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| Acknowledgments | vii | |
| List of Tables and Figures | xiii | |
| Foreword | xvii | |
| 1 | Challenges of the New Century | 3 |
| Environmental Trends Shaping the New Century | ||
| Replacing Economics with Ecology | ||
| Crossing the Sustainability Threshold | ||
| Crossing the Decline Threshold | ||
| Two Keys to Regaining Control of Our Destiny | ||
| 2 | Anticipating Environmental "Surprise" | 22 |
| Tropical Rainforests: The Inferno Beneath the Canopy | ||
| Coral: Death in the Warming Seas | ||
| The Atmosphere: An Invisible Confluence of Poisons | ||
| An Agenda for the Unexpected | ||
| 3 | Redesigning Irrigated Agriculture | 39 |
| Mounting Water Deficits | ||
| The New Water Wars | ||
| The Productivity Frontier | ||
| Expanding Irrigation to Poor Farmers | ||
| The Policy Challenge | ||
| 4 | Nourishing the Underfed and Overfed | 59 |
| A Malnourished World | ||
| The Roots of Hunger | ||
| The Creation of Overeating | ||
| Diet and Health | ||
| Societal Costs of Poor Diet | ||
| Nutrition First | ||
| 5 | Phasing Out Persistent Organic Pollutants | 79 |
| The World of POPs | ||
| Routes of Exposure and Environmental Fate | ||
| Health Consequences | ||
| The Policy Response to POPs | ||
| Retooling Regulations, Business, and Agriculture | ||
| 6 | Recovering the Paper Landscape | 101 |
| The Paper Landscape | ||
| Uncovering the Costs of Paper | ||
| Reducing the Burden of Production | ||
| Trimming the Costs of Consumption | ||
| Designing a Sustainable Paper Economy | ||
| 7 | Harnessing Information Technologies for the Environment | 121 |
| An Expanding Global Network | ||
| Squandering or Saving Natural Resources? | ||
| Monitoring and Modeling | ||
| Networking for Sustainable Development | ||
| Information Tools for a Healthy Planet | ||
| 8 | Sizing Up Micropower | 142 |
| Miniaturized Machines | ||
| Cool Power | ||
| Is Smaller Better? | ||
| Remaking Market Rules | ||
| How Far, How Fast? | ||
| 9 | Creating Jobs, Preserving the Environment | 162 |
| The World of Work | ||
| Boosting Resource Productivity | ||
| Environment Policy: Job Killer or Creator? | ||
| Restructuring Energy, Creating Jobs | ||
| Durability and Remanufacturing | ||
| Shifting Taxes | ||
| Rethinking Work | ||
| 10 | Coping with Ecological Globalization | 184 |
| Trading on Nature | ||
| The WTO Meets the Environment | ||
| Greening the International Financial Architecture | ||
| Innovations in Global Environmental Governance | ||
| Notes | 203 | |
| Index | 263 |
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Michael Johnson
reviewed State Of The World 2000 on September 17, 2010
State Of The World 2000
Too much too fast too furious. Someone call The Rock.
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