Vital Signs 1999 - The Environmental Trends That Are Shaping Our Future

This annual volume from the Worldwatch Institute shows in graphic form key trends that often escape the attention of the news media, world leaders, and economic experts, but should be integrated into their plans as they map out our global future. Written by the staff of the award-winning Worldwatch Institute, this book allows readers to track key indicators that show social, economic, and environmental progress, or the lack of it. Their authoritative data have been distilled from thousands of documents obtained from government, industry, scientists, and international organizations into forty-five "vital signs" of our times. Vital Signs 1999 presents up-to-the-minute information on environmental and sustainable development topics such as global temperature, population growth, Internet use, fossil fuel consumption, grain production, and fish catch. Each trend is presented in both text and graphics, providing a thorough, well-documented, and very accessible overview. Vital Signs is an excellent companion volume to Worldwatch's highly acclaimed State of the World series.

About the author

The Worldwatch Institute is a Washington, DC-based nonprofit research and publishing organization dedicated to fostering the evolution of an environmentally sustainable society.

Product details

• Authors: Lester Russell Brown, Brian Halweil, Michael Renner
• Assisted by: Linda Starke (Editor)
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.1999
• EAN: 9780393318937
• ISBN: 978-0-393-31893-7
• No. of pages: 197
• Dimensions: 177 mm x 233 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 331 g
• Series: Vital Signs: The Environmental; Vital Signs: The Environmental
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology