State of the world
Subtitle: 1997
By: Lester R. Brown, project director ; Linda Starke, editor
Contributors: Worldwatch Institute
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: State of the world -- 1997; State of the world library
Publisher: Norton
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9780393315691
Subjects: Economic history; Environmental policy; Sustainable development
Description: "In this edition, [the authors] take a realistic look at our progress toward sustainable development since the 1992 Rio Earth Summit. They find that some gains have been made in sustainability planning and in implementing the international convention to protect the stratospheric ozone layer, but that on balance the planet's broad trends of environmental and resource degradation persist."--Back cover.
Notes: "A Worldwatch Institute report on progress toward a sustainable society."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [173-218) and index.
Table of contents: title: The legacy of Rio / by Christopher Flavin; title: Facing the prospect of food scarcity / by Lester R. Brown; title: Preserving global cropland / by Gary Gardner; title: Preventing chronic disease in developing countries / by Anne Platt McGinn; title: Tracking the ecology of climate change / by Chris Bright; title: Valuing nature's services / by Janet N. Abramovitz; title: Transforming security / by Michael Renner; title: Reforming subsidies / by David Malin Roodman; title: Learning from the ozone experience / by Hilary F. French.