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Environmental Crisis and News (cont.)

General
Global Change
State of the World

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State of the World

Saving the planet is not a spectator sport.

Lester R. Brown

Our ability and inclination to enrich the present at the expense of the future, and of other species, is as real and as sinful as our tendency to further enrich the wealthy at the expense of the poor.

Herman E. Daly

Assessment of the World Food Security Situation (FAO Committee on World Food Security, Rome, 23-26 May 2005)

TheBestWeKnow | Our Current Knowledge (Gene Shackman et al.)

Bill Moyers Reports: Earth on Edge (PBS, 19 Jun 2001)

BreathingEarth (David Bleja)

BrightEarth (Declan Butler et al.)

Canada and the State of the Planet (CGCP)

Canadian Association for the Club of Rome

Charter 99: A Charter for Global Democracy

Child Poverty in Rich Nations, A League Table of
(UNICEF Innocenti Report Card 1, Jun 2000) PDF

The Climax of Humanity (George Musser, Introduction to Special Issue on "Crossroads for Planet Earth," Scientific American 293:3:44-7, Sep 2005)

The Club of Budapest International

The Club of Rome (Hamburg)

The Club of Rome - European Support Centre (Vienna)

Commentaries: Planetary boundaries (Nature Reports Climate Change 3:112-19, Oct 2009)

Comprehensive Report on the Outcome of the World Summit for Social Development (United Nations) PDF

Council on Global Issues

The Doomsday Clock (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Chicago)

Earth: A Graphic Look at the State of the World (The Global Education Project, Mansons Landing, BC)

Earth Policy Institute (Lester Brown et al.)

EarthTrends: The Environmental Information Portal
(World Resources Institute)

An Earth Without People (Steve Mirsky, Interview with Alan Weisman, Scientific American 297:1:76-81, Jul 2007)

-- A Conversation with Alan Weisman (Pam Steffey, Forecast Earth, 18 Sep 2007)

Ecological Footprints of Nations (Mathis Wackernagel et al.)

Europe's Plan to Simulate the Entire Planet (The Physics arXiv Blog, Technology Review, 30 Apr 2010)

The FAO Global Information and Early Warning System (GIEWS)

Finfacts Worldwide Cost of Living Survey 2001

From Social Data Mining to Forecasting Socio-Economic Crisis (Dirk Helbing & Stefano Balietti, arXiv:1012.0178 [cs.CY], 1 Dec 2010, revised)

FuturICT: FuturIcT (ETH, Zurich)

The FuturIcT Knowledge Accelerator: Unleashing the Power of Information for a Sustainable Future (Dirk Helbing, arXiv:1004.4969 [physics.soc-ph], 28 Apr 2010, revised)

GEO: Global Environment Outlook (UNEP Global State of the Environment Report)

GEO-1 (UNEP's Global Environment Outlook-1, 1997)

GEO-2: Global Environment Outlook 2000

GEO-3: Global Environment Outlook 3 (2002)

GEO-4: Global Environment Outlook 2007: environment for development (United Nations Environment Programme, 28 Sep 2007)

-- Planet's Tougher Problems Persist, UN Report Warns (UNEP Press Release, 25 Oct 2007)

-- Unsustainable development 'puts humanity at risk' (Catherine Brahic, New Scientist, 25 Oct 2007)

-- Lots of Ink: UN Environment Program hasn't much good to say about our giant population and our planetary stewardship (Knight Science Journalism Tracker, 26 Oct 2007)

Global Analysis, Integration, and Modelling (GAIM, International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme)

Global Biodiversity Outlook (Convention on Biological Diversity)

Global Challenges for Humanity (AC/UNU Millennium Project, 2006 State of the Future)

Global Deserts Outlook (United Nations Environment Programme, 5 Jun 2006)

Global Economic Crisis (ZNet)

Global Environment Facility (GEF) WebSite

The Global Environment Information Centre

Global Environment Outlook (GEO, UN Enivornment Programme, Nairobi)

Global Food Crisis (ReliefWeb)

Global Food Crisis (USAID)

Global Food Crisis (Washington Post)

Global Food Security (ERS/USDA Briefing Room)

Global Food Security Crisis, The Secretary General's High Level Task Force on the (United Nations)

Global Future Studies & Research (The Millennium Project)

Global Inventory Project (G7)

-- Canadian Initiatives on Networks Clearing House (G7 GIP Host)

Global Inventory Modeling & Mapping Studies
(GIMMS Group, NASA Goddard SFC)

GlobalIssues.org | Global Issues That Affect Everyone (ed. Anup Shah)

Global Knowledge 97 (The World Bank)

A Global Map of Human Impacts to Marine Ecosystems (National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California, Santa Barbara)

Global Monitoring (World Bank)

Global Monitoring Report 2006 (World Bank/International Monetary Fund, Washington, DC, Apr 2006)

Global Monitoring Report 2007 (World Bank/International Monetary Fund, Washington, DC, 13 Apr 2007)

Global Policy Forum

Global Resources (Union of Concerned Scientists)

Global Sustainability: A Nobel Cause (1st Interdisciplinary Symposium, Potsdam, 8-10 Oct 2007)

-- Sustainability: A Nobel Cause (Stefan Rahmstorf, RealClimate, 9 Oct 2007)

-- A Climate Meeting With Nobel Laureates (Mark Landler, New York Times, 11 Oct 2007)

Global Symposium 2011 | Transforming the World in an Era of Global Change (3rd Nobel Laureate Symposium on Global Sustainability, Stockholm, Sweden, 16-19 May 2011)

-- The Stockholm Memorandum: Tipping the Scales toward Sustainability (18 May 2011) PDF

-- Nobel Laureates Speak Out (Stefan Rahmstorf et al., RealClimate, 21 May 2011)

Global Systems Centre (Canadian Association for the Club of Rome)

Global Trends Menu (UN CyberSchoolBus)

Global 200 Endangered Regions (National Geographic Online Eco-Map)

Globastat - Country Rankings and World Statistics

GLOBIO: Mapping Human Impacts on the Biosphere
(UNEP/GRID-Arendal)

Growth and Responsibility in the World Economy (G8 Summit Declaration, Heiligendamm, 7 Jun 2007) PDF

Groundwater and Its Susceptibility to Degradation: A Global Assessment of the Problem and Options for Management (Brian Adams et al., UNEP Division of Early Warning and Assessment, 4 Jun 2003)

GSReport - The Global Situation Report
(ed. Michael Lindemann, 2020 Group)

The Happy Planet Index: An index of human well-being and environmental impact (Friends of the Earth)

The Happy Planet Index: An index of human well-being and environmental impact (New Economics Foundation, 12 Jul 2006) PDF

Human Development Report Office (UNDP)

-- Past Human Development Reports

-- Human Development Report 1998

-- Human Development Report 1999 (12 Jul 1999)

-- Human Development Report 2000

-- Human Development Report 2001 (10 Jul 2001)

-- Human Development Report 2002

-- Human Development Report 2003

-- Human Development Report 2004

-- Human Development Report 2005

-- Human Development Report 2006 (9 Nov 2006)

-- Human Development Report 2007/2008 (Dec 2007)

IIASA - International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (Laxenburg, Austria)

-- Working Papers (IDEAS)

IMF World Economic Outlook Reports List
(International Monetary Fund)

The Inequality Predicament: Report on the World Social Situation 2005
(DESA, United Nations, 25 Aug 2005) PDF

Inheriting the world: The atlas of children's health and the environment (Bruce Gordon et al., World Health Organization, 2004)

International Energy Outlook (U.S. Energy Information Administration)

Journey to Planet Earth: State of the Planet's Wildlife
(Marilyn & Hal Weiner, PBS, 18 Apr 2006)

Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (United Nations, 30 Mar 2005)

NERC Data Grid (National Environment Research Council, UK)

The North American Mosaic : A State of the Environment Report
(North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation, 7 Jan 2002)

One Planet Many People: Atlas of Our Changing Environment
(UNEP, 2006)

Our Changing Planet FY 1999

Overcoming Human Poverty (UNDP Poverty Report)

Pacific Region State of the Ocean (Ocean Status Reports, Pacific Scientific Advice Review Committee, Fisheries and Oceans Canada)

People and Ecosystems: The Fraying Web of Life (WRI, 15 Sep 2000)

People and the planet (Royal Society, 26 Apr 2012)

-- Royal Society Calls for Redistribution of Wealth and More Birth Control to Save the Planet (David Biello, Observations, Scientific American Blog Network, 26 Apr 2012)

Planetary Boundaries: Exploring the Safe Operating Space for Humanity (Johan Rockstroem et al., Ecology and Society 14:2, Article 32, 2009)

The Progress of Canada's Children 1999-2000 (CCSD)

The Progress of Nations 1995

The Progress of Nations 1996

The Progress of Nations 1997

The Progress of Nations 1998

The Progress of Nations 1999

The Progress of Nations 2000

Ranking of the World's Oil and Gas Provinces by Known Petroleum Volumes (T. R. Klett et al., USGS Open-File Report 97-463)

Resources of the Week -- Keeping Tabs on the Global Food Crisis (Shirl Kennedy, ResourceShelf, 2 Jun 2008)

The 70 Online Databases that Define Our Planet (The Physics arXiv Blog, Technology Review, 3 Dec 2010)

State of the Climate (WWF)

The State of Food and Agriculture 2000 (FAO)

The State of Food and Agriculture 2006 (FAO, Rome, 2006)

The State of Food Insecurity in the World 1999 (FAO) PDF

The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2003 (FAO) PDF

The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2005 (FAO) PDF

The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2006
(FAO, Rome, 30 Oct 2006)

The State of Food Insecurity in the World: Addressing food insecurity in protracted crises (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, 2010) PDF

-- FAO publication page

State of the Future | Global Futures Studies & Research by the Millennium Project (AC/UNU)

State of the Future Index (SOFI) Survey (AC/UNU Millennium Project)

State of the Global Environment (UNEP)

State of the Pacific Ocean 2004 (Ocean Status Report 2005, Pacific Scientific Advice Review Committee, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, 7 Jul 2005) PDF

State of the Pacific Ocean 2005 (Fisheries and Oceans Canada, 7 Jun 2006) PDF

State of the Reefs (Stephen C. Jameson et al., 1995)

The State of the World - Facts and Statistics on Global Issues

State of the World Forum

State of the World reports (Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex)

State of the World 1995 (Lester R. Brown et al., Worldwatch Institute)

State of the World 1996

State of the World 1997

State of the World 1998

State of the World 1999

State of the World 2000

State of the World 2002

State of the World 2003

State of the World 2004

State of the World 2005

State of the World 2011 (Bruce Sterling & Jon Lebkowsky, The WELL, Jan 2011)

State of the World's Birds (BirdLife International)

The State of the World's Children 1996 (UNICEF)

The State of the World's Children 1997

The State of the World's Children 1998

The State of the World's Children 1999

The State of the World's Children 2000

The State of the World's Children 2001

The State of the World's Children 2002

The State of the World's Children 2003

The State of the World's Children 2004

The State of the World's Children 2005

The State of the World's Children 2006

The State of the World's Children 2007

The State of the World's Children 2008

The State of the World's Children 2008

State of the World's Forests (FAO - Forestry)

The State of the World's Human Rights (Annual Report, Amnesty International USA, Washington, DC)

State of the World's Mothers 2005: The Power and Promise of Girls' Education (Save the Children, Westport, Connecticut)

State of the World's Mothers 2006: Saving the Lives of Mothers and Newborns (Save the Children, Westport, Connecticut) PDF

The State of The World's Refugees: Human Displacement in the New Millennium (ed. Nada Merheb & Sean Loughna et al., London, Oxford UP for UNHCR, 19 Apr 2006)

Stockholm Resilience Centre: Research for Governance of Social-Ecological Systems (Stockholm University)

Third World Network (TWN)

Toward the Earth System Modeling Framework
(James R. Fischer, ESS Project 6 Jun 2001)

Trendalyzer: Visualizing the Millennium Development Goals (UN)

The Trilateral Commission

2006 Global Hunger Index: A Basis for Cross-Country Comparisons (International Food Policy Research Institute, 13 Oct 2006)

2010 Global Hunger Index (IFPRI, International Food Policy Research Institute)

2011 Global Hunger Index: The Challenge of Hunger: Taking Price Spikes and Excessive Food Price Volatility (IFRI, 20 Sep 2011) PDF

UNdata

UNDP Human Development Index vs Internet Hosts/Capita

UNDP - United Nations Development Programme

-- Human Development Report Office (HDRO)

UNEP/GRID-Arendal Database: Maps and Graphics

UNEP/GRID-Arendal: State of Environment Reports

UNESCO and the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)

United Nations Global Issues

United Nations System-Wide Earthwatch (UNEP)

-- New York Mirror

VISIONEER: VISIONEER: Envisioning a Socio Economic Knowledge Collider (ETH, Zurich)

Vision of Humanity (Global Peace Index)

We the Peoples: The Role of the United Nations in the 2st Century (Millennium Report of the Secretary-General, 2000)

World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE)
(OSDA Office of the Chief Economist)

World Culture Report (UNESCO)

World Database of Happiness (Ruut Veenhoven)

World Data Center System (Chilton, UK)

The World Data Center System (Moscow)

World Data Center System (USA Home, NGDC, Boulder)

World Development Indicators 2006 (World Bank, Washington, DC, 2006)

World Development Reports (World Bank)

The World Distribution of Household Wealth (James B. Davies et al., World Institute for Development Economics Research, 5 Dec 2006) PDF

World Economic and Social Survey (United Nations)

World Economic Situation and Prospects
(UN World Economic and Social Survey)

World Employment Report 2001: Life at Work in the Information Economy (International Labour Office)

World Energy Assessment (UNDP)

World Energy Assessment: Energy and the Challenge of Sustainability
(WEA Second Drafts, UNDP, 2001)

World Energy Outlook Homepage (International Energy Agency, Paris)

-- World Energy Outlook 2008 (12 Nov 2008)

-- World Energy Outlook 2008 (Richard Jones, IEA, Special Address, PETROTECH 2009, New Delhi, 14 Jan 2009) PDF

-- World Energy Outlook 2009 (10 Nov 2009)

World Energy Outlook 2008: Implications for post-2012 climate scenarios (Barbara K. Buchner, IEA, Lunch Seminar, University College Dublin, 19 Mar 2009) PDF

World Energy Project - World and Regional Assessment Summaries
(USGS Central Region Energy Resources Team)

World Factbook (CIA)

World Food Situation (FAO)

World Health News (Harvard School of Public Health)

World Health Report

World Information Society Report 2006 (International Telecommunication Union/UN Conference on Trade and Development, Geneva, Aug 2006) PDF

World Information Society Report 2007: Beyond WSIS (ITU/UNCTAD, Geneva, May 2007) PDF

Worldometers (Real Time Statistics Project)

World Petroleum Assessment (USGS, Energy Resources Program)

World Policy Institute

World Problems and Global Issues Project (UIA)

World Resources Institute (Washington, DC)

World Resources Report 2000-2001 (World Resources Institute)

World Resources 2002-2004: Decisions for the Earth: Balance, Voice, and Power (WRI)

World Resources 2005: The Wealth of the Poor -- Managing Ecosystems to Fight Poverty (World Resources Institute, Washington, DC, 2005) PDF

World Summit on Food Security: World Summit (Rome, 16-18 Nov 2009)

The World's Water (Pacific Institute)

The World's Women 2000: Trends and Statistics(UN Statistics Division, 31 May 2000)

The World's Youth 2000 (Anne Boyd et al., Population Reference Bureau, 2001)

World Values Survey (Ronald Inglehart et al.)

Worldwatch Institute Home Page (Lester R. Brown et al.)

Worldwatch -- State of the World Web Resources

Worldwide Universities Network (WUN)

WSIS | World Summit on the Information Society (Geneva 2003 - Tunis 2005)

-- Geneva 2003

-- WSIS-Online (Community Platform)

WWF Living Planet Report (World Wildlife Fund)

See also Future Studies, Global Change, Global Community, Global Trade and Economic Security, Social & Economic Policy and Development, and Technological Change and Development

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ACPD Action Canada for Population and Development

Ageing and Welfare Systems: What Have we Learned? A Comparative EU-US Perspective (Centre d'Etudes Prospectives et d'Informations Internationales, Brussels, 24-25 Jan 2003)

Beyond Six Billion: Forecasting the World's Population (ed. John Bongaarts & Rodolfo A. Bulatao, NRC Panel on Population Projections, 2000)

Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA)

CIAR Population Health Program (Canadian Institute for Advanced Research)

CNIE's Population/Environment Linkages Service

Controlling Growth in Our Communities: A Portal for Activists in North America Who Want to Limit Overdevelopment and Growth (Robert Fireovid et al.)

Could It Happen Again? Long-Term Growth as a Sequence of Exponential Modes (Robin Hanson)

Day of 6 Billion! World Population (PAI)

Die Off - A Population Crash Resource Page (Tom Robertson)

The Dieoff Q&A (Jay Hanson, Yahoo! Groups)

ECES - Overpopulation and the Problems of Technology
(Earth Crash Earth Spirit)

The end of world population growth (Nature Feature of the Week, 2 Aug 2001)

The end of world population growth (Wolfgang Lutz et al., Nature 412:543-5, 2 Aug 2001)

Facing The Future: People and the Planet

The Geopolitics of World Population Change (Richard Jackson & Rebecca Strauss, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, DC, 10 Jul 2007) PDF

Global Demography of Aging (David E. Bloom et al., Harvard School of Public Health)

GlobalIssues.org | Population

Global Shifts in Population -- The Coming Pressures of Immigration
(RAND Policy Brief, 2000)

The Great Filter - Are We Almost Past It? (Robin Hanson, 15 Sep 1998)

Historical Estimates of World Population

Human Population Growth (American Humanist Association)

Hunger Theme Page (CLN)

The HungerWeb (Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University)

ICPD+5 (United Nations Population Fund)

IIASA - Population Project (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis)

Long-Term Global Demographic Trends: Reshaping the Geopolitical Landscape (CIA, Jul 2001) PDF

Making a World Population of 6 Billion: A Collection of Online Resources
(US National Council for Science and the Environment)

The Miniature Earth (Allysson Lucca et al.)

Nature's Place: Human Population and the Future of Biological Diversity
(Richard Cincotta & Robert Engleman, Feb 2000)

NGO Forum Website

NOVA | World in the Balance (Sarah Holt et al., PBS, 20 Apr 2004)

Online Population and Environment Linkages Service
(US National Council for Science and the Environment)

Optimum Population Trust (London)

Over-Population Theme Page (CLN)

Pan Earth

Paul Ehrlich and The Population Bomb (PBS)

POPClocks (U.S. Census Bureau)

POPIN Home Page (UN Population Information Network)

-- POPIN Gopher

-- World Demographic Trends

PopNet: The Source for Global Population Information
(Population Reference Bureau)

Population Action International

Population and Reproductive Health (Development Gateway)

Population and Sustainable Development (Global Science Panel on Population and Environment - 16 July 2001, The Hague)

Population at UCS (Union of Concerned Scientists)

Population Challenges and Development Goals (United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, New York, 2005) PDF

Population.com (WorldNews.com)

The Population Council

Population Counter -- Country Index (MSU EMuseum)

Population Education (Washington, DC)

The Population Institute (Werner Fornos et al.)

Population Matters (RAND)

PopulationMondiale.com - World Population Clock

Population Reference Bureau (Washington, DC)

Population Resource Letter

Progress & Promises: Trends in International Assistance for Reproductive Health and Population (Population Action International, Washington, DC, Mar 2005)

Report of the International Workshop on Population-Poverty-Environment Linkages (IUCN, 23-25 Sep 1998) PDF

Requiem (Jay Hanson, Brain Food, 20 Feb. 1998)

Sierra Club - Global Population Stabilization Campaign Home Page

Six Billion and Beyond: Population in the New Millennium (PBS Online)

6 Billion Human Beings (Musée de l'Homme)

The State of World Population (UNFPA)

Total Midyear Population for the World: 1950-2050 (U.S. Census Bureau)

2009 World Population Data Sheet (Population Reference Bureau, 6 Aug 2009) PDF

United Nations 1998 Revision of the World Population Estimates and Projections (UN Population Information Network)

United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)

United Nations: The World at Six Billion (POPIN)

United Nations World Population, 1998 (POPIN)

World demographic trends (UN Economic and Social Council, 10 Jan 2007) PDF

World Population (Arnon Medzini)

World Population Clock (Galen B. Huntington, UC Berkeley)

The World Population Clock (Germán & Nicolás Rodríguez, Princeton University)

World Population: A Guide to the WWW (Richard Jensen)

World Population Highlights: Key Findings from PRB's 2010 World Population Data Sheet (Jason Bremnet et al., Population Bulletin 65:2, Jul 2010) PDF

-- 2010 World Population Data Sheet (Carl Haub, Population Reference Bureau, 27 Jul 2010) PDF

-- 2010 World Population Clock (Population Reference Bureau)

World Population Information (U.S. Census Bureau)

World Population Profile: 1998
(Thomas M. McDevitt et al., U.S. Census Bureau)

World Population Prospects Population Database
(UN Population Division)

The World Village Project

Youth Quake: Population, fertility and environment in the 21st century (John Guillebaud, Optimum Population Trust, London, 13 Jun 2007) PDF

Zero Population Growth

See also Population and Demography

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