From rising meat and seafood production to changes in the climate, Vital Signs 2010 documents 24 trends that are shaping our future and includes concise analyses and clear graphs.
This seventeenth edition of the Worldwatch Institute series shows that climate change continues to cast a long shadow over the world’s leading economic, social, and environmental trends.
Some of the trends revealed are:
Carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels were up 2 percent, despite high oil prices and the economic recession.
The most devastating types of natural disasters continued to rise steadily, especially for weather-related events.
Meat consumption in the developing world has increased 17 percent over the last 10 years, although people in the industrial world still eat more than twice as much meat per person.
Grain yields have increased 146 percent over the last 46 years, even though the land dedicated to grain has remained relatively stable for the past 15 years.
Aquaculture continued to expand, with exports for species like catfish and tilapia growing at more than 50 percent a year.
With an annual subscription to Vital Signs Online, you’ll get:
Unlimited access to more than 30 sustainability trends in five categories: Food & Agriculture; Energy & Transportation; Environment & Climate; Global Economy & Resources; and Population & Society
Worldwatch’s highly respected, clear analysis providing global context for each trend
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Vital Signs 2009 includes 25 trends in one convenient reference guide. Covers pressing trends in energy, agriculture, transportation, climate, health, the economy, population, and other areas to inform and inspire the changes needed to build a sustainable world.
This sixteenth volume of Worldwatch’s Vital Signs series makes it clear that climate change is both a growing driver of and an increasingly important motivator behind the world’s leading economic, social, and environmental trends.
"Vital Signs...provides the most straightforward and reliable environmental, economic, and social information available on the entire planet Earth. Vital Signs delivers...facts illuminated by contexts and interconnections, often revealing causes of the problems, and pointing the way towards solutions that work." —Michael Pastore, Epublishers Weekly
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With an annual subscription to Vital Signs Online, you’ll get:
Unlimited access to more than 30 sustainability trends in five categories: Food & Agriculture; Energy & Transportation; Environment & Climate; Global Economy & Resources; and Population & Society
Worldwatch’s highly respected, clear analysis providing global context for each trend
Presentation-ready charts and graphs that can be customized
Excel spreadsheets that allow data manipulation for instructional and comparative purposes according to personal or organizational needs
This report tracks and analyzes 44 trends that are shaping our future, and includes graphs and charts to provide a visual comparison over time. Categories of trends include: Food, Agricultural Resources, Energy and Climate, Global Economy, Resource Economics, Environment, Conflict and Peace, Communications and Transportation, Population and Society, and Health and Disease.
Contains 23 new trends in this edition and 21 updated trends. Order your hard copy or download your PDF today!
"Vital Signs... provides the most straightforward and reliable environmental, economic, and social information available on the entire planet Earth." -ePublishers Weekly
This report tracks and analyzes 44 trends that are shaping our future, and includes graphs and charts to provide a visual comparison over time. Categories of trends include: Food, Agricultural Resources, Energy and Climate, Global Economy, Resource Economics, Environment, War and Conflict, Communications and Transportation, Population and Society, and Health and Disease.
This much-anticipated edition of Vital Signs covers 35 global trends that are shaping our future. From carbon emissions to loss of wetlands, each trend provides a brief status report on the topic plus graphs and charts that offer a visual comparison over time. Categories include Food, Economics, Transportation, Health, Governance, Energy and Climate, and Conflict and Peace.
“Vital Signs does for the environment
what stock market indicators do for the City
[in London]. But it says more about the future
of our
world than the FTSE [Financial Times Stock Exchange]
ever can.” BBC Wildlife Magazine
Vital Signs 2002 provides comprehensive,
user-friendly information on key trends. Using tables
and graphs readers can assess the developments that
are changing their lives for better or for worse.
The global trends documented in Vital Signs 2001—from the rapid increase in the use of wind power to the continued warming of the planet—will play a large role in determining the quality of our lives and our children's lives in this new century.
The global trends documented in Vital Signs 2000--from the rapid rise in the sales of energy-efficient compact fluorescent lamps to the worldwide overpumping of growndwater--will play a large role in determining the quality of our lives and our children's lives in the next decade.
The global trends documented in Vital Signs 1999--from a decline in nuclear power generating capacity to the proliferation of genetically modified crops--will play a large part in determining the quality of our lives and our children's lives in the next decade.
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