937
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vital Signs 1999 written by Lester Russell Brown and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1999 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The global trends documented in Vital Sings 1999--from a decline in nuclear power generating capacity to the proliferation of genetically modified crops--will play a large part in determining the quality of our lives and our children's lives in the next decade.

Author : Lester R. Brown
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134192940
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vital Signs 1999-2000 written by Lester R. Brown and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This annual volume shows key trends that should be integrated into the planning of our global future. It enables readers to track key indicators that show social, economic and environmental progress, or the lack of it, into 45 vital signs of our time. Each trend is presented as an overview using both text and graphics.

Author : Lester R. Brown
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134193017
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vital Signs 1999-2000 written by Lester R. Brown and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This annual volume shows key trends that should be integrated into the planning of our global future. It enables readers to track key indicators that show social, economic and environmental progress, or the lack of it, into 45 vital signs of our time. Each trend is presented as an overview using both text and graphics.

Author : Lester R. Brown
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134186010
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vital Signs 1998-1999 written by Lester R. Brown and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 covered for the first time in VITAL SIGNS 1998-99, are frontier forests, plantation forestry, satellite launches, minerals exploration, small arms proliferation and female education. This year's edition points out that global emissions of carbon, the leading contributor to global climate change, hit another new high, while wind power has grown an amazing 26 per cent per year, and sales of solar cells jumped a phenomenal 43 per cent in 1997. VITAL SIGNS is the most comprehensive source of environmental and social information available.

Author : Lester Russell Brown
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393320220
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vital Signs 2000 written by Lester Russell Brown and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2000 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Companion to: State of the world.

Author : Lester R. Brown
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134202741
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vital Signs 2000-2001 written by Lester R. Brown and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ninth annual edition of Vital Signs takes the world's pulse by compiling a wide-ranging collection of trends that identify both problems and progress in the quest for a sustainable society. It highlights both alarming situations and encouraging developments. Part One is a comprehensive presentation of the key indicators in areas such as food, agriculture, energy, atmosphere, economics, transport and the military. Part Two provides in-depth special feature articles on: environmental features, such as transgenic crops and paper recycling; economic features, such as environmental taxes and corporate mergers; and social features, such as tuberculosis, prisons and women in politics.

Author : Janet N. Abramovitz
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393321760
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vital Signs 2001 written by Janet N. Abramovitz and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2001 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses trends in food and agriculture, energy, the atmosphere, the economy, transportation, health and society, the military, and the environment.

Author : Worldwatch Institute
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134205546
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vital Signs 2001-2002 written by Worldwatch Institute and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This annual volume from the Worldwatch Institute gives prominence to key trends that too often escape the attention of the news media, world leaders and economic experts. By distilling 45 vital signs of our times from thousands of government, industrial and scientific sources, the volume allows readers to track key indicators that show social, economic and environmental progress, or the lack or it. Each trend is presented in both text and graphics.

Author : Janet N. Abramovitz
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393323153
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vital Signs 2002 written by Janet N. Abramovitz and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2002 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on the social, economic, and environmental trends that determine the health of people and the planet. Covers mainly the 1990s.

Author : Lester Russell Brown
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vital Signs 1999-2000 written by Lester Russell Brown and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1999 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.