Annual analysis of important economic, environmental and social trends. Among trends covered for the first time are frontier forests, plantation forestry, satellite launches, minerals exploitation, small arms proliferation and female education.
Food trends; agricultural resource trends; energy trends; atmospheric trends; economic trnds; transportation trends; communications trends; social trends; military trends; forest frontiers; forest plantations; vertebrate trends; recycling organic wasts; nitrogen levels; urban air pollution; private capital flows; tax shifts; fossil fuel subsidies; paper recycling; cigarette taxes; minerals exploration; environmental markets; female education; sanitation; small arms proliferation. (Part contents.)