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A Brief Overview of the 'Big' Annual International SD Reports
United Nations Development Program. Human Development Report.
Contains two sections. Section one is topic specific with substantial analysis and tables. The topic for 1997’s report is ‘Poverty from a people-centered perspective.’ It offers a new poverty measure and a six-point plan for poverty eradication. Section two is the ‘Human Development Index’ with extensive economic, developmental, demographic and health data sets. Surveys over 170 countries.
www.undp.org/undp/hdro

United Nations Environment Program. GEO Report.
Presents information on the state of the global environment. Gives a global analysis of the environmental concerns in each of the earth’s seven major geographical regions, along with their major underlying causes. Concerns are dealt with by sector as follows: Land, Forests, Biodiversity, Water, Marine and Coastal Environments, Atmosphere and Urban and Industrial Environments. A region-based participatory process was used to produce the report. It also includes policy responses and directions.
grid2.cr.usgs.gov/geo1

World Bank. World Development Report.
Comprised of two sections. Section one gives a detailed overview of a particular topic (e.g. 1995 – 'Workers in an Integrated World', 1996 –'From Plan to Market'.). Section II contains the 'World Development Indicators', which mainly focus on economic dimensions. They include: Production, Domestic Absorption, Fiscal and Monetary Accounts, Core International Transactions, External Finance, Human Resources Development and Environmentally Sustainable Development. Surveys over 200 countries.
www.worldbank.org/html/dec/wdr/wdrhome.html

World Resources Institute. World Resources: A Guide to the Global Environment.
Comprised of two sections. Section one gives a detailed overview of a specific topic. e.g. The Urban Environment in 1996/97 and ‘People and the Environment’ in 1994/95. The second section contains data on ‘Global Conditions and Trends’ which is consistently presented in each edition. These include a mixture of economic, developmental and environmental data as follows: Basic Economic Indicators, Population and Human Development,Forests and Land Cover, Food and Agriculture, Biodiversity, Energy and Materials, Water and Fisheries and Atmosphere and Climate.
www.wri.org/wr-96-97

Worldwatch Institute. State of the World: A Worldwatch Institute Report on Progress toward a Sustainable Society.
Identifies and analyses key sustainable development trends from around the world. The analysis is issues-based with a strong environmental component. Ten issues are included each year. A companion book – ‘Vital Signs’ – provides ‘Key Indicators’ of current trends.