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Book SynopsisFirst Published in 1998. In this seventh annual edition of VITAL SIGNS the team at the Worldwatch Institute bring together an eclectic selection of disparate trends to offer a unique, multifaceted view of our rapidly changing world. This vital resource and reference guide traces the scientific, social, economic and environmental trends that have and continue to shape our world. Among the trends covered for the first time in VITAL SIGNS 1998-99, are frontier forests, plantation forestry, satellite launches, minerals exploration, small arms proliferation and female education. This year's edition points out that global emissions of carbon, the leading contributor to global climate change, hit another new high, while wind power has grown an amazing 26 per cent per year, and sales of solar cells jumped a phenomenal 43 per cent in 1997. VITAL SIGNS is the most comprehensive source of environmental and social information available.
Table of ContentsFood trends; agricultural resource trends; energy trends; atmospheric trends; economic trnds; transportation trends; communications trends; social trends; military trends; forest frontiers; forest plantations; vertebrate trends; recycling organic wasts; nitrogen levels; urban air pollution; private capital flows; tax shifts; fossil fuel subsidies; paper recycling; cigarette taxes; minerals exploration; environmental markets; female education; sanitation; small arms proliferation. (Part contents.)
