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71 Сведения о Дании взяты из публикации Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) “Interactive World Map” – см.: www.gwec.net/index. php?id=126, просмотрено автором 29 мая 2009 г., и из статьи: Flemming Hansen, “Denmark to Increase Wind Power to 50% by 2025, Mostly Offshore”, Renewable Energy Access , 5 December 2006; GWEC, Global Wind 2008 Report (Brussels: 2009), p. 13. Данные о потреблении электроэнергии, произведенной на ветровых станциях, в расчете на душу населения в Европе взяты из публикации European Wind Energy Association, “Wind Power on Course to Become Major European Energy Source by the End of the Decade”, press release (Brussels: 22 November 2004); данные о нагревании воды с помощью солнечной энергии в Китае взяты из публикации: Werner Weiss, Irene Bergmann, and Roman Stelzer, Solar Heat Worldwide: Markets and Contribution to the Energy Supply 2007 (Gleisdorf, Austria: International Energy Agency, Solar Heating & Cooling Programme, May 2009), p. 20; данные по Исландии взяты из публикации: Iceland National Energy Authority and Ministries of Industry and Commerce , Geothermal Development and Research in Iceland (Reykjavik: April 2006), p. 16; доля электричества рассчитана Earth Policy Institute на основе данных об установленных мощностях, опубликованных в статье: Ruggero Bertani, «World Geothermal Generation in 2007”, GHC Bulletin , September 2007, p. 9; коэффициент использования мощностей взят из статьи: Ingvar B. Fridleifsson et al., “The Possible Role and Contribution of Geothermal Energy to the Mitigation of Climate Change, опубликованной в сборнике: O. Hohmeyer and T. Trittin, eds., IPCC Scoping Meeting on Renewable Energy Sources, Proceedings (Luebeck, Germany: 20–25 January 2008), p. 5; данные о совокупном производстве электричества взяты из публикации “World Total Net Electricity Generation, 1980–2005” в сборнике International Energy Annual 2005 (Washington, DC: 13 September 2007), изданном министерством энергетики США и Американским инженерным институтом.

72 Se-Kyung Chong, “Anmyeon-do Recreation Forest: A Millennium of Management” – в книге: Patrick B. Durst et al., In Search of Excellence: Exemplary Forest Management in Asia and the Pacific , Asia-Pacific Forestry Commission (Bangkok: FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, 2005), pp. 251–259; Daniel Hellerstein, “USDA Land Retirement Programs” – см. в публикации: USDA, Agricultural Resources and Environmental Indicators 2006 (Washington, DC: July 2006); USDA, ERS, Agri-Environmental Policy at the Crossroads: Guideposts on a Changing Landscape , Agricultural Economic Report No. 794 (Washington, DC: January 2001); USDA, op. cit. note 6.

73 Molly O’Meara, Reinventing Cities for People and the Planet , Worldwatch Paper 147 (Washington, DC: Worldwatch Institute, June 1999), p. 47; City of Amsterdam, “Bike Capital of Europe” – см. www.toamsterdam. nl, просмотрено автором 2 июля 2009 г.; Serge Schmemann, “I Love Paris on a Bus, a Bike, a Train and in Anything but a Car”, New York Times , 26 July 2007; Transport for London, Central London Congestion Charging: Impacts Monitoring (London: various years).

К ГЛАВЕ 2

1 Lester R. Brown. The Twenty-Ninth Day (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1978).

2 Сведения о площади зернового клина в США взяты из электронной базы данных министерства сельского хозяйства США Production, Supply and Distribution – см.: www.fas.usda.gov/psdonline (данные обновлены 9 апреля 2009 г.). Цифры, характеризующие разрушение почвенного слоя, рассчитаны автором на основе данных, приведенных в статье: Mohan K. Wali et al. “Assessing Terrestrial Ecosystem Sustainability”, Nature & Resources , October-December 1999, pp. 21–33, и в публикации: World Resources Institute (WRI), World Resources 2000–2001 (Washington, DC: 2000).

3 Электронная база данных Продовольственной и сельскохозяйственной организации ООН (FAO) ResourceSTAT – cм.: faostat.fao.org (данные обновлены в апреле 2009 г.); Lester R. Brown, “Melting Mountain Glaciers Will Shrink Grain Harvests in China and India ”, Plan B Update (Washington, DC: Earth Policy Institute, 20 March 2008).

4 Jacob W. Kijne, Unlocking the Water Potential of Agriculture (Rome: FAO, 2003), p. 26.

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