Author: Lester R. Brown Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134202741 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 193
Book Description
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: Worldwatch Institute Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134205546 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 193
Book Description
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: 9780393321760 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 196
Book Description
Discusses trends in food and agriculture, energy, the atmosphere, the economy, transportation, health and society, the military, and the environment.
Author: The Worldwatch Institute Publisher: Island Press ISBN: 1610916727 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 150
Book Description
What we make and buy is a major indicator of society’s collective priorities. Among twenty-four key trends, Vital Signs Volume 22 explores significant global patterns in production and consumption. The result is a fascinating snapshot of how we invest our resources and the implications for the world’s well-being. The book examines developments in six main areas: energy, environment and climate, transportation, food and agriculture, global economy and resources, and population and society. Readers will learn how aquaculture is making gains on wild fish catches, where high speed rail is accelerating, why plastic production is on the rise, who is escaping chronic hunger, and who is still suffering. Researchers at the Worldwatch Institute not only provide the most up-to-date statistics, but put them in context. The analysis in Vital Signs teaches us both about our current priorities and how they could be shaped to create a better future.
Author: Gregg Levoy Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101608897 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 512
Book Description
Rediscover—or discover for the first time—the things that make you passionate in life Vital Signs is about what inspires passion and what defeats it. How we lose it and how we get it back. And ultimately it’s about the endless yet endlessly fruitful tug-of-war between freedom and domestication, the wild in us and the tame, our natural selves and our conditioned selves. Each chapter in Vital Signs will contain a core sample, an intimate biography of one of the strategies we employ to gain or regain our passion. The book also affirms the importance of courageous inquiry into dispassion—where we’re numb, depressed, stuck, bored—so the reader can recognize and change these tendencies in themselves.
Author: Janet N. Abramovitz Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 9780393323153 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 222
Book Description
Focuses on the social, economic, and environmental trends that determine the health of people and the planet. Covers mainly the 1990s.
Author: Worldwatch Institute Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134030266 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 154
Book Description
This annual volume from the Worldwatch Institute gives prominence to key trends that often escape the attention of the news media, world leaders and economic experts. The book distils 36 vital signs of our times from thousands of governmental, industrial and scientific sources, allowing readers to track key indicators that show our social, economic and environmental progress, or lack of it. Each trend is presented in both text and graphics, providing a thorough overview.
Author: Joseph V. Stewart Publisher: CRC Press ISBN: 1498713777 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 178
Book Description
Pocket-sized text provides the procedures for taking accurate vital signs. Provides an historical overview and covers such vital signs as temperature, heart rate, respiration, blood pressure, and level of consciousness. For nurses, residents and physicians. Wire-spiral binding.
Author: The Worldwatch Institute Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134035306 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 145
Book Description
'VITAL SIGNS does for the environment what stock market indicators do for the City. But it says more about the future of our world than the FTSE ever can ' BBC Wildlife Magazine 'VITAL SIGNS is a sharply focused snapshot of the world Ideal for dipping into it makes fascinating reading ' New Agriculturalist 'The scope of the book is vast ... the presentation is clean and seamless ' Humanitarian Affairs Review 'An enlightening insight into the relationship between the environment and human activity ' Green Futures VITAL SIGNS 20052006 provides up-to-the-minute information on global warming, population growth, military spending, HIV/AIDS, economic equity, the trade in drugs and a whole range of other environmental, developmental, social, political and economic issues. By distilling 25 'vital signs' of our times from thousands of governmental, industrial and scientific sources, this book allows reader s to track key indicators that show our progress in issues that too often escape the attention of the news media, world leader s and economic experts . Each theme is presented in both text and two colour graphics, providing a thorough, well-documented and very accessible over view.
Author: Lester R. Brown
Author: Lester Russell Brown
Author: Worldwatch Institute
Author: Janet N. Abramovitz
Author: The Worldwatch Institute
Author: Gregg Levoy
Author: Janet N. Abramovitz
Author: Worldwatch Institute
Author: Joseph V. Stewart
Author: The Worldwatch Institute