May 1997 – Pre Publication Draft Prepared by: Iddo K. Wernick and Jesse H. Ausubel Program for the Human Environment, The Rockefeller Universitywith the Vishnu Group for the Office of Energy…
This paper was first published in 1992 in the Annual Review of Energy and Environment, http://www.annualreviews.org . The paper posted here was scanned and re-typeset in HTML. Every effort…
Introduction Belief that environmentally responsible consumers and industries will benefit the natural environment comes easily. Establishing how much is elusive. Here we examine the technical and economic components of…
The following pages contain the full text and figures of an article which first appeared in the journal Technological Forecasting and Social Change, published by Elsevier Science Inc., New York,…
Synopsis Compartmentalized bureaucratic structures have obstructed the integration of understanding and management of the numerous elements that contribute to public health and environmental quality. This lack of integration has…
THEODORE S. GLICKMANResources for the Future, Washington, DC. INTRODUCTION No environmental issue seems to be attracting more attention in Washington these days than environmental justice, as evidenced by the…
I. Introduction and Definitions Laborers have sought to shrink hours of work since time immemorial. Farm machines and external energy inputs to agriculture, culminating in the cheap and dependable…
[NOTE This is a draft of a paper that has recently appeared (slightly modified) in the journal Consequences: The Nature and Implications of Environmental Change 1(3):2-15, 1995] A generation marks the average timespan…
INTRODUCTION Greenhouse warming vexes us because destruction threatens on one side if we do nothing to curtail emissions but bankruptcy threatens on the other if we do much. Can…
The following paper was published in Foreign Affairs (November/December 2000, Vol 79, Number 6, pp. 127-144). It is posted with the permission of the editors. Copyright 2000 Council on Foreign Relations SKINHEAD…