Vital Signs
The global trends documented in Vital Signs 1997—from food supply to human health—will play a large role in determining the quality of our lives and our children's lives in the next decade.
This fifth edition of Vital Signs: The Trends That Are Shaping Our
Future will, we believe, be more useful than ever in allowing policymakers,
journalists, and academic researchers to chart and understand the major ecological,
economic, and social forces affecting the world. In 1996, we have included 33
key indicators, most of which present data from 1950 through 1995, and an
additional 12 special features.
The world is growing warmer, more crowded, and ecologically less stable,
according to Vital Signs 1995: The Trends That Are Shaping Our
Future,
a Worldwatch Institute report. In 1994, global temperature rose
from 15.20 degrees Celsius to 15.32 degrees. This
rise, equivalent to 0.22 degrees Fahrenheit, made 1994 the fifth warmest
year on record.
Vital Signs 1994 concisely presents the good news, the bad news, and some surprises about the health of our planet and civilization. The Institute's award-winning research team has culled information from around the globe to come up with 44 key indicators that best track change in our environmental, economic, and social health. Vital Signs 1994 analyzes each indicator—whether on food, carbon emissions, or the arms trade—in text and easy-to-read graphs.
Vital Signs 1993 concisely presents the good news, the bad news, and some surprises about the health of our planet and civilization. The Institute's award-winning research team has culled information from around the globe to come up with 42 key indicators that best track change in our environmental, economic, and social health. Vital Signs 1993 analyzes each indicator—whether on food or water, nuclear warheads or infant mortality—in words and easy-to-read graphs.
Vital Signs: The Trends That Are Shaping Our Future concisely presents the good news, the bad news, and some surprises about the health of our planet and civilization. The Worldwatch Institute's award-winning researchers have culled information from around the globe to come up with 36 key indicators that best track change in our environmental, economic, and social health. Vital Signs analyzes each indicator - whether on food or forests, nuclear warheads or infant mortality - in text and in easy-to-read graphs.
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