World Resources 1990-91

World Resources is a bi-annual publication of the World Resources Institute. This edition reviews a range of environmental issues including population, human settlements, food and agriculture, forests and rangelands, wildlife, energy, freshwater, oceans and coasts, the atmosphere, global systems and cycles, and policies and institutions. Special sections in this issue deal with climate change and Latin America. An extensive data section presents unique tables on the topics covered earlier.

World Resources Institute

Oxford University Press

Widely recognized as an authoritative assessment of the world's natural resource base, the World Resources series offers a comprehensive guide to the global environment. Building on earlier volumes, the 1990-91 edition focuses on climate change the world over and provides an overview of Latin American environmental and resource issues. The section on global climate change offers analyses of topical and controversial issues such as the "greenhouse effect," and features a unique Greenhouse Index that ranks countries by emissions of gases that may lead to global warming. Also new is a discussion of how developing countries could better measure their progress toward sustainable economic growth. Other chapters cover population and health, human settlements, food and agriculture, forests and rangelands, wildlife and habitat, energy, freshwater, oceans, and coasts, atmospheric pollution, global monitoring systems, and policies and institutions. Each includes both updated information on resource conditions and trends, and coverage of new issues. As always, World Resources provides more than 120 pages of data tables covering 146 countries, and features a wide variety of charts, tables, and other graphics--many unique to this book--that make it the most complete and current reference available on the subject. With its wealth of information and data, and its attractive and easily accessible format, World Resources 1990-91 is an indispensable sourcebook for anyone concerned with the state of the world environment. Features: * The most authoritative source of information on natural resources, prepared by two leading policy research organizations * Readable and accessible * Special section on climate change discusses one of the most important environmental issues of our time * Concise accounts of the latest trends in population and health, human settlements, food and agriculture, forests and rangelands, wildlife and habitat, energy, freshwater, oceans and coasts, atmosphere and climate, global systems and cycles, and policies and institutions * 120 pages of data tables covering 146 countries * Fully cross-referenced and indexed

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World Resources 1992-93: A Guide to the Global Environment

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.

Teacher's Guide to World Resources 1990-91

Teacher's Guide to World Resources 1992-93

An annually updated reference work which provides an authoritative assessment of the world's natural resources.

World Resources 1994-1995

The seventh biennial issue of the most authoritative survey of the global environment brings together in a highly readable format the latest ideas on a broad spectrum of urban environmental issues and suggests strategies for addressing them. The authors pool the vast resources of the World Resources Institute, the United Nations Development and Environment Programmes, and the World Bank to analyze the impact of urban development on human health and welfare, on the environment, and on economic performance. 
The report looks at the sprawling cities of the developing world such as Manila, where 76% of the population inhabits unauthorized housing; at the disintegrating metropolitan landscape in the northeastern U.S., spotlighting Philadelphia, where over 20% of the population subsists below the poverty level; and at the rapidly industrializing cities in Eastern Europe such as Katowice in Poland, where child mortality is 1.5 times the national average. In addition, the 1996-97 edition presents the most recent data and compares conditions and trends in developed (Northern) and developing (Southern) cities, exploring similarities and differences in the nature of environmental problems and their possible solutions. 
True to its reputation as the definitive reference on the world environment, the new Report includes up-to-date tables and analysis on numerous topics, including basic economic indicators, forests and rangelands, atmosphere and climate, biodiversity, and water resources. Key data on more than 150 countries are included. This indispensible resource arms decision-makers with valuable information for the development of policies that effectively manage the global environment and natural resources.

World Resources 1996-97

The World Bank

The United Nations Environment Programme

The United Nations Development Programme

The seventh biannual issue of the most authoritative report on the global environment brings together in a highly readable format the latest ideas on a broad spectrum of urban environmental issues and suggests strategies for addressing them. The authors pool the vast resources of the World Resources Institute, the United Nations Development and Environment Programmes, and the World Bank to analyze the impact of urban development on human health and welfare, on the environment, and on economic performance. The report provides a fascinating analysis of the environmental challenges facing the world's cities--where 50 percent of the global population will live by the year 2000. Included in this comprehensive survey are cities such as Detroit, where urban sprawl is leading to poverty and environmental degradation in the inner city core; Manila, where three out of every four people live in unauthorized housing; Mexico City, where air pollution contributes to 6,400 deaths each year; and densely packed Jakarta, whose 8 million residents live without a water-borne sewage system. The 170-page section on the urban environment includes a comparison of urban conditions and trends throughout the developing and developed world, a sobering look at the impacts of urban environmental conditions on human health and productivity, a timely analysis of how urban transportation systems are contributing to environmental problems, and, finally, a close-up look at creative strategies based on case studies from cities and communities across the globe. True to its reputation as the definitive reference on the world environment, the new Report also includes up-to-date tables and analysis on numerous topics, including basic economic indicators, forests and rangelands, atmosphere and climate, biodiversity, and water resources. Key data on more than 150 countries are included. Published simultaneously in seven languages, this indispensable resource arms students and decisionmakers with valuable information for the development of policies that effectively and sparingly manage the global environment and natural resources.

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World Resources 1990-91

World Resources 1990-91

World Resources 1992-93: A Guide to the Global Environment

World Resources 1992-93: A Guide to the Global Environment

Teacher's Guide to World Resources 1990-91

Teacher's Guide to World Resources 1992-93

World Resources 1994-1995

World Resources 1994-1995

World Resources 1996-97

World Resources 1996-97