State of the World 2005: Redefining Global
Security
The Worldwatch Institute, 237 pages,
softcover $18.95. W.W. Norton & Company, 2005.
The
Worldwatch Institute’s latest annual report offers insight
into issues from nuclear weapons proliferation to renewable energy.
In a chapter on water, researchers provide examples in which locals
and religious organizations, as well as water managers, work
together on allocation and conservation. Other provocative chapters
include “Changing the oil economy” and “Peace through environmental
cooperation.”
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline State of the World 2005: Redefining Global Security.

