This book provides a comprehensive analysis of household consumption patterns in five key areas: food, tourism-related travel, energy, water and waste generation.

The 30 countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) represent the heart of the developed world. The OECD's database of economic, environmental and social statistics is respected as a guide to global development. This publication draws out trends from the statistics and looks at future prospects through a series of authoritative commentaries from leading members of the OECD, relevant NGOs and some of the world's leading professional service firms, banks and international corporations. Planned as an annual overview, the yearbook should be a useful reference source for boardrooms, government strategists, and decision-makers world-wide.

A succinct examination of the concept of sustainable development: what it means; how it is impacted by globalisation, production and consumption; how it can be measured; and what can be done to promote it.

This publication presents a data overview of the most recent round of the survey implemented in five areas (energy, food, transport, waste, and water) and 11 countries: Australia, Canada, Chile, France, Israel, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.

Food systems around the world face a triple challenge: providing food security and nutrition for a growing global population; supporting livelihoods for those working along the food supply chain; and contributing to environmental sustainability. Better policies hold tremendous promise for making progress in these domains.

The 2020 edition analyses tourism performance and policy trends across 51 OECD countries and partner economies. It highlights the need for coherent and comprehensive approaches to tourism policy making, and the significance of the tourism economy, with data covering domestic, inbound and outbound tourism, enterprises and employment, and internal tourism consumption.