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	Introduction from the booklet BLUE GOLD The global water crisis and the commodification of the world's water supply A ...
		By the year 2025, as much as two-thirds of the world's population-predicted to have expanded by an additional 2.6 billion people-will be living in conditions of serious water shortage and one-third will be living in conditions of absolute water scarcity.
		Janet Abramovitz of the Worldwatch Institute adds that the Great Lakes have lost two-thirds of their once extensive wetlands and that less than 3 percent of the lakes' shorelines are suitable for swimming, drinking or supporting any aquatic life.
		The World Resources Institute reports that, after the Pak Mun Dam was built in Thailand, all 150 fish species that had inhabited the Mun River virtually disappeared.
	www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Water/Introduction_BG.html (3969 words)

	Newsroom
		Former World Resources Institute Vice President for Conservation Dr. Kenton Miller awarded the Bruno H. Schubert Environment Prize for lifetime dedication to national parks and conservation.
		World Resources 2005 challenges conventional approaches and stresses the urgent need to focus on local natural resources to address the crisis of poverty in all parts of the globe.
		The World Resources Institute (http://www.wri.org/) is an environmental think tank that goes beyond research to create practical ways to protect the Earth and improve people's lives.
	newsroom.wri.org (355 words)

	School 21st Century World - Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Some concerned agencies in the developed world have recognized these economic factors and are paying countries like Brazil to leave tropical rainforests in their pristine condition by buying national debt in return for the dedication of new nature reserves.
		Since the world is primarily a closed system, it makes sense that our use of its resources has merely changed the forms of the materials we have used.
		Sustainable resource management includes focusing on human behavior that encourages resource conservation activities and resource management activities that maintain both natural resources and the continued functioning of the ecosystem from which it is derived.
	www.design4effect.com /soc11/res.htm (9859 words)

	GLOBE USA - Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Resources for the Future, GLOBE USA, and the Henry M. Jackson Foundation jointly convened this briefing which explored the policy issues surrounding nuclear power generation.
		Resources for the Future, GLOBE USA, and the Henry M. Jackson Foundation jointly convened this briefing which explored the policy issues surrounding the development and growth of the market for alternative transportation fuels.
		Resources for the Future, GLOBE USA, and the Henry M. Jackson Foundation jointly convened this briefing which explored the opportunities and barriers to the growth in renewable energy sources for electric power generation.
	www.globeusa.org (674 words)

	About World Resources Institute (WRI)
		The World Resources Institute is an environmental think tank that goes beyond research to create practical ways to protect the Earth and improve peopleâs lives.
		The founders of the World Resources Institute (WRI) were aware of the urgent need for research and solutions to the many serious global environmental, resource, population and development problems around the world.
		To address these issues, WRI's founders saw the need for an institution that would be independent and broadly credible, not as an activist environmental membership organization, and that would carry out policy research and analysis on global environmental and resource issues and their relationship to population and development goals.
	about.wri.org (1224 words)

	TerraViva! World Resources v.2
		World Resources brings an unparalleled world of information about the Earth and its people directly to your desktop.
		World Resources lets you compare hundreds of environmental, social, and economic variables from 150 countries, giving you a choice of maps, graphs, tables, or text as output.
		World Resources provide portable access to a wealth of visual and statistical data.
	pubs.wri.org /pubs_description.cfm?PubID=3145 (259 words)

	Publications: Biodiversity and protected areas
		World Resources 2005 -- The Wealth of the Poor: Managing ecosystems to fight poverty.
		World Resources Institute and The World Conservation Union (IUCN).
		World Resources Institute, IUCN-The World Conservation Union, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in consultation with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
	biodiv.wri.org /publications.cfm (1385 words)

	World Resources 2002-2004: Decisions for the Earth: Balance, voice, and power
		Summarizes the preliminary findings and key messages of the report and was distributed at the World Summit on Sustainable Development meeting in Johannesburg, South Africa, August 26-September 4, 2002.
		Countries surveyed scored highest at providing their citizens with access to information, rated lower at providing opportunities to participate in decisions that affect the environment, and generally lagged on the provision of access to justice.
		The world of environmental governance is far from static.
	pubs.wri.org /pubs_pdf.cfm?PubID=3764 (724 words)

	NationMaster.com - Where Stats Come Alive!
		We want to be the web's one-stop resource for country statistics on anything and everything, whether it be soldiers, olympic medals, tourists, English speakers or wall plug voltages.
		World trade statistics are equally numerous in this newest update, everything from arts and antiques to zinc.
		Kidnappings, world poverty, banana imports, days off work, and many, many more - we are the world's largest country database, after all.
	www.nationmaster.com (2939 words)

	'In the Field'
		First, by working in partnership with an educational institution such as NRI we hope the radio series will have practical educational applications, and will be used by teachers and professionals around the world.
		If they are to improve their livelihoods, the world's poor will need to build on their strengths and take advantage of opportunities in new and often innovative ways.
		DFID therefore welcomes and supports this BBC World Service/Natural Resources Institute initiative and acknowledges the huge scope for many to learn that is offered by the widespread reach of the World Service.
	www.nri.org /InTheField (1176 words)

	World Resources 2000-2001
		This millennial edition of World Resources focuses on five critical ecosystems that have been shaped by the interaction of physical environment, biological conditions, and human intervention: croplands, forests, coastal zones, freshwater systems, and grasslands.
		The final step to good management advocated in the report is an “ecosystem approach” that explicitly recognizes the interaction and tradeoffs among these goods and services, as well as the political and social context in which environmental decisions are made.
		Like the eight previous editions of World Resources, the millennial edition also presents an overview of current global environmental trends in population, human well-being, food and water security, consumption and waste, energy use, and climate change.
	www.wristore.com /worres20.html (477 words)

	Water resources and freshwater ecosystems
		Many parts of the world will face increasingly dire conditions as populations grow, cities expand, and sources of clean, fresh water disappear.
		Provides an analysis of the state of the worldâs river basins, including the environmental goods and services they provide.
		Analyses the World Commission on Dams (WCD) as a model for global public policymaking on contentious issues of environment, development and justice.
	water.wri.org (390 words)

	NextBillion.net - Development Through Enterprise \| Eradicating Poverty through Profit
		More than half of the world’s population relies on biomass (dung, wood, or crop waste) for their cooking needs.
		To coincide with the forthcoming World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) on 16-18 November 2005, Alcatel and Maplecroft have produced a map of digital inclusion.
		At July's G8 summit world leaders pledged to double aid spending by 2010, and barely a month later agreed to cancel $40 billion of poor country debts.
	povertyprofit.wri.org (2550 words)

	Welcome to Global Forest Watch
		Frontier forests are the world's remaining large intact natural forest ecosystems - undisturbed and large enough to maintain all of their biodiversity.
		The agreement was released during the World Forestry Congress in Québec, Canada.
		From March 11-13, 2003, The Ministry of Environment and Forests of Cameroon (MINEF) and the World Resources Institute (WRI) jointly sponsored a workshop in Douala, Cameroon to provide recommendations that can be of used for the Cameroonian and other African governments to shape the outcomes of the ministerial AFLEG conference in Yaoundé, 14-18 October 2003.
	www.globalforestwatch.org (1515 words)

	Forests, grasslands and drylands links
		Seeks to influence, encourage and assist societies throughout the world to conserve the integrity and diversity of nature and to ensure that any use of natural resources is equitable and ecologically sustainable.
		Meridian Institute is a non-profit organization whose mission is to solve problems and resolve conflicts arising from the integration of environmental, health, economic, and social issues.
		The World Bank Group is one of the world's largest sources of development assistance.
	forests.wri.org /topic_links.cfm (2194 words)

	CIESIN Information Cooperative - Organizational Guide - WRI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The new generation of globally important environmental and resource problems that threaten the economic and environmental interests of the United States and other industrial countries and that have not been addressed with authority in their laws.
		The Institute's current areas of policy research include forests, biological diversity, sustainable agriculture, energy, climate change, atmospheric pollution, economic incentives for sustainable development, and resource and environmental information.
		WRI's World Resources report is a definitive reference on the global environment with the latest information on essential economic, population, and natural resource conditions and trends for nearly every country in the world.
	www.ciesin.org /IC/wri/wrihome.html (349 words)

	WDC-A for Human Interactions in the Environment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It is one of more than 40 centers comprising the World Data Center System, and is the first non-solar and non-geophysical WDC to be established by the ICSU.
		The database allows graphical display of the populations of many countries around the world using a rectangular grid of 20 minutes of latitude by 30 minutes of longitude (about 2,000 square kilometers at the equator).
		Indicators for each country include: size, growth, and structure of population; determinants of population growth; labor force; education and illiteracy; natural resources; income and poverty; expenditure on food, housing, fuel and power, transport and communication; and investment in medical care and education.
	www.gateway.ciesin.org /wdc (813 words)

	Natural Resources Institute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		An international conference on the development of biomass energy resources is to be held in Colombo, Sri Lanka, in August 2005 as an integral part of an NRI-managed EU-funded project on the use of wood and agricultural waste for energy production in South-East Asia.
		Together with the International Water Management Institute and the Faculty of Law of the University of Dar es Salaam, NRI is co-organizing a 3-day International Workshop on African Water Laws, hosted by the South African Department of Water Affairs and Forestry at the Willow Park Conference Centre near Johannesburg in the last week of January.
		The meeting was coordinated by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), the Natural Resources Institute (NRI) of the University of Greenwich and the Royal African Society (RAS) in association with key African and European partners.
	www.nri.org (913 words)

	MP3 - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		MP3 (or, more precisely, MPEG-1/2 Audio Layer 3) is an audio compression algorithm capable of greatly reducing the amount of data required to reproduce audio, while sounding like a faithful reproduction of the original uncompressed audio to the listener.
		In September 1998, the Fraunhofer Institute sent a letter to several developers of MP3 software stating that a license was required to "distribute and/or sell decoders and/or encoders".
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	www.music.us /education/M/MP3.htm (3180 words)

	Environmental Resources on the World Wide Web (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Resources available include references to fundamental texts and links to their publishers, links to other dendrochronology web sites and to bibliographic databases, information on software tools for the discipline, and job announcements.
		State of the World: Course taught on the Web (began January 5, 1998) "The Program in Global Sustainability at the University of California, Irvine is pleased to announce an on-line course, "State of the World", taught by Dr. Barry Costa-Pierce.
		Flora Shrode, is the Environmental Resources Editor for the Electronic Green Journal and works at the Hodges Library in Reference Services at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-1000, USA.
	egj.lib.uidaho.edu /egj08/shrode1.html (7126 words)

	AlterNet: WireTap: Is the Age of Green Economy Finally Here?
		In fact, a 2002 joint report by the United Nations Environment Programme, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and the World Resources Institute asserts that continued success in the global market will require that businesses give attention to social and environmental factors in addition to the conventional economic ones.
		The Institute for Local Self Reliance (ILSR) has been working for more than 30 years to promote self-sustaining community development that utilizes local resources as an antidote to the homogenizing forces of large-scale development.
		But as of yet, as the World Resources Institute's Tim Herzog puts it, there is a "fl hole" on the national level.
	www.alternet.org /wiretap/27743 (2481 words)

	BBC News \| SCI/TECH \| Humans stress ecosystems to the limit
		A report by the Washington DC-based World Resources Institute (WRI) says human activities have also begun to significantly alter the Earth's basic chemical cycles.
		The global assessment of the state of coastal, forest, grassland, freshwater and agricultural ecosystems was released in the Norwegian city of Bergen during a conference of world environment ministers.
		"Every measure used by scientists to assess the health of the world's ecosystems tells us that we are drawing on them more than ever and degrading them at an accelerating pace," Dr Klaus Topfer, executive director of the UN Environment Programme, said in a statement.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_926000/926063.stm (574 words)

	Environmental Resources on the Web (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		These two resources from The Pacific Institute provide information about and access to a wide range of sources on the impact of climate change on wildlife, habitat, and biodiversity.
		The list of online resources on global climate change is organized by topic area such as data and trends, potential impact, law and policy, educational sources, activist organizations, and an alphabetical list of online publications.
		Claiming to be the world's largest, this egroup promotes education, understanding, and awareness of the environment through honest and accurate reporting of local, regional and international environmental and development issues.
	egj.lib.uidaho.edu /egj13/shrode1.html (3601 words)

	Biodiversity and protected areas
		WRI President Jonathan Lash and World Bank chief scientist Robert Watson join OnPoint to discuss the ecosystem assessment and its critics, the media's coverage of climate change reports, and ending subsidies for agriculture and fisheries.
		A new WRI report warns that the world's fisheries face serious issues of ecosystem degradation, overfishing, and increasing consumer demand.
		Nearly two-thirds of coral reefs in the Caribbean are threatened by human activities, according to a report released today by scientists at the World Resources Institute (WRI).
	biodiv.wri.org (873 words)

	EMBARQ: Cities on the Move
		One of the unspoken challenges of the 21st century will be to stop mass poverty and environmental degradation from engulfing developing country cities of today and tomorrow.
		For the past three years EMBARQ – the transport and environment center founded by the World Resources Institute and the Shell Foundation– has risen to the challenge by establishing a string of sustainable mobility projects with major cities across the world.
		The event, hosted by the World Resources Institute, Earth Council Alliance, and Roots of Peace, brought attention to the accelerated rate of climate change, and the impact that urban transport activities have on this global trend.
	www.embarq.wri.org (1646 words)

	The World's Water - Links
		Institute for Groundwater Studies, The University of the Free State, South Africa
		List Focus: Sharing of experiences, resources and new developments on advocacy, social mobilization and programme communication on water, sanitation and related hygiene issues is the aim.
		List Focus: WaterForum is a free and open forum for discussion of surface water and groundwater resources issues; including drinking water, wetlands, wastewater, irrigation, recreational use, fisheries and wildlife use, aquaculture, coastal studies and oceanography, environmental and public health issues, contamination, computer modelling, and any other relevant water resources topics.
	www.worldwater.org /links.htm (1414 words)

	Information Resources World Level, Book Titles, A - C (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Their dialogues, as well as seminar participant responses and invited commentaries, are useful for students of the peace process both inside and outside of classrooms as a stimulus for discussion and action.
		The aim of the seminar series was to share and discuss the main findings with scholars and staff of the organisations and institutions that have contributed to the project, and by doing so, to create a platform for intra-institutional examinations of conflict prevention practices and institutional capacity building and training needs.
		ConflictWeb is a USAID-hosted resource for organizations and individuals involved in conflict prevention, mitigation, and management; humanitarian assistance; conflict resolution, recovery, and post-conflict reconstruction (transition towards a sustainable, secure and durable peace.) ConflictWeb seeks to provide the development practitioner with an entry point into the field of conflict by providing a variety of resources.
	www.peace.ca /infoworldbooksac.htm (8917 words)

	Center for Conservation biology
		But the prices of three of the five went down in the 1980s, in part because a recession in the first half of that decade slowed the growth of demand for industrial metals worldwide.
		Ironically, a prominent reason for the slower industrial growth was the doubling of world oil prices in 1979.[39] Indeed, the price of oil probably was a factor in the prices of metals in both years, being unprecedentedly high in 1980 and unprecedentedly low in 1990.
		He claims that the Ehrlich-Schneider list dwells on aspects of our environment for which the connection to human welfare is questionable.
	www.stanford.edu /group/CCB/Pubs/Ecofablesdocs/thebet.htm (1673 words)

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