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9780393317534: The World Watch Reader on Global Environmental Issues
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ISBN 10: 0393317536 ISBN 13: 9780393317534
Casa editrice: W. W. Norton & Company, 1998

Sinossi

A new collection of articles drawn from World Watch magazine, winner of an Utne Reader Alternative Press Award for investigative reporting. A collection of the best and most-requested articles from the Worldwatch Institute's award-winning magazine, World Watch. What ails the earth and how can we fix it? People all over the world are wrestling with this question, and requesting reliable information on the nature of the environmental threats and how to deal with them. The World Watch Reader responds to this need for timely, authoritative information. Written by the world's preeminent environmental research team, this new edition of the popular anthology offers an in-depth diagnosis of the earth's ills as well as a practical vision of how to create an environmentally responsible future. In a highly readable style, the authors focus on such topics as energy and climate, the effects of water scarcity, the food prospect, oceans in distress, and consumerism and the future of the earth. Here the global, interdisciplinary perspective that makes Worldwatch research unique is available in an accessible, compelling form. All who care about the future of the planet will want to read this volume.

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L'autore

Lester R. Brown, founder and president of the Worldwatch Institute, lives in Washington, D.C.

Product Description

This new edition of The World Watch Reader covers the most important mega-problems facing humanity at the outset of the new millennium: how to produce energy for electricity, transportation, and heat without causing dangerous disruptions to climate; how to reverse declining health of the oceans, forests, and freshwater resources on which our well-being absolutely depends; and what to do about the new social instabilities such as resurgent disease and rising refugee flows that result from environmental distress.

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Editore
W. W. Norton & Company
Data di pubblicazione
1998
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0393317536
ISBN 13 
9780393317534
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
360
Redattore
Brown Lester Russell
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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