New partnerships for sustainable agriculture
The world's farmers face a major challenge achieving food security for 5.7 billion people while producing crops sustainably.
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The World Resources Report is the flagship publication of World Resources Institute. The inaugural edition, An Assessment of the Resource Base that Supports the Global Economy, was published in 1986. Subsequent editions have been published at regular intervals and have provided in-depth analyses of issues ranging from human health and the environment to climate change, ecosystem services and environmental governance. Every World Resources Report builds on a strong evidence base to develop fresh insights that can help decision-makers evaluate and implement the most effective solutions.
Creating a Sustainable Food Future
Sustainably feeding nearly 10 billion people by 2050 is possible – but it will require significant innovation and investment by the public and private sector.
Towards a More Equal City
The World Resources Report: Towards a More Equal City focuses on helping cities in rapidly urbanizing regions alter their development trajectories as demand for infrastructure and services grow.
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Profit without plunder
Reaping revenue from Guyana's tropical forests without destroying them
by -Guyana's abundant forest resources, encompassing 85 percent of its land area at the heart of the Guiana Shield, represent the largest remaining intact tropical forest frontier in the world.
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World Resources 1996-97
The Urban Environment
by , , and -World Resources 1996-97 is an authoritative primary reference volume on global environmental and natural resource conditions and trends for the United Nations, World Bank, and related international organizations.
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Transforming Technology
An Agenda for Environmentally Sustainable Growth in the 21st Century
by , and -Technology has contributed more than any other factor to increases in wealth and productivity. If channeled appropriately in the future, it could hold the key to environmental sustainability as well.
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Pesticides and the Immune System
The Public Health Risks
by -Although some pesticides have been restricted or banned because they pose risks of cancer, birth defects, or neurological damage, little attention has so far been given to what may be their greatest risk: impairment of human and animal immune systems.
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Bittersweet harvests for global supermarkets
Challenges in Latin America's agricultural export boom
by -Thanks to liberalized trade and development strategies with Latin America and the Caribbean, U.S. grocery stores now offer exotic fresh produce such as mangoes, raspberries, and snowpeas virtually year round.
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Green Ledgers
Case studies in corporate environmental accounting
by , , , , , , , , and -From the board room to the shop floor to the marketplace, business decisions are skewed when environmental costs are hidden. Common accounting practices hide these costs in two ways: by burying them in "non-environmental" accounts and by failing to link costs to the activities that spawn them.
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Growing Green
Enhancing Environmental and Economic Performance in U.S. Agriculture
by -Although the notion of sustainable agriculture is attracting considerable interest, little information has been available for evaluating current levels of agricultral sustainability in the United States or the policy options that will best promote it.
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Backs To The Wall in Suriname
Forest Policy in a Country in Crisis
by -Backs to the Wall outlines how Suriname's government could protect both forests and forest-dwelling communities.
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Jobs, Competitiveness and Environmental Regulation
What Are the Real Issues?
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Handing it over
An analysis of the legal and policy framework of community forestry in Nepal
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Second India Revisited
Population, Poverty and Environmental Stress Over Two Decades
by -In the late 1960s, when India's population stood at about 500 million, the Ford Foundation sponsored the Second India Study to investigate how that nation could cope with the inevitable doubling of its population by the year 2000. In "Second India" Revisited, Dr.
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World Resources 1994-95
People and the Environment
by -Widely recognized as a unique, authoritative asessment of the world's natural resource base, each World Resources report is a definitiave reference on the global environment with the latest information on essential economic, population, and natural resource conditions and trends
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Breaking the Logjam
Obstacles to forest policy reform in Indonesia and the United States
by , and -Tropical forests are vanishing at alarming rates throughout Africa, Asia, and Latin America, and their many contributions to huan welfare are being undermined. Despite increased efforts to stem deforestation, recent findings indicate that the problem is getting worse.
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Evaluating the carbon sequestration benefits of sustainable forestry projects in developing countries
by , and -Although the basic theory of carbon-offset forestry is relatively straightforward, devising a way to evaluate the carbon sequestration potential of particular forestry projects is much more complicated.
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Biodiversity Prospecting
Using Genetic Resources for Sustainable Development
by , , , , , , and -More than half the world's plant and animal species live in one tropical forest or another--and nowhere else on Earth. Coral reefs and other coastal ecosystems add hundreds of thousands, if not millions more species to the thin and variegated film of life that covers the globe.
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Surviving the Cut
Natural Forest Management in the Humid Tropics
by -As forests disappear at accelerating rates throughout the humid tropics, the search for effective conservation strategies has moved beyond establishing and maintaining protected areas.
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Green Guidance for Latin America and the Caribbean
by -Clarifies link between environment and development, identifies approaches and activities most likely to resolve problems, suggests ways to integrate environmental considerations in A.I.D. programs. Designed for A.I.D. Missions and developing countries.
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Green fees
How a tax shift can work for the environment and the economy
by , , and -In this report, Repetto and co-authors estimate the economic gains from shifting a significant chunk of the tax burden from income, profits, and payrolls onto congestion, pollution, and waste generation.
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