概要

Urbanization is one of the critical global trends shaping the future. While great environmental challenges lie ahead, there are many innovative and effective approaches to environmental management undertaken by cities and communities around the world.

Executive Summary

世界资源1996-97is an authoritative primary reference volume on global environmental and natural resource conditions and trends for the United Nations, World Bank, and related international organizations. It is widely used by scientists, students, and nongovernmental organizations. As a printed book, it runs to 384 pages, including 162 pages of data tables covering 150 countries.

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p>The special supplement on The Urban Environment served as an official source book for the U.N. Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II). Copies were distributed as part of official conference materials to delegates, government leaders, embassy officials, NGOs, the media, businesses, and others participating in the Istanbul conference.

Part I: The Urban Environment

世界资源1996-97重点关注世界迅速扩展的城市地区面临的关键环境挑战。随着人类和经济活动的集中，城市地区可以成为强烈的环境退化的地点。然而，凭借其活力和规模效率，城市和城镇也有可能最大程度地减少对自然环境的压力并改善生活质量。实现这些机会将需要采取方法来调和经济增长，环境保护和社会正义的需求。

城市环境的特别部分。对世界城市面临的环境挑战的引人入胜的分析，例如：

  • 马尼拉，每四个人中有三个人居住在未经授权的住房中；
  • 墨西哥城，空气污染每年造成6,400人死亡，而所有儿童中有29％的血液含量不健康；
  • Philadelphia, where more than 20 percent of the population lives below the poverty level; and
  • 密集的雅加达人，其800万居民在没有水上污水系统的情况下居住。

Produced in close consultation with the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements, this 170-page section includes:

  • 在整个发展中和发达世界中的城市条件和趋势的比较，
  • 清醒地研究城市环境条件对人类健康和生产率的影响，
  • timely analysis of how urban transportation systems are contributing to -- or reducing -- environmental problems, and, finally,
  • a close-up look at creative strategies for improving the urban environment based on case studies from cities and communities across the globe.

第二部分：全球环境中的条件和趋势

As in previous volumes,世界资源1996-97调查重要的全球问题的条件和趋势，包括从人口到土地覆盖到水到能源的每个主要资源类别中的核心国家数据。该报告包括152个国家 /地区的自然资源数据。该报告的这一部分的重点是：深入了解海洋生物多样性的威胁，包括对处于危险的海岸线的新分析；讨论未来的能源需求及其对全球气候的影响；必威官网是真的吗并分析农业生产是否可以与世界不断增长的人口保持同步。