Critical Consumption Trends and Implications - Degrading Earth's Ecosystems (WRI, 1999, 72 pages)

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Preface

Acknowledgments

Executive Summary

I. Food Consumption and Disruption of the Nitrogen Cycle

1. Patterns of World Food Consumption and Production

2. Agriculture, Environmental Impacts, and the Global Nitrogen Cycle

3. "Fertilizing the Earth"

4. Looking Ahead: Growing the Food We Need

5. How Much More Fertilizer Will the World Consume?

6. Possible Solutions

II. Wood Fiber Consumption and the World's Forests

1. Global Forestry and the Forest Products Sector

2. Where Does Our Wood Come From?

3. Key Trends in Wood Fiber Production and Consumption

4. Wood Fiber Consumption and Environmental Impacts

5. Looking Ahead: How Much More Wood Fiber Will the World Need?

6. How Much More Fiber Can the Earth Provide?

7. Where Might the "Extra 30 Percent" Come From?

8. Possible Solutions

III. Fish Consumption and Aquatic Ecosystems

1. Global Fish Consumption

2. Unfolding Trends in the Global Fisheries Industry

3. A Renewable Resource in Decline

4. Current Fishing Practices and Ecosystem Impacts

5. Looking Ahead: Future Demand and Constraints on Supply

6. Possible Solutions

About the Authors

World Resources Institute