Acknowledgements »(pdf)

Preface » (pdf)

1. The Economic Costs of Ecological Deficits »
   Introduction »
   
   Deserts Invading China » (pdf)
   Introduction »
   Advancing Deserts Gaining Momentum »
   From Ecological Deficits to Dust Bowl »
   Spreading Deserts: The Response »
   The National Costs of Failure »
   The Worldwide Effect of Failure »
   
   Assessing the Food Prospect » (pdf)
   Introduction »
   Soil: Surplus to Deficit »
   The Fast Growing Water Deficit »
   The Changing Food Economy »
   The Soybean Factor »
   Future Food Security »
   
   Facing the Climate Challenge » (pdf)
   Introduction »
   The Rising Costs of Climate Change »
   Restructuring the Energy Economy »
   Building the Wind-Hydrogen Economy »
   Fixing the Market »
    
2. Eco-Economy Indicators: Twelve Trends to Track » (pdf)
   Population Growing by 80 Million Annually »
   Economic Growth Losing Momentum »
   Grain Harvest Growth Slowing »
   Fish Catch Leveling Off »
   Forest Cover Shrinking »
   Water Scarcity Spreading »
   Carbon Emissions Climbing »
   Global Temperature Rising »
   Ice Melting Everywhere »
   Wind Electric Generation Soaring »
   Bicylce Production Breaks 100 Million »
   Solar Cell Sales Booming »
    
3. Eco-Economy Updates »
   Energy and Climate » (pdf)
   U.S. Farmers Double Cropping »
   Corn and Wind Energy »
   The Rise and Fall of the Global Climate Coalition »
   Climate Change Has World Skating on Thin Ice »
   OPEC Has World Over a Barrel Again »
   Wind Power: The Missing Link in the Bush Energy Plan »
   
   Population and Health
   Population Growth Sentencing Millions to Hydrological Poverty »
   Africa is Dying -- It Needs Help »
   HIV Epidemic Restructuring Africa's Population »
   Obesity Threatens Health in Exercise-Deprived Societies »
   Iran's Birth Rate Plummeting at Record Pace »
   
   
   Food, Land, and Water
   Paving the Planet: Cars and Crops Competing for Land »
   Dust Bowl Threatening China's Future »
   Worsening Water Shortages Threaten China's Food Security »
   World's Rangelands Deteriorating Under Mounting Pressure »
   
   Forests, Fisheries, and Disappearing Species
   Fish Farming May Overtake Cattle »
   Ranching as a Food Source »
   Our Closest Relatives are Disappearing »
   Illegal Logging Threatens Ecological and Stability »
   
   Ecological Economics
   Green Power Purchases Growing »
   New York: Garbage Capital of the World »
   Tax Shifting on the Rise »
    

Notes » (pdf)