Elektron: Electrical Systems in Retrospect and Prospect

JH Ausubel, C Marchetti. Technological Trajectories and the Human Environment 110–134 1997 Also appeared in Daedalus 125(3):139-169, Summer 1996.

…electricity consumption will l ead to ultra-high voltage lines (for example, + 2 megavolts) with higher capacity (for example, 5 or 10 gigawatts) and continental range. The great advantage of continental and intercontinental connections is that…

Verification of International Environmental Agreements

JH Ausubel, DG Victor. Annual Review of Energy and the Environment 17: 1–43 1992

…Organizations. Berkeley: Univ. Calif. Press 6. Nye, J. S. 1987. Nuclear learning and U.S.-Soviet security regimes. Int. Organ. 41:371-402 7. Young, O. R. 1989. The politics of international regime formation: Managing natural resources…

Industrial Ecology: Some Directions for Research

IK Wernick, JH Ausubel. With the Vishnu Group, The Rockefeller University and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 1997

…Being Green, Harvard Business Review May-June 1994 pp. 46-52. 3M Corporation, 1993, 3M Waste Minimization Guidelines, 3M Corporation, St. Paul, MN. 3M Corporation, 1982, Low- or Non-Pollution Technology Through Pollution Prevention: An Overview, 3M…

Simulating the Academy: Toward Understanding Colleges and Universities as Dynamic Systems

JH Ausubel, R Herman, WF Massy, SV Massy. What Higher Education is Doing Right, W.F. Massy and J.W. Meyerson, eds., Princeton University 107–120 1997 120

…constituency, with media actions being illustrated with newspaper clippings or television stories. Public opinion also might be simulated as a single constituency; public opinion might drive regulatory decisions, and influence state funding decisions in game…

Chernobyl After Perestroika: Reflections on a Recent Visit

JH Ausubel. Technology in Society 14: 187–198 1992

…these international links antedating glasnost and perestroika, as well as the April 1986 accident. In the spring of 1990, reports showed patches of radiation effects persisting around Chernobyl. One might think regular lines…

CASE STUDY: Evaluating Environmental Equity in Allegheny County

…on the Distribution of Air Quality. Land Economics 54:278-297. Berry, B.J., ed. 1977. The Social Burdens of Environmental Pollution: A Comparative Metropolitan Data Source. Cambridge, MA: Ballinger. Bullard, R.D. 1990. Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class,…

Resources and Environment in the 21st Century: Seeing Past the Phantoms

JH Ausubel. World Energy Council Journal July: 8–16 1998

…not exhaust ourselves chasing phantoms, when the race before us is anyway long and hard. First, I offer a few words to describe the two multipliers of resource and environmental factors: Population and GDP per…

Nitrogen on the Land: Overcoming the Worries – lifting fertilizer efficiency and preserving land for nonfarming uses

CR Frink, PE Waggoner, JH Ausubel. Pollution Prevention Review 11 (3): 77–82 2001

…Agricultural Experiment Station in New Haven.  Paul E. Waggoner (paul.waggoner@po.state.ct.us) is an agronomist and meteorologist, and past director of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station.  Jesse H. Ausubel (ausubel@mail.rockefeller.edu) is an industrial ecologist and director…

The Census of Marine Life and the Role of Aquariums

JH Ausubel. Bulletin de l'Institut océanographique, Monaco 20 (1): 67 2001 Bulletin de l'Institut océanographique, Monaco, no spécial 20, fascicule 1

Address to the 5th International Aquarium Congress Musee Oceanographique, Monaco, 23 November 2000 Jesse H. Ausubel Program Director, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Good afternoon and many thanks to the 5th…