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WORLD INVESTMENT REPORT: TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS AND THE INFRASTRUCTURE CHALLENGE. UNCTAD, 24 September 2008. The World Investment Report has been published annually since 1991. The World Investment Report 2008 is the 18th report in a series published by UNCTAD; and its theme is “Transnational Corporations and the Infrastructure Challenge.” The report analyses the latest trends in foreign direct investment (FDI) and has a special focus on the role of transnational corporations (TNCs) in infrastructure industries. To access the report, please refer to http://www.unctad.org.
SUSTAINING LIFE. Edited by Eric Chivian and Aaron Bernstein, April 2008. Edited and written by Harvard Medical School physicians Eric Chivian and Aaron Bernstein, along with more than 100 leading scientists who contributed to writing and reviewing the book, Sustaining Life presents a comprehensive - and sobering - view of how human medicines, biomedical research, the emergence and spread of infectious diseases, and the production of food, both on land and in the oceans, depend on biodiversity. The book’s ten chapters cover everything from what biodiversity is and how human activity threatens it to how we as individuals can help conserve the world’s richly varied biota. Seven groups of organisms, some of the most endangered on Earth, provide detailed case studies to illustrate the contributions they have already made to human medicine, and those they are expected to make if we do not drive them to extinction. Drawing on the latest research, but written in language a general reader can easily follow, Sustaining Life argues that we can no longer see ourselves as separate from the natural world, nor assume that we will not be harmed by its alteration. Our health, as the authors so vividly show, depends on the health of other species and on the vitality of natural ecosystems. For further information, please refer to http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/LifeSciences/Ecology/?view=usa&ci=9780195175097.
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