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Critical Trends

Global Change and Sustainable Development

  • Author: UN
  • Publication date: September 1997
  • Page count: 76
  • Language(s) in this book: English
  • Sales number: 97.II.B.1

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In an effort to bring to the international community, important and emerging problems which require urgent policy deliberation and action, this report surveys long-term trends in selected environmental and socio-economic issues. It focuses on the role of policy in influencing developments over the short and long term and the potential for achieving more sustainable patters of development in the future. It's coverage include population; energy and materials consumption; agriculture and food supply; water - a multifunction resource and human development.