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Overview
This annual volume, written by the staff of the award-winning Worldwatch Institute, gives prominence to key trends that too often escape the attention of the news media, world leaders, and economic experts. By distilling forty-five "vital signs" of our times from thousands of government, industrial, and scientific documents, this book allows readers to track key indicators that show social, economic, and environmental progress, or the lack of it. Vital Signs 2002 presents up-to-the-minute information on environmental and sustainable development topics such as global warming, population control, transgenic crops, HIV/AIDS, international trade, and Internet use. 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. Charts and graphs.Author Biography: The Worldwatch Institute is a Washington-based nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering the evolution of an environmentally sustainable society.
Editorials
Guardian
Its cool appraisal of our planet makes all other works of reference look trivial.KLIATT
This is the 11th volume in a valuable annual series that examines key developments affecting society and the environment. In Part One, trends are examined by topic: Food and Agricultural; Energy; Atmospheric; Economic; Transportation; Communications; Health and Social; Military. Within each section there are two-page spreads on various issues—for example, "Carbon Emissions Reach New High," "Mobile Phone Use Booms," "AIDS Passes 20-Year Mark"—with a succinct, statistics-studded essay analyzing the effects of these trends on the left-hand page and related tables and figures on the right. Extensive footnotes give sources. In Part Two, "Special Features," further topics are examined in similar fashion, from "Forest Loss Unchecked" to "Soda Consumption Grows" to "Sprawling Cities Have Global Effects." Useful for science and social studies classes, and for high school as well as public libraries. KLIATT Codes: SA—Recommended for senior high school students, advanced students, and adults. 2002, Norton, 216p. illus. notes.,— Paula Rohrlick
Book Details
Published
June 19, 2002
Publisher
New York : W.W. Norton, c2002.
Pages
215
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780393323153