This seventh annual examination of the world's ecological health by the Worldwatch Institute provides a global action plan for shaping a sustainable society and dealing with environmental concerns--such as climate, air pollution, water and food supplies, and other problems.

State of the World 1990: A Worldwatch Institute on Progress Toward a Sustainable Society

Business & Money

Michael Renner

Lester R. Brown

John, Young

Linda Starke

Alan Durning

Sandra Postel

Christopher Flavin

Jodi Jacobson

Marcia Lowe

Economics

W W NORTON & CO @

Worldwatch Paper 84 : Rethinking the Role of the Automobile

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Worldwatch Institute

In the 2012 edition of its flagship report, Worldwatch celebrates the twentieth anniversary of the 1992 Earth Summit with a far-reaching analysis of progress toward building sustainable economies. Written in clear language with easy-to-read charts, State of the World 2012 offers a new perspective on what changes and policies will be necessary to make sustainability a permanent feature of the world's economies. The Worldwatch Institute has been named one of the top three environmental think tanks in the world by the University of Pennsylvania's Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program.

State of the World 2012: Moving Toward Sustainable Prosperity

The Worldwatch Institute

Erik Assadourian

Island Press

Fighting for survival : environmental decline, social conflict, and the new age of insecurity (Worldwatch environmental alert series)

Science & Math

Nature & Ecology

Earthscan / James & James

The Cold War is over, little has changed fundamentally as far as reliance on the military is concerned. Thus, at the threshold of the twenty-first century, the international community faces a fundamental challenge: either build the foundations for a lasting peace or be overwhelmed by an endless string of internal wars capable of devastating entire countries, even of re-igniting big-power confrontations. And as events in the Balkans have demonstrated, current peace and security policies are woefully inadequate.In this paper, author Michael Renner argues that the international community is more likely to avoid crises like Kosovo's by devoting as much energy and enthusiasm to fortifying the nascent infrastructure of peace as it has to building military muscle. He lays out a program for transforming the process of international policy-making by infusing it with human rights, humanitarian, and human development concerns to a far greater extent than has been the case to date-by moving toward human security.There is no single path to ending conflict. Renner makes a convincing case for a multi-layered strategy that includes: pursuing disarmament; promoting conflict prevention and mediation; building effective, permanent peacekeeping forces; protecting human rights and prosecuting war criminals; and invigorating global institutions like the United Nations and the World Court.

Ending Violent Conflict (Worldwatch Paper 146)

Sociology

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