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The Food Security Challenge in an Age of Falling Water Tables and Rising Temperatures
Historically, food security was the responsibility of ministries of agriculture but today that has changed: decisions made in ministries of energy may...
"How to build a more just world and save the planet....We should all heed Brown's advice."—Bill Clinton In this updated edition of the landmark Plan...
New Sources of Economic Stress
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Building an Economy for the Earth
In 1543, Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus challenged the view that the sun revolved around the earth, arguing instead that the earth revolved aro...
The Nineteen Dimensions of the Population Challenge
On the bicentennial of Malthus' legendary essay on the tendency of population to grow more rapidly than the food supply, this book examines the impact...
“[Brown’s] ability to make a complicated subject accessible to the general reader is remarkable.”—Katherine Salant, Washington Post As fossil ...
In this urgent time, World on the Edge calls out the pivotal environmental issues and how to solve them now. We are in a race between political and na...
Food is the new oil. Land is the new gold. The world food situation is deteriorating. Grain stocks have dropped to a dangerously low level. The World ...
By Bread Alone is an interdisciplinary analysis of the global food situation and food production prospects. It examines the problems posed by the new ...
Today's Decisions, Tomorrow's World
In this study, the award-winning environmental analyst Lester Brown and his colleagues have charted progress in building the eco-economy - an economy ...
How To Prevent Environmental And Economic Collapse
A Worldwatch Institute Report on Progress Toward a Sustainable Society
Report assessing society's ability to sustain itself without hurting the next generation...
The Environmental Trends that are Shaping Our Future
Analyzes the key indicators of 1998 that will play a large part in determining the social, economical, and environmental health of the nation in the n...
A Worldwatch Institute Report on Progress Towards a Sustainable Society
Evidence is mounting of the human and social costs of unsustainable practices, as the standard of living of communities and whole countries is threate...
Problems and Prospects
Reassessing the Earth’s Population Carrying Capacity
Originally published in 1995, after decades of steady growth, this book was written at a time when the world’s food supply was no longer keeping up ...
The Trends that are Shaping Our Future
Discusses economic, social, and environmental trends...
The Environmental Trends That Are Shaping Our Future
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 ...
A Worldwatch Institute Report on Progress Toward a Sustainable Society. 1995
An inspirational memoir tracing Lester Brown’s life from a small-farm childhood to leadership as a global environmental activist. Lester R. Brown, w...
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 prog...
First Published in 1998. In this seventh annual edition of VITAL SIGNS the team at the Worldwatch Institute bring together an eclectic selection of di...
The Trends That Are Shaping Our Future
The sixth annual guide to the environmental, economic and social trends which are shaping the future, this text presents the good news, the bad news, ...
Shifting From Fossil Fuels To Wind And Solar Energy
The great energy transition from fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy is under way. As oil insecurity deepens, the extraction risks of fossil f...
In "State of the World 2002, " the Worldwatch Institute's award-winning research team describes how to meet the complex challenges of restoring a sust...
plan B : ecología para un mundo en peligro
Este texto se transforma en una voz de alerta sobre esa guerra silenciosa que día a día destruye nuestro mundo sin que hasta ahora podamos plantear ...
This is the 15th annual review of the world's progress towards creating a sustainable society. It provides a synthesis and reference for both general ...
Looking Ahead at World Food Needs
1991 : a Worldwatch Institute Report on Progress Toward a Sustainable Society
Topics covered in the 1989 volume include: the role of the automobile; ozone depletion; land degradation; life expectancy; and food....
Reassessing the Earth's Population Carrying Capacity
Originally published in 1995, this book was written at a time when the world's food supply was no longer keeping up with population increases. This bo...
The Trends that are Shaping Our Future 1993/1994
Now in its 3rd edition, this study responds to a widespread hunger for information on the ecological trends reshaping the world - carbon emissions, en...
Report assessing society's ability to sustain itself without hurting the next generation....