State of the world, 1998 :  a Worldwatch Institute report on progress toward a sustainable society / 
editor, Linda Starke ; contributing researchers, Janet N. Abramovitz ... [et al.]. 
 - New York :  Norton,  c1998. 
 - xix, 251 p. :  ill. 
<br/><br/>The future of growth / Lester R. Brown -- Sustaining the world's forests / Janet N. Abramovitz -- Losing strands in the web of life / John Tuxill and Chris Bright -- Promoting sustainable fisheries / Anne Platt McGinn -- Struggling to raise cropland productivity / Lester R.  Brown -- Recycling organic wastes / Gary Gardner -- Responding to the threat of climate change / Christopher Flavin and Seth Dunn -- Curbing the proliferation of small arms / Michael Renner -- Assessing private capital flows to developing countries / Hilary F. French -- Building a new economy / Lester R. Brown and Jennifer Mitchell. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0393317277 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Economic history.<br/>Sustainable development.<br/>Environmental policy.