Reports
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Worldwatch Paper #115: Global Network: Computers in a Sustainable SocietySeptember 1993 Faster, cheaper computers, better programs, and rapidly expanding international computer networks are becoming extraordinary tools for environmental protection and sustainable development, according to the author of Global Network: Computers in a Sustainable Society. Computers have made it possible to model the effects of air pollution... |
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Worldwatch Paper #114: Critical Juncture: The Future of PeacekeepingMay 1993 The collapse of Bosnia, far from being a unique horror, may presage many other post-Cold War conflicts unless the international community rapidly strengthens its peacekeeping machinery, concludes Critical Juncture: The Future of Peacekeeping, a study from the Worldwatch Institute, a policy research group based in Washington, D.C. "The... |
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Worldwatch Paper #113: Costly Tradeoffs: Reconciling Trade and the EnvironmentMarch 1993 World trade--growing far faster than the global economy itself--is an engine that currently accelerates the environmental degradation caused by unsustainable economic activity. But it also has the power to pull the world onto an environmentally sustainable track--if environmental protection is included in the evolving rules of international... |
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Worldwatch Paper #112: Guardians of the Land: Indigenous Peoples and the Health of the EarthDecember 1992 Human cultures, like plant and animal species, are becoming extinct at unprecedented rates. In addition, the fates of cultural and biological diversity are closely linked, reports a new study from the Worldwatch Institute. Of the world's 6,000 languages--representing approximately the same number of cultures--half will likely disappear... |
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Worldwatch Paper #111: Empowering Development: The New Energy EquationNovember 1992 |
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Worldwatch Paper #110: Gender Bias: Roadblock to Sustainable DevelopmentSeptember 1992 |
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Worldwatch Paper #109: Mining the EarthJuly 1992 |
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Worldwatch Paper #108: Life Support: Conserving Biological DiversityApril 1992 Biological diversity—the ecosystems, species, and genes that together constitute the living world—is complex beyond our understanding, and valuable beyond our ability to measure. But it is clear that this diversity is collapsing at rates that can only be described as mind-boggling. Difficult as it is to accept, mass extinction has already... |
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Worldwatch Paper #107: After the Earth Summit: The Future of Environmental GovernanceMarch 1992 |
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Worldwatch Paper #106: Nuclear Waste: The Problem That Won't Go AwayDecember 1991 |