Publisher's Synopsis
This is an annual guide to the crucial underlying trends that will determine the future. Facing pages of text, data and graphs make the information easy to find, use and understand. Special features of the book examine loss of primary resources, waste generation, income distribution, life expectancy, housing, hunger, safe water and the role of women.;Key indicators in this year's edition include food trends, agricultural resource trends, energy trends, atmospheric trends, economic trends, transport trends, environmental trends, social trends and military trends.