World Resources 1998-99

by Wri, Joyce L. Vedral, Ronte Vedral, et al.

World Resources 1998-99 focuses on the critical issue of environmental change and human health. Drawing on the latest scientific data, this section explores how environmental conditions contribute to the current burden of death and disease around the world and how that may change over the coming decades. World Resources 1998-99 looks at several critical trends that are changing the physical environment and thereby have the potential to influence human...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195214080
• ISBN13: 9780195214086
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 2.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.5" x 10.7"

Customer Reviews

A wonderful reference

This book is a wonderful reference book focused on the correlation between environmental change and human health issues world-wide. All of the sections are extremely well written, using clear, descriptive language. Each section also contains an ample amount of charts, tables, and graphs. While these are not as colorful as other books from the United Nations, the use of color is extremely effective. Just a glance at a chart yields its contents, a good time-saving technique for a researcher or student. Finally, there are over a hundred pages of data tables in the back. These tables make it easy to compare countries. Like the articles themselves, the explanations are clear and interesting. Overall, this book is a wonderful reference tool and would easily supplement a course on the global environment.