State of the World 2007 An Urban Planet

Politics & Social Sciences

Worldwatch Institute

Social Sciences

Earthscan Ltd

Thinking in Systems: A Primer

<p>"Thinking in Systems" is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem-solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. This essential primer brings systems thinking out of the realm of computers and equations and into the tangible world, showing readers how to develop the systems-thinking skills that top leaders across the globe consider crucial for 21st-century life. While readers will learn the conceptual tools and methods of systems thinking, the heart of the book is grander than methodology.</p>

Business & Money

Donella H. Meadows and Diana Wright

Economics

World on the Edge

Science & Math

Brown, Lester

Biological Sciences

Genes From The Wild - Using Wild Genetic Resources for Food and Raw Materials

Robert and Christine Prescott-Allen

Nepal is associated, in most people's imagination, with Everest (Sagarmatha to the Nepalese), vivid plants and picturesque villages and people. The truth, as always, is other. It is one of the poorest countries in the world, surrounded by big and powerful neighbours. It is immensely diverse, ranging from the great mountains to the north through the trans-Himalaya, a high barren plateau, through the deep valleys, which include the one which contains the ancient cities of Kathmandu, Patan and Bhaktapur, to the Terai which is an extension of Ganges plain. This atlas describes not only the complexity of the environment, but the people, the languages, the towns and industries, the agriculture, food and land management, the natural resources, the effects of tourism, sources of energy, transport and education policies.

The atlas of Nepal in the modern world

JOHN KIRKBY

Michael Sill

Earth Sciences

Democratizing Development: Role of Voluntary Organizations

John T. Clark

Economics of Protected Areas: A New Look at Benefits and Costs

John Dixon

State of the World

Lester R. Brown

"Beyond the Limits" presents a warning and a choice: a rapid and uncontrolled decline in food production, industrial capacity, population and life expectancy, or a sustainable future. By using their system dynamics computer model as a unique tool to project the future, and by varying the basic policy assumptions, the authors are able to show a range of possible outcomes. Among them, they show that a sustainable society is technically and economically feasible, but only if growth in material consumption and population are eased down and there is a rapid and drastic increase in the efficiency of our use of materials and energy. To make the transition, the authors argue that humanity will have to balance long and short term goals with much greater care, enhancing equity and the quality of life.

Beyond the limits: Global collapse or a sustainable future

Meadows, Donella H.

Meadows, Dennis L.

Randers, Jørgen

STEADY-STATE ECONOMICS

Herman E.Daly

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