In The Coming Famine, Julian Cribb lays out a vivid picture of impending planetary crisis--a global food shortage that threatens to hit by mid-century--that would dwarf any in our previous experience. Cribb's comprehensive assessment describes a dangerous confluence of shortages--of water, land,...

Providing a thorough examination of the threats posed to destinations by tourism, this comprehensive text discusses how popular and fragile destinations such as the Great Barrier Reef could become severely damaged and forced to close to tourists if current tourism trends continue. The...

The threat posed by climate change has not yet been matched by international agreements and economic policies that can deliver sharp reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions. Although the Kyoto Protocol has now been ratified by Russia and hence come into legal effect, the USA, China, and India are...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- 1 One Vision of the Year 2050 -- 2 The New World of Population Policy -- 3 Putting Cairo to Work -- 4 U.S. Population Activism in the New Century -- 5 A Warming World -- 6 International Climate-Change Negotiations -- 7 Creating a Stable Atmosphere...

Die vorliegende Studie bedient sich der Divisia-Dekompositionsmethode für die Untersuchung der Eigenschaften von Kohlendioxidemissionen in den Fertigungssektoren Brasiliens, Chinas, Indiens und Mexikos von 1985 bis 2005. Eine Datenbank wurde hierfür mit Daten zum Mehrwert und zu den...