The Environment Since 1970
…is reported by the World Bank in, the annual World Development Report, (New York: Oxford University Press). Urban and rural populations are disaggregated in the United Nations Development Programme’s annual…
…is reported by the World Bank in, the annual World Development Report, (New York: Oxford University Press). Urban and rural populations are disaggregated in the United Nations Development Programme’s annual…
…Sources (rounded estimates): 6000 B.C., World Conservation Monitoring Centre, World Resources Institute, and World Commission on Forests and Sustainable Developments; 1990’s, U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization Global Fibre Supply Model…
…quantities, Review of Economic Studies 41:477-491. World Bank, 1992, World Development Report 1992: Development and the Environment, Oxford University Press, New York, NY. World Energy Council (WEC), 1992, Draft Summary Global Report, WEC…
…food webs, limiting factors, energy and material budgets) and rules (e.g., Cope’s rule that increase in body size confers adaptive advantages, the least work principle). Also valuable might be an…
…Bank, the World Wildlife Fund, Council on Foreign Relations, and Rockefeller University joined in a Great Restoration project to develop an attractive and feasible vision for the world’s forests. The…
…world’s food supply has continued to outpace population, especially in poor countries. Per hectare, farmers lifted world grain yields 2.1 percent annually between 1960-1996. Frontiers for even more agricultural improvement…
…American diet could allow cropland the area of Australia to revert to wilderness. Per hectare, annual world grain yields in fact rose 2.15 percent 1960-1994. If dynamics continue as usual,…
…MacCleery, D. W. 1992. American forests: A history of resiliency and recovery. USDA Forest Service Report FS-540. Malenbaum, W. 1978. World demand for raw materials in 1985 and 2000. New York:…
…20 from fish farms and ranches. Although the world eats relatively more fish than Americans, the world consumption of 80 million tons of fish from the sea that depletes the…
…comment. Most obviously, the Russian Revolution and World War II literally drove Russians back into the woods to collect their fuel. Yet, these extreme shocks were later absolutely absorbed. By…