Iddo Wernick’s new paper “Is America dematerializing? Trends and tradeoffs in historic demand for one hundred commodities in the United States,” published in the Elsevier journal Resources Policy, available at https://bit.ly/4ahubvh, evokes the more than three decades of work on materials flows by members of our group, including:
JH Ausubel. The Environmental Trinity – Decarbonization, Dematerialization, Land-Sparing, also posted at The Honest Broker, 20 June 2024.
JH Ausubel. Nature Rebounds. The Breakthrough Journal 5, 2015 This article was originally delivered as a Long Now Foundation Seminar, San Francisco, 13 January 2015 and appeared under the title “The Return of Nature: How Technology Liberates the Environment” in the Journal of the Breakthrough Institute Spring 2015.
JH Ausubel, IK Wernick. The Shrinking Footprint of American Meat. The Breakthrough Journal 2017.
JH Ausubel, PE Waggoner. Dematerialization: variety, caution, and persistence. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105 (35): 12774–12779, 2008 10.1073/pnas.0806099105 D.
JH Ausubel, S Rao. Is Richer Greener?, 2 December 2008 presentation.
IK Wernick, R Herman, S Govind, JH Ausubel. Materialization and Dematerialization: Measures and Trends. Pp. 135-156 in Technological Trajectories and the Human Environment, JH Ausubel and HD Langford, (eds.). National Academy Press, Washington, DC, 1997
IK Wernick. Consuming materials: the American way. Pp. 111–122 in Technological Forecasting and Social Change vol. 53, 1996.
IK Wernick, JH Ausubel. National Materials Flows and the Environment. Pp. 463–492 in Annual Review of Energy and the Environment vol. 20, 1995 Republished in Measures of Environmental Performance and Ecosystem Condition, P. Schulze (ed.), National Academy, Washington, D.C., 1999, pp. 157-174.
IK Wernick. Dematerialization and secondary materials recovery in the U.S.. Journal of the Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society 46 (4): 39–42, 1994.
R Herman, SA Ardekani, JH Ausubel. Dematerialization. Pp 50-69 in J.H. Ausubel and H.E. Sladovich, eds., Technology and Environment, National Academy, Washington DC 1989. Also in Technological Forecasting and Social Change 37(4):333-348, 1990.