Product Description: Since 1949, FAO has convened groups of experts to evaluate current scientific knowledge in order to define human energy requirements and propose dietary energy recommendations for populations. The World Health Organization joined this initiative in the early 1960s, followed by the United Nations University in 1981...read more

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Product Description: This book brings together the personal experiences of individual UN volunteer specialists who served in a wide range of recent missions. Thomas G. Weiss and Larry Minear, co-directors of the Humanitarianism and War Project, place these first-hand accounts in a broader historical and institutional context and offer some reflections on the UN volunteer experience for the international community as a whole...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book explores the characteristics of families that strengthen the family unit and promote the development of its individual members. Following upon an earlier research project on the development of children in poverty, the present study examines how family social health improves the well-being of children and how family functioning interacts with national and international development...read more

Product Description: Looks at the most important processes linking climate and vegetation in the tropics in general and in the Amazon in particular. Through individual reviews by some of the world's leading scientists, it covers such subjects as modeling tropical meteorology and climate, tropical microclimatology, connections of vegetation to climate, and impacts of tropical deforestation on regional and global climate...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Originally published in 1984, this volume examines the consequences of increasing energy prices on agricultural production. It discusses whether it is possible to use agriculture to produce energy without endangering the food supply for the highly populated areas of the devloping world...read more