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Download full textBrown, Lester R.; Wolf, Edward C. – 1985
This paper highlights some of the themes that any successful strategy to reverse the decline of Africa must embrace. Africa is a continent experiencing a breakdown in the relationship between people and their natural support systems. Famine and the threat of famine are among the manifestations of this breakdown. This decline can be reversed. To do…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Conservation (Environment), Ecological Factors, Economic Factors
Brown, Lester R.; And Others – 1993
This tenth edition of "State of the World" is divided into ten sections, each written by a different author, concerning different environment related topics. Section one, titled "A New Era Unfolds," discusses the economic costs of environmental degradation, the slowing of growth in food output, the end of rapid gross national…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Conservation (Environment), Ecological Factors, Ecology
Brown, Lester R.; And Others – 1987
This book was developed to highlight the risks that confront societies, and to indicate the most promising avenues for preemptive policies and actions. The document contains chapters on: (1) the emergence of change; (2) analyzing demographic factors; (3) assessing the future of urbanization; (4) reassessing nuclear power (including an analysis of…
Descriptors: Air Pollution, Conservation (Environment), Demography, Depleted Resources
Brown, Lester R.; Jacobson, Jodi L. – 1987
Aside from the growth of world population itself, urbanization is the dominant demographic trend of the late twentieth century. The number of people living in cities increased from six hundred million in 1950 to over two billion in 1986. If this growth continues unabated, more than half of humanity will reside in urban areas shortly after the turn…
Descriptors: Demography, Depleted Resources, Developing Nations, Ecological Factors
Brown, Lester R.; And Others – 1986
The third of three annual assessments concentrating on the relationship between the world economy and its environmental support systems, this edition expands earlier themes on how economic demands of a world population approaching 5 billion affects the earth's natural systems and resources to embrace threats to security as well. The first of 11…
Descriptors: Agricultural Trends, Developed Nations, Developing Nations, Disarmament
Brown, Lester R. – 1978
The purpose of this book is to examine the interaction of the world's ecological, economic, and social systems. It is divided into 12 chapters, with the first chapter providing an introduction and overview. Chapter two assesses the dimensions of the ecological stresses being put on the environment, specifically, the world's oceans, forests,…
Descriptors: Birth Rate, Climate, Climate Control, Conservation (Environment)
