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Acknowledgments | |
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List of Tables and Figures | |
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Foreword | |
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Challenges of the New Century | |
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Environmental Trends Shaping the New Century | |
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Replacing Economics with Ecology | |
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Crossing the Sustainability Threshold | |
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Crossing the Decline Threshold | |
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Two Keys to Regaining Control of Our Destiny | |
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Anticipating Environmental "Surprise" | |
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Tropical Rainforests: The Inferno Beneath the Canopy | |
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Coral: Death in the Warming Seas | |
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The Atmosphere: An Invisible Confluence of Poisons | |
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An Agenda for the Unexpected | |
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Redesigning Irrigated Agriculture | |
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Mounting Water Deficits | |
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The New Water Wars | |
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The Productivity Frontier | |
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Expanding Irrigation to Poor Farmers | |
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The Policy Challenge | |
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Nourishing the Underfed and Overfed | |
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A Malnourished World | |
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The Roots of Hunger | |
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The Creation of Overeating | |
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Diet and Health | |
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Societal Costs of Poor Diet | |
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Nutrition First | |
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Phasing Out Persistent Organic Pollutants | |
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The World of POPs | |
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Routes of Exposure and Environmental Fate | |
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Health Consequences | |
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The Policy Response to POPs | |
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Retooling Regulations, Business, and Agriculture | |
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Recovering the Paper Landscape | |
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The Paper Landscape | |
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Uncovering the Costs of Paper | |
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Reducing the Burden of Production | |
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Trimming the Costs of Consumption | |
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Designing a Sustainable Paper Economy | |
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Harnessing Information Technologies for the Environment | |
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An Expanding Global Network | |
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Squandering or Saving Natural Resources? | |
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Monitoring and Modeling | |
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Networking for Sustainable Development | |
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Information Tools for a Healthy Planet | |
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Sizing Up Micropower | |
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Miniaturized Machines | |
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Cool Power | |
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Is Smaller Better? | |
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Remaking Market Rules | |
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How Far, How Fast? | |
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Creating Jobs, Preserving the Environment | |
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The World of Work | |
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Boosting Resource Productivity | |
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Environment Policy: Job Killer or Creator? | |
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Restructuring Energy, Creating Jobs | |
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Durability and Remanufacturing | |
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Shifting Taxes | |
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Rethinking Work | |
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Coping with Ecological Globalization | |
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Trading on Nature | |
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The WTO Meets the Environment | |
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Greening the International Financial Architecture | |
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Innovations in Global Environmental Governance | |
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Notes | |
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Index | |