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Tables of Contents for The Earth Policy Reader
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
ix
Preface
xiii
The Economic Costs of Ecological Deficits
Deserts Invading China
7
22
Advancing Deserts Gaining Momentum
From Ecological Deficits to Dust Bowl
Spreading Deserts: The Response
The National Costs of Failure
The Worldwide Effect of Failure
Assessing the Food Prospect
29
30
Soil: Surplus to Deficit
The Fast-Growing Water Deficit
The Changing Food Economy
The Soybean Factor
Future Food Security
Facing the Climate Challenge
59
28
The Rising Costs of Climate Change
Restructuring the Energy Economy
Building the Wind-Hydrogen Economy
Fixing the Market
Eco-Economy Indicators: Twelve Trends to Track
Population Growing by 80 Million Annually
87
4
Economic Growth Losing Momentum
91
4
Grain Harvest Growth Slowing
95
4
Fish Catch Leveling Off
99
4
Forest Cover Shrinking
103
5
Water Scarcity Spreading
108
4
Carbon Emissions Climbing
112
4
Global Temperature Rising
116
3
Ice Melting Everywhere
119
5
Wind Electric Generation Soaring
124
5
Bicycle Production Breaks 100 Million
129
4
Solar Cell Sales Booming
133
10
Eco-Economy Updates
Energy and Climate
U.S. Farmers Double Cropping Corn and Wind Energy
143
5
The Rise and Fall of the Global Climate Coalition
148
5
Climate Change Has World Skating on Thin Ice
153
5
OPEC Has World Over a Barrel Again
158
6
Wind Power: The Missing Link in The Bush Energy Plan
164
5
Population and Health
Population Growth Sentencing Millions to Hydrological Poverty
169
5
Africa Is Dying---It Needs Help
174
6
HIV Epidemic Restructuring Africa's Population
180
5
Obesity Threatens Health in Exercise-Deprived Societies
185
5
Iran's Birth Rate Plummeting at Record Pace
190
5
Food, Land, and Water
Paving the Planet: Cars and Crops Competing for Land
195
5
Dust Bowl Threatening China's Future
200
5
Worsening Water Shortages Threaten China's Food Security
205
5
World's Rangelands Deteriorating Under Mounting Pressure
210
5
Forests, Fisheries, and Disappearing Species
Fish Farming May Overtake Cattle Ranching as a Food Source
215
6
Our Closest Relatives Are Disappearing
221
5
Illegal Logging Threatens Ecological and Economic Stability
226
5
Ecological Economics
Green Power Purchases Growing
231
5
New York: Garbage Capital of the World
236
5
Tax Shifting on the Rise
241
6
Notes
247