World on the edge Brown, Lester Russell
2011, 20120625, 2012-06-25, 20110101
eBook, Book
In this urgent time, World on the Edge calls out the pivotal environmental issues and how to solve them now.
We are in a race between political and natural tipping points. Can we close coal-fired ...power plants fast enough to save the Greenland ice sheet and avoid catastrophic sea level rise? Can we raise water productivity fast enough to halt the depletion of aquifers and avoid water-driven food shortages? Can we cope with peak water and peak oil at the same time? These are some of the issues Lester R. Brown skilfully distils in World on the Edge. Bringing decades of research and analysis into play, he provides the responses needed to reclaim our future.
In this study, the award-winning environmental analyst Lester Brown and his colleagues have charted progress in building the eco-economy - an economy in harmony with the Earth's ecosystems, not ...undermining them. This edition of the biennial reader highlights 12 key trends, from population growing by 80 million annually, to ice melting, to the boom in use of solar cells. It explains, for example, why wind-generated electricity is emerging as the foundation of the new post-fossil fuel energy economy. It also specifically investigates China's desertification problem, the issues surrounding food production, and the challenge of controlling climate change. Drawing on research and analysis by the Earth Policy Institute, the reader monitors the shift from the old economy to the new.
In this study, the award-winning environmental analyst Lester Brown and his colleagues have charted progress in building the eco-economy - an economy in harmony with the Earth's ecosystems, not ...undermining them. This edition of the biennial reader highlights 12 key trends, from population growing by 80 million annually, to ice melting, to the boom in use of solar cells. It explains, for example, why wind-generated electricity is emerging as the foundation of the new post-fossil fuel energy economy. It also specifically investigates China's desertification problem, the issues surrounding food production, and the challenge of controlling climate change. Drawing on research and analysis by the Earth Policy Institute, the reader monitors the shift from the old economy to the new.
Preface * Part I: Economic Costs of Ecological Deficits - Deserts Invading China * Assessing the Food Prospect * Facing the Climate Challenge * Part II: Eco-Economy Indicators: Twelve Trends to Track * Part III: Eco-Economy Updates - Energy and Climate * Population and Health * Food, Land and Water * Forests, Fisheries and Disappearing Species * Ecological Economics * Bibliography * Notes * Index
Lester R. Brown described by the Washington post as 'one of the world's most influential thinkers' is President of the Earth policy Institute and founder and former President of the Worldwatch Institute.
Janet Larsen and Bernie Fischlowitz-Roberts are both Researchers at the Earth Policy Institute.
'Recommended for facts on trends with some solutions.'
Fourth World Review
