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The Next Challenge of Disarmament
Provides an in-depth analysis of the issue of small-arms control. It discusses wars & privatized violence, firearm production & the ease of purchase, ...
Governments, rebels, and warlords have made billions of dollars by selling conflict commodities and have used the money to arm themselves and line the...
Environmental Decline, Social Conflict, and the New Age of Insecurity
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Creating Opportunities for Peace
Unnatural" disasters -- The march toward disaster -- Understanding factors of vulnerability -- Storm clouds and silver linings -- Case study: Aceh : p...
Converting to a Peace Economy
Towards Decent Work in a Sustainable, Low-carbon World
[The Report]...gathers data on employment on different sectors - renewable energy, energy efficiency in buildings, sustainable transportation, and org...
The Economic and Environmental Dimensions
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 ...
Strategies for Conversion
This book looks at the problems and opportunities of a switchover of skills, equipment, and other resources from military purposes to civilian uses, w...
A Growing Source of Jobs
Shows how environmental policies can stimulate the creation of jobs in areas such as energy and materials efficiency, renewable energy, remanufacturin...
In 1987, a record 126,000 automobiles rolled off assembly lines each working day, and close to 400 million vehicles are used on the world's roads toda...
Working for People and the Environment
Green jobs, employment that contributes to protecting the environment and reducing humanity's carbon footprint, will be a key economic driver of the 2...
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...
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, ...
The Future of Peacekeeping
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 Toward a Sustainable Society
Tackles the pressing issue of international security and its ramifications on the health of our planet....
Companion to: State of the world....
The global trends documented in Vital Sings 1999--from a decline in nuclear power generating capacity to the proliferation of genetically modified cro...
The news is perplexing. Both the president and vice president of the United States have fallen ill with mysterious, flu-like symptoms. It is not long ...
A Worldwatch Institute Report on Progress Towards a Sustainable Society
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company....
Ein »Gesicht haben« gilt als Voraussetzung dafür, angeschaut zu werden. In der Bildergesellschaft begegnen wir Gesichtern überall: in der Politik,...
This series of project publications aims to capture the tools, methods, and processes developed under the EC and ILO joint project entitled "Strengthe...
Moving Toward Sustainable Prosperity
In the 2012 edition of its flagship report, Worldwatch celebrates the twentieth anniversary of the 1992 Earth Summit with a far-reaching analysis of p...
Confronting Climate Change
First Published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company....
Moving Toward Sustainable Prosperity : a Worldwatch Institute Report on Progress Toward a Sustainable Society
"In articles from experts around the world, this report presents a comprehensive look at current trends in global economics and sustainability, a poli...
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company....
Governing for Sustainability
Citizens expect their governments to lead on sustainability. But from largely disappointing international conferences like Rio II to the U.S.’s fail...
Discusses economic, social, and environmental trends...
The Trends that are Shaping Our Future
From meat consumption to automobile production to hydropower, Vital Signs, Volume 20 documents over two dozen trends that are shaping our future in co...
Just as people schedule regular check-ups with physicians, our planet needs regular check-ups to catch issues as early as possible, before they become...