State of the World 2001: A Worldwatch Institute Report on Progress Toward a Sustainable Society

Type

Book

Authors

Lester R. Brown

ISBN 10

0393320820

ISBN 13

9780393320824

Tags

Economic Conditions, Environmental Economics, Ecology, Environmental Science, Conservation, Environmentalism, Political Economy, Environmental Studies, Political Science

Description

The Worldwatch Institute's research team tackles the great challenge of our rapidly globalizing world: how to use our political systems to manage the difficult and complex relationships between the global economy and the Earth's ecosystems. This book provides concerned citizens and national leaders with an analysis of threatening environmental trends - from the growing pollution of groundwater to the increasing toll of "unnatural" disasters to the effects of the developing world's staggering 2 trillion dollar debt - and emerging solutions to turn those trends around. - from Amzon

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